These States Are Getting Ready To Legalize Marijuana
New England could become a completely recreational marijuana zone if lawmakers have it their way. Massachusetts and Maine, along with three other states, already passed...
How Rex Tillerson’s Astonishing Testimony Just Completely Disqualified Him
Rex Tillerson’s witless, contradictory, and obfuscatory testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmed fears that the ExxonMobil CEO is too conflicted, too ill-prepared, and too disengaged from accepted understandings with regard to diplomacy, sustainable development, and human rights to be seriously considered for the position of secretary of state.
Hide Your Babies! RFK Jr’s Surprising and Disappointing Defection
This is horrifying: President-elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a proponent of a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, to chair a...
Obama is the first US president to author an article in Science magazine
In an eleventh-hour attempt to cement his legacy on climate change and dissuade his successor from scrapping his policies, President Barack Obama published an article...
Sessions, Kelly Face Confirmation Hearings Today
Tuesday kicks off a packed three-day stretch of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks. First up on Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m. ET, is...
Bone-head Reince Priebus Doesn’t Think Trump’s Cabinet Picks Need Background Investigations
David Displayed with permission from Crooks and Liars Reince Priebus, chief of staff to Donald Trump, argued on Sunday that there was "no reason" to...
You’re Fired! Trump Drops Announcer Who Has Covered Inaugurations Since Eisenhower
See that spry octogenarian? He's Charlie Brotman. Back in 1957, he was announcing the Washington Senators baseball game on Opening Day. Dwight D. Eisenhower threw...
CDC’s latest report on firearms might not make many gun control activists happy
Gun rights advocates have long defended their right to bear arms out of a need for self-defense. And now they have a new report from...
US Officials Claim To Know Who Gave Hacked Emails To WikiLeaks
U.S. officials told CNN that the classified intelligence report delivered to President Obama on Thursday identifies the intermediaries the Russians used to give hacked emails...
The Fool Has Yet To Be Sworn In and Already China Is Sick and Tired of Trump’s Tweets
China, a military and economic superpower known to keep negotiations and other talks close to its chest, has reportedly had it with President-elect Donald Trump’s...
Intense Public Pressure Forces House Republicans to Scrap Plan to Gut Ethics Office
[caption id="attachment_153342" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Speaker Of the House Paul Ryan (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)[/caption] Amid an outcry from President-elect Donald Trump and other elected officials, House...
Trump Trolls North Korea And China On Twitter
Earlier today, Donald Trump decided to troll North Korea via Twitter. I'm not sure who is more erratic -- Trump or Kim Jong-Un -- but...
Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Day Speech: ‘Regrets,’ ‘Guilty Conscience’
Kim Jong Un was up bright and early New Year’s Day to make his first announcement of 2017: that North Korea is in the “final stages” of development of a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile and a test launch is imminent, ABC Australia reports.
Obama Creates 1.6 Million Protected Nevada Acres Upsetting Republicans
President Obama has delighted conservationists but angered conservatives with the creation of two more national monuments in the closing weeks of his presidency. The Bears...