As State of the Union speeches go, President Obama's 2014 appearance before the joint chambers of congress went well. Of the people wh...

Tonight's the President's State of the Union address and the big news on the right is that the president plans to use the lawful p...

You may need a refresher on Virginia state Sen. Dick Black, a far-right Republican who just doesn't get how marital rape can be a thin...

Let's face it, there are really two reasons why Republicans want to put up significant obstacles to voting, The first is the obvious o...

[ Click to Enlarge ] 67% of Americans are godless commies who hate capitalism and freedom. That is, if you use the metrics offered by ri...

It's one of the gun lobby's and firearms industry's most successful scams; the "fear buying" marketing campaign. The...

It's been said that a Republican is just a liberal who's been mugged. Of course, it tends to be Republicans who say this, since it...

The Republican Party just lost a voter. Or, at least, a member. In a post to his blog, GOProud co-founder Jimmy LaSalvia announces that ...

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...

John Boehner will never be described as a Profile in Courage. Yesterday, Boehner issued a statement following a senate cloture vote to a...

Maybe it got lost in the annual post-Holiday news outage, but Yahoo! News reported on the second day of the new year that a study by the ...

Hey, remember how the modest two year budget deal hammered out by Paul Ryan and Patty Murray was a sign that insane partisanship was on it...

You're familiar with the narrative by now. One year after the Sandy Hook Massacre, where gunman Adam Lanza took the lives of twenty yo...

NBC News : A year that began with President Barack Obama riding high after his re-election victory is ending with him in the biggest ...

There are three things I can pretty much guarantee happened this morning; the sun came up, newspapers were delivered to doorsteps, and Pau...

Bad news for the people who think the Second Amendment term "well-regulated" means "not to be regulated." A long-stand...

It's being called the relaunch of Healthcare.gov. But the fact that 100,000 people signed up in October -- while the headlines were ...

For me at least, the most interesting story over the holiday weekend was Black Friday mayhem. Running the search term "Walmart Police...

The official police investigation into the killer behind the Sandy Hook massacre has closed and the final report offer frustratingly few a...

A piece in the New York Times this weekend compared the economic fates of Wisconsin and Minnesota, two states that were in roughly simila...