Protesters interrupted a Tuesday morning speech by former vice-president Dick Cheney, calling him a war criminal. The former vice-president was speaking out against the Iran nuclear deal at American Enterprise Institute when unnamed protesters started shouting at Cheney. One woman, thought to be associated with the activist group Code Pink, stood up and attempted to […]
Bernie Sanders’ record of anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s has been well-documented. As ABC News reported earlier this week, “While at the University of Chicago, he was a member of several progressive peace organizations, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Student Peace Union” and “as a congressman and later senator, Sanders […]
We Created This and We Have to Fix It *sigh* This is what we have done. My faith, Christianity, says that women are second class. My “programming” says that they are there to keep the home…and by extension, be mothers first and women second. Western Culture is finally breaking out of the Puritan view that […]
Morgan Freeman and John Grisham are calling on the state of Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle flag from the official state flag. The two were joined by dozens of other prominent Mississippi natives who made the demand in a full-page ad in the Monday print version of the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger. “It’s simply not fair, […]
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has come under recent scrutiny for his position regarding gun rights and what some are characterizing as indifference to civil rights and racial justice. Most recently, Sanders came under fire while speaking at last weekend’s annual meeting of Netroots Nation, the country’s largest gathering of progressive activists when a group of […]