Over 20 states have passed some version of Stand Your Ground laws authorizing individuals to use deadly force in self-defense. According to FindLaw.com, “Florida passed the first such law in 2005, generally allowing people to stand their ground instead of retreating if they reasonably believe doing so will “prevent death or great bodily harm.” However, […]
Reminiscent of the move to cancel a speaking engagement by Ann Coulter after the president of Fordham University blasted her for being “hateful and needlessly provative,” the all-female Scripps College has rescinded their invitation to conservative columnist George Will for a lecture series exposing students to a conservative point of view. The decision was based […]
Currently, at least 29 states have laws criminalizing parents’ failure to protect their children from abuse. As BuzzFeed reports, in some states “the crime is known as injury to a child “by omission, in others it is called “permitting child abuse” or “enabling child abuse.” BuzzFeed goes on to explain that In addition, prosecutors in […]
Tea Party favorite Ben Carson defended suspended running back Ray Rice during an interview with the ultra-conservative NewsMax TV. Alternet put it best when they noted, “As Americans react with horror to the newly released video of Ray Rice assaulting his fiancee in a Las Vegas elevator, there’s one prominent voice defending the former running […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore into former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday during an interview with Yahoo News’ Katie Couric. Cantor, who resigned from Congress last month after a devastating primary defeat, has taken a job as the vice chairman and managing director at investment bank Moelis. As Yahoo reports, Warren took Cantor […]