In case you hadn't heard, Almost 20,000 public school teachers in West Virginia have been on strike since Thursday, closing down 680 schools and keeping home more than 277,000 students. They're not doing this for fun. It began on Thursday, a day after West Virginia Governor Jim ...read more

If you still subscribe to the school of thought that "both parties are the same," first, I invite you to take a long walk off a short pier. Second, please read the following summary of how Republicans govern when they have all the power and how they use that power to devastate ...read more

Little Timmy sits down at his desk. Today he is learning science and he opens his textbook, the King James Bible, as the teacher begins to read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...." Little Timmy goes home that day with the knowledge that the Earth is only ...read more