The Republican Party rejects background checks on guns

Senator Ron Johnson, of our state of Wisconsin, has blood on his hands, along with other Republican Senators. He seemed that doing the bidding of the gun makers (the major benefactors of the NRA) by voting against universal background checks on all gun sales in America, was...

Beyonce and Jay-Z spent their 5th wedding in Cuba

Beyonce and Jay-Z spent their 5th wedding anniversary celebrating in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is a dictatorship and has been so even before Castro was in power. We looked the other way during the Batista regime, but for decades we have had sanctions on trade and travel by Americans...

Sex with pastor is god's plan and Senator changes mind on marriag

Issues in the News: I. Republicans in a state legislative committee in Idaho have passed a resolution calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban any and all mentions of pre-maritial sex on television (even if only implied) in most hours of the day. Indeed, the...

Taxpayers forced to pay for churches and Marco Rubo lies

On February 13 our House of Representatives, a secular institution supposedly upholding our secular Constitution, passed HR 592, a bill to to impose taxpayer money to go towards the rebuilding of churches (or other houses of worships). It wasn't even close, it was by a...

Republican Senators vote against rights for the Disabled

38 Republican Senators voted against the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The no votes included Wisconsin's own U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. Less than 1/4 of Republican Senators voted for the Convention, even though retired Republican...

GOP congressman Akin again puts foot in mouth and theocrat judge

You might remember Republican Missouri Congressman Todd Akin. The man running for the U.S. Senate from that state, who believes that women who suffer "legitmate rape" don't get pregant, even though there are about 30,000 pregnancies per year to women who have been raped....

Politican targeted for being gay and police violence at Occupy

Thoughts on a few different stories: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, is running for the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race against former governor Tommy Thompson. Thompson's campaign, though campaign senior adviser and spokesman Brian Nemoir, stated in an e-mail...

Republican believes rapes don't cause pregancies?

Todd Akin, a Republican congressman from Missouri who is running for the U.S. Senate for that state, stated this during an interview: "From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," said Akin said of pregnancy caused by rape. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female...

Why does creationism go hand in hand with rejection of global war

James Inhoffe, an anti-gay rightwinger U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, does not believe in global warming. On a conservative radio show, he made the statement, while giving a statistic, that many less Americans believe in global warming caused by humans, than a few years ago....

Republicans do the bidding of the oil companies?

Republicans stated that we need the Keystone Oil pipeline to ship oil from Canada to the U.S. O.K., I thought we needed to improve environmental standards in regards to the pipeline, especially when it comes to important underground water that it might potentially pollute,...