Actor Mel Gibson announced today that he is retiring from movies to run for Senator of California on the Republican ticket. “It’s been clear for some time that I embrace Republican values,” the former actor said. “I haven’t had time to draft a formal position paper yet,...

The Coalition Against Religious Bigotry, a collection of right-wing Christian groups, and one organization comprised partly of Jews, who think joining them will persuade people who believe this should be a Christian nation to make nice with them, has protested a planned Comedy Central cartoon show depicting...

Over a month has passed since the BP oil spill and fingers are STILL being pointed. BP is getting most of the blame (with good reason). The Obama Administration has not been let off the hook either. The problem with the blame game is that it halts efforts to fix the problem. The ongoing oil spill erupted...

Just two days after agreeing to join President Obama’s Task Force on saving the Gulf of Mexico, former Vice President Dick Cheney abruptly resigned, citing “philosophical differences” with the President. “I thought my mission was to save the Gulf of Mexico for further oil exploration,” he said,...

President Obama today called on former Bush administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and former Vice President Dick Cheney to coordinate efforts to save the Gulf of Mexico and the coastal economies of the United States from the rapidly deteriorating environmental catastrophe. “It...

Senator Inhofe, British Petroleum Fight Climate Change – Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the Senate’s foremost climate change denier, today reversed his position and admitted climate change did exist. “It takes courage to admit when you’re wrong,” he said, “And it turns...

On the eve of the ecological disaster about to strike the wetlands of Louisiana from the exploded oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama renewed his call for increased off-shore oil drilling. “This unfortunate accident is going to cost close to a billion dollars in cleanup costs, and much...

By the time you finish reading this, the tension surrounding the immigration law passed by the governor of Arizona will have reached a fever pitch.  The Arizona law criminalizes illegal immigration by defining it as trespassing.  It empowers police, to question anyone they have a “reasonable...

In an unintended (or not) push to force the Obama Administration to address the immigration issue, Arizona passed a law this week that basically makes racial profiling legal. This new bill criminalizes the lack of alien registration documents for those in the country illegally. It also allows police...

Barack Obama has hit a new low. Despite that one of his first actions as president was to block all offshore drilling that his predecessor had approved, President Obama has now decided to support one of Sarah Palin’s most vocal issues: offshore drilling. While the president and his supporters hope...