Somewhere between 11 AM to 2 PM today, I can expect to leave the dreaded polar vortex. We expect a balmy high temperature of 18 degrees Fah...

In order to be a global warming denying wingnut, you have to leave logic at the door. This is why climate-deniers crawl out of the woodwor...

As you most likely know, fast food workers in several cities staged a strike yesterday . The main demand: a rate of pay of $15 an hour -- ...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by...

This weekend " tens of thousands " of people gathered in the nation's capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civ...

I saw the article yesterday, but I kind of set it aside. In it, the Boston Globe reported that the Boston Marathon bombing has all the ea...

It's a shocking and terrible crime. A blast that was almost certainly terrorism (run of the mill mass murder can't be ruled out y...

Same-sex relationships make for good families. It's science. Huffington Post : With the Supreme Court poised to hear arguments on sa...

If you take a swing through the rightwing news media, one thing jumps out at you immediately -- what you find there is virtually indistingui...

After months of soul-searching and wandering the wilderness, the Republican Party has decided it needs to change. Well, not change really, s...

Today is the day that Hillary Clinton will no longer be Secretary of State. No more globehopping behind a desk bolted to the deck of a C-17....

If the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer serves any useful purpose at all, it's to prove conclusively that the American Fa...

I guess my physics are a little rusty. Can momentum be the same as downward velocity? If so, Mitt Romney has plenty of momentum. It's ju...

The Republican break with reality is nearly complete. From the historic failure if trickle-down economics to global warming to evolution to ...

Anyone who thinks the Romney campaign isn't in trouble just hasn't been paying attention. While Mitt's 47-percent controversy is...

It wasn't long after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded and six people were killed in Tucson that we learned that the real ...

Monday, a pipe bomb was discovered in a backpack left along the route of a Martin Luther King Day unity march in Spokane, Washington. The b...

One thing I've believed for a long time is something I believe is obvious -- you don't get to decide what other people find offensiv...

Martin Luther King was a Republican. This statement was all the rage a year ago, when it was extremely important to remember that Tea Partie...

Civility is all the rage in Washington. At least, for now. Not surprisingly, the voices speaking most about civility equate it with a failed...