Month: June 2015

NRA Wins Again

Dateline: 6/24/15 – The House Appropriations Committee GOP Panel Votes to Keep Funding Ban for Gun Violence Research. A GOP-led panel blocked a proposal Wednesday that would have reversed a nearly 20-year-old ban on...

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Drought is bad all over

As bad as the drought in California and the West has been, as bad as the depletion of water resources in our country has been, drought conditions in many parts of the world are far worse from the standpoint of human health and...

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Same Sex Marriage Legal in all 50 States

In a 5-4 decision, authored by Justice Kennedy, same sex marriage bans all across the country have been held unconstitutional today. This is a very good day for everyone who believes in the fundamental dignity of all human...

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Stay Classy, Red State

I don’t know why, exactly, but my first reaction to seeing that Justice Anthony Kennedy had delivered a constitutional right to gay marriage was to go see how it was going over at Erick Erickson’s Red State. I got...

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