Now, I know this man. I work with him. I know what鈥檚 in his heart. He鈥檚 a decent honest person who made a mistake. We鈥檝e all made mistakes.Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking about Majority Whip Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise may have made a mistake 12 years ago, but Republicans are ...
Anybody with a keyboard, it seems, published their 2014 鈥淵ears in Review.鈥滱nd if they didn鈥檛 review the year, they compiled 鈥淭op 10鈥� lists of: world news stories; local news stories; political news stories; financial news stories; movies; TV shows; sporting events, or technological ...
The murders of two New York City police officers last weekend is another grim reminder that there鈥檚 a painfully persistent racial divide in this country.Not the murders themselves -- their aftermath.To be clear, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were the victims of the acts of a raging ...
I don鈥檛 have to tell you this, but there鈥檚 always lots of news.Last week, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion dollar budget deal; madmen attacked innocent people in Sydney, Australia and in Pakistan; there鈥檚 a thaw in the 60 year hostilities between Cuba and the United States, and ...
Torture!Emphatically saying something doesn鈥檛 happen, is certainly no guarantee that it doesn鈥檛.Despite claims by the architects of the War on Terror, that they weren鈥檛 involved in practices that are abhorrent to people all over the planet, there鈥檚 some proof they weren鈥檛 being ...
I鈥檓 a staunch liberal. I believe that anybody who isn鈥檛 one is always wrong.I take that back. I鈥檇 like to apologize for making that statement. I apologize if I offended anybody by it. That鈥檚 what you鈥檇 call a 鈥渘on-apology apology.鈥濃�淣on-apology apologies鈥� are the current ...