After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with the usual lies, this wasn't that hard to do. And yet, the Associated Press ...read more

In an attempt to maintain the peace around the Thanksgiving table last week, the Kansas City Star recirculated a column by the Washington Post's Republican opinion writer Marc Thiessen. I stumbled across it on Facebook and the title alone told me exactly what the column would ...read more

There's an annoying habit among people to bitch and moan about "Congress" as if everything that's going wrong in our government is somehow the fault of all 100 Senators and all 435 congresspeople. People love to joke about how great it would be to just get rid of all of them. ...read more

Buzzfeed broke the story today that the Trump administration has been waging a secret war on marijuana, aiming to "portray the drug as a national threat," regardless of what the amassing scientific evidence shows about the plant's medicinal qualities: The White House has ...read more