The It Gets Better Project brings hope to the plight of LGBT youth in America. The project was founded by American author, journalist, editor and media pundit, Dan Savage and his husband, Terry Miller to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. The project was created in response to the suicide of Billy Lucas and the growing […]
Last Thursday, President Obama gave the keynote speech at the BlogHer 2012 Conference via internet video conference call. For those of your unfamiliar with BlogHer, here is an exerpt from their website: “BlogHer is a community and media company created in partnership with women in social media…. Today, BlogHer is the largest community of women […]
Thursday, Jon Stewart discussed the recent controversy surrounding Chik-fil-A and this week’s Appreciation Day. Jon notes that the recent call by the mayors of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco have given right-wing conservatives a legitimate First Amendment complaint: “You know how the right is always complaining about the government persecuting them for their beliefs? (Mistaking […]
Following a campaign appearance in Dover, New Hampshire, on October 6, 2007, Mitt Romney was confronted head-on with the issue of medical marijuana. A member of the audience, Clayton Holton, spoke with Romney about his muscular dystrophy commenting that his doctors said he was “living proof medical marijuana works“. Romney noted that synthetic marijuana was […]
Chris Matthews and his guests discussed the Tea Party and its ultra conservative politics and its influence on the Republicans in the 2012 elections. Chris Matthews began with the following monologue: “Let me start tonight with this. Huey Long once that ‘fascism – when it comes to America will call itself anti-fascism’. So what do […]