Department Of Justice
Jeff Sessions Just Officially Reignited The War On Drugs
In recent years many people across the political spectrum have come to realize that the so-called "war on drugs" has been a completely futile effort that has destroyed lives, broken apart families, and accomplished nothing other than filling prisons with many Americans who ...read more
Latest Conservative Freakout Is Embarrassing Even By Their Standards
You may remember that conservatives kept it super-classy at a Fourth of July parade in Nebraska by featuring an "Obama Presidential Library" float mocked up to look like an outhouse, complete with zombie effigy. People objected to the float (including a woman from Kenya, don't ...read more
The White House's Indefensible Attack on Journalists
It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Applied here, it would work something like this: Fox News isn't a legitimate ...read more
International Women's Day Should Matter More in the US
In all the hoopla about James O'Keefe and Rand Paul's filibuster (still support him on that), I completely forgot aout International Women's Day (IWD), which was yesterday. I was impressed to read the list of countries who now recognize the day. IWD has been observed since the ...read more