In a bold and potentially historic attempt to stem the increase in mass gun violence, President Barack Obama unveiled on Wednesday the most sweeping effort at gun control policy reform in a generation. The proposal, which comes at the end of a month-long review process spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, is broken down into [...]

A smoothie shop in Vernal, Utah is sparking outrage over an unorthodox pricing structure that charges liberals an extra dollar. The shop, tellingly named the I Love Drilling Juice and Smoothie Bar, is owned by George Burnett, a pro-oil and gas activist. He donates the extra money to conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation. “I love this place. [...]

Though the Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said “It is well-balanced, it protects the Second Amendment,” some of the Tea Party demagogues who infest the Republican Party raised the usual NRA stink in opposition. They failed to stop passage of the bill and Governor Cuomo will sign it. New York’s Assembly on Tuesday easily passed [...]

Conservative rage over gun control has reached a fever pitch before any new legislation or executive orders have even been put on the table. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are expected to reveal their new approach on guns this week, which is expected to include significant action via executive order that would [...]

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” ~Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  In case you didn’t get it. un·e·quiv·o·cal /ˌəniˈkwivəkəl/ Adjective Leaving no doubt; unambiguous: “an unequivocal answer”. Synonyms unambiguous – definite – clear – distinct – explicit Some things are just fact; water is wet, fire is hot and climate change [...]

“Now the gloves are off, cyber rebels! … We will picket the funeral, the LORD willing, so that in that Great Day of His Wrath, your blood is not on our hands.” ~Westboro Church tweeted HERE Aaron Swartz was a guy who changed the world for the better; we wrote about his death HERE.  And so [...]

“The issue here is whether or not America pays its bills. We are not a deadbeat nation. And so there’s a very simple solution to this: Congress authorizes us to pay our bills.” ~President Obama  President Obama has taken all of the creative options off the table relative to the debt ceiling issue – there [...]

President Obama intends to push lawmakers to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for most illegal immigrants, according to a report in the New York Times. The report, citing senior administration officials, said the White House would press Senate Democrats for action on the measure in the coming months. Despite coming [...]

Here’s how Keith Ratliff’s mind worked The kind of paranoid gun nut that takes his gun into the movies hoping he’ll get a chance to kill someone – and be a hero. Did you a lot of good, eh, Bubba? In a rather macabre bit of irony, a self-professed “gun nut” – Keith Ratliff – [...]

On Friday, the world lost internet pioneer and open information activist Aaron Swartz to suicide at the age of 26. At the time of his death, Swartz was under indictment for logging into JSTOR, a database of scholarly articles, and rapidly downloading those articles with the intent to make them public. If Swartz had lived to be convicted of the charges [...]