This week, outgoing Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he would not rule out running for president in 2020. While a tantalizing prospect, should Beto run, he may be missing an opportunity to build something else far more powerful in the long run.... To continue reading this article, ...read more
One of the main reasons I became a journalist was to push back against the disinformation I saw coming from Bernie Sanders supporters when he first entered the race for President in 2015. Whenever I would post even the mildest critique of him online, an army of white, ...read more
For many Americans it is increasingly difficult to see a way to hold Donald Trump accountable for any of this actions. The president breaks laws and incinerates political norms on a daily basis and no one appears to be able to do anything about it. The Republican controlled ...read more
Question: How do you stop people from getting shot in church? Do you: a) Stop people taking guns to church b) Pray that people with guns in church don't accidentally shoot fellow worshippers. c) Bring more guns to church If you answered 'b' or 'c', congratulations! You are a ...read more
In a relative sense the American Civil War wasn't that long ago. Soon after I was born, my parents took me to visit my great grandfather, Charles Davis, who everyone called "Pappy." Pappy was living in a VA hospital in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh and it was his 93rd ...read more
Rick Santorum won Tuesday's Alabama and Mississippi GOP presidential primaries, with Southern conservatives again rejecting Mitt Romney, who earlier in the day said Santorum's campaign was reaching a "desperate end." Newt Gingrich, who had staked his campaign on a Southern ...read more
Yes, you heard right. Matt Taibbi on Anita McLemore who was sentenced to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application to get food stamps: Apparently in this country you become ineligible to eat if you have a record of criminal drug offenses. States ...read more
The south fails yet again. You've got to be kidding me. A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Mississippi Division of Sons of ...read more