Author: Steven D

One of the things Republicans would like to cut is spending on medical research. Well, here’s one example why that is a bad idea, and how a relatively small investment by the government has led to medical breakthroughs in...

See if you can spot the problem with where the Republicans chose to hold a conference in which improving their outreach to African American voters and other minorities is one of the prominent topics they will discuss: After its...

Actual headline today from the Associated Press: Can Obama keep warmer inauguration weather pledge? This is journalism? (Rhetorical question – we stopped having effective news coverage decades ago). The Onion...

From Rush’s own transcript of his show yesterday: CALLER: I think it does. It’s just terrible that 26 people died in Sandy Hook and 20 of them were children. Terrible. Very sad, coming up to Christmas. Hopes and...

We are a violent nation. A nation where far too many of us have worshiped at the alter of the God of Guns and the consequences of that worship, a culture steeped in violence, particularly violence blasted out of the barrel of a...