Our new Republican House made demolishing the Obama healthcare bill their top priority during their campaign and will fight their hardest to make that demolition a reality now that they hold office. We all know the reasons: tea partiers want the government out of their Medicaid, seasoned republicans know they just need to trumpet their [...]

Last week, Real Time With Bill Maher featured, among other guests, Matthew Continetti, editor of the Weekly Standard. Normally, another right wing talking head spitting rhetoric on television wouldn’t be anything to comment on, but Continetti’s arguments were enough to make me smack my head into my laptop monitor a few extra times than normal. [...]

America’s health care shouting match is igniting a new debate on toting weapons at protests. When I think of weapons at a rally, I’m often reminded of some news coverage the night demonstrators (full disclosure – myself included) took Lake Shore Drive in 2003 during the protests against the Iraq war. Over 800 demonstrators and [...]