Poisonous gasbag Alex Jones has already lost the defamation suit brought by families of children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary; the only purpose of a Connecticut trial is to determine the damages he’ll pay for defaming them by saying the murder of 20 first graders and six edu…
Poisonous gasbag Alex Jones has already lost the defamation suit brought by families of children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary; the only purpose of a Connecticut trial is to determine the damages he’ll pay for defaming them by saying the murder of 20 first graders and six edu…
Peter Thiel, a GOP megadonor and technology billionaire, is a controversial figure within conservative circles. The early investor in Facebook and PayPal co-founder also was an instrumental donor to Trump-backed Senate candidates in Arizona and Ohio.
Who gave those ex-cons that Florida just arrested the crazy idea they could legally vote? Turns out: the state of Florida.
Third graders who attend public school in North Carolina learn about the solar system and volcanoes in science class. Fourth graders study fossils.
Yes, there is a border crisis.
A new book about former President Donald Trump’s relationship with the Pentagon’s top military commanders offers a vivid glimpse into the way he misconstrued the military as just another asset in his political inventory, a tool to be used for whatever personal objective he sought. And he act…
One year ago, Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in part because the U.S. had hoped for the best after withdrawing its forces from the country, without adequately preparing for the worst. In dealing with the Taliban today, President Joe Biden’s administration can afford no such illusions.
California legislators did a brave thing last week when they approved a proposal to allow three California cities – including Los Angeles – to open facilities where addicts can self-administer illicit drugs without fear of arrest or a fatal overdose.
Alex Jones disgraces all that’s good about the First Amendment.
Monday was a huge win for the North Carolina Green Party. After the party was removed from the ballot in 2021, conducted a petition effort to return and filed a First Amendment rights lawsuit, the leftist third party was unanimously certified by the North Carolina Board of Elections Monday m…
‘Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
This week the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up the Right to Contraception Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Kathy E. Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, establishes a federal right to contraception – meaning women would have the right to use birth control and medical…
We can’t disagree with the anger aimed at Joe Manchin for dragging the Senate along for months before finally admitting there’s no pared-down version of a Build Back Better bill he will support after all. Manchin uses inflation as an excuse but simultaneously says he can’t countenance raisin…
Jill Biden is supposed to be the responsible one.
The Text of the Second Amendment
In May, weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court discarded the law to return abortion policy to the states, Missouri lawmakers talked about putting an abortion ban in the state constitution.
Few issues within America’s dysfunctional health care system are more pressing than the astronomical price of insulin – access to which is, for millions of Americans, literally a matter of life or death. Congress is finally moving toward approving legislation that would partially address the…
File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of “breakthrough” gun safety proposals into actual legislation. Though we are decidedly underwhelmed by the ideas – inclu…
File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of “breakthrough” gun safety proposals into actual legislation. Though we are decidedly underwhelmed by the ideas – inclu…
Take a deep breath, America. We’ve made serious progress against cigarette smoking. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23 percent of adults were smokers in 2000. By 2020, the rate had fallen to 12.5 percent. Teen use of traditional cigarettes has plummeted from…
