On March 5, Pope Francis gave an interview to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he was asked a question concerning civil unions as a legal alternative to marriage. It’s worth reading the entire thing (click here for
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been in office three months, but he has managed to make enemies of the Democratic Party establishment, far-left charter school opponents, beloved weatherman Al Roker, and beloved weatherrodent Punxsutawney Phil in that short
Left-wing lobby group, 38 Degrees, has been accused of deliberately wasting MPs time ahead of today’s vote on NHS reforms. The group, which is opposed to the Care Bill, has asked it members to send tens of thousands of identical
I’ve had my eye on Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings because it is indicative of what’s to come for a lot of cities. How Detroit deals with its bankruptcy could also set a precedent for other cities forced to deal with the
An expert scholar on mass shootings labels the NFL’s edict banning off-duty cops from carrying weapons inside stadiums “completely crazy” and suggests the league may be unnecessarily exposing fans to dangers by transforming stadiums into gun-free zones. “Banning off-duty law-enforcement
Big-business and establishment groups vowed they would wage war on conservatives and Tea Party candidates, particularly incumbents, in 2014, but they are backing off after realizing they may not want to throw money at losers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The New York Police Department’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) will join Minnesota police unions’ lawsuit against NFL gun ban. According to the New York Post, SBA president Edward Mullins said the NFL’s policy barring off-duty officers from carrying guns into
Watching the 86th annual Academy Awards from the red carpet was a real eye-opener. The sun miraculously came out on cue at precisely 2 p.m. (EST) as the stars started parading down the red carpet. Before that moment, three days of
Nearly 10,000 Las Vegas casino workers say they are considering going on strike over what the unpopular Obamacare program has done to their health care insurance. If contract negotiations to keep their existing benefits go unsettled by March 20, Nevada’s
Less than a year after suffering a major investment downgrade, Chicago has been downgraded again. Moody’s Investment Services announced Tuesday that it was lowering Chicago’s rating from A3 to Baa1, three levels above junk bond status. Last July, Moody’s downgraded
This weekend the Labour Party held its so-called ‘special conference’, organised to give delegates a vote on a series of reforms concerning the party’s relationship with trade unions. Members travelled from across the country to the conference hall in East
Len McCluskey, head of the Unite union, has said that Ed Miliband’s reforms of party funding will give his union more power over the party. Under the plans, which were approved today, union members will no longer be automatically affiliated
The Common Core-aligned practice field tests are coming to American public schools in April; but it is only in preparation for their official launch in Spring 2015. This year’s tests will not even be graded, according to the Smarter Balanced Assessment
As part of their election year strategy of steering the public’s attention as far away from ObamaCare as humanly possible, Democrats have been pushing for a vote on a minimum wage hike in the Republican-led House – which they know,
The religious liberties versus government battles began long before state legislature like Arizona began considering bills to protect business owners’ religious freedoms or bake shops refused to make wedding cakes for same sex couples. Almost two years ago an uproar
On the fifth anniversary of the first Tea Party rallies, the movement’s record appears mixed. It swept the GOP to a majority in the U.S. House, where it has blocked President Barack Obama’s most radical ambitions. It helped the GOP
As Republicans nationally are fighting to stop the Obama Administration’s IRS from imposing new rules limiting political speech by conservative groups and forcing them to reveal their donors, a state agency in Texas is trying to impose a similar restraint in the
A Member of Parliament has called for the threshold for strike action to be raised after a strike by tube workers caused two days of chaos in London. The RMT and TSSA unions held 48 hours of industrial action on
Immediately following a press conference by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), during which the state’s largest teachers’ union said “implementation” of the Common Core standards had been “botched,” Connecticut state House Republicans announced they were able to force a public
In May 2012, major Conservative donor and LGBT activist Ivan Massow wrote an article making the case that the Conservative Party had nothing to fear in discarding social conservatism, because its advocates in the party had nowhere else to go.
In an address to the National Association of Attorneys General, Tuesday morning, Eric Holder, the nation’s top law enforcement official, urged state attorneys general to refuse to enforce state bans on same-sex marriage. He had foreshadowed this latest example of the
A spokesperson for Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has said that she expresses “regret” over the National Council for Civil Liberties’ (NCCL) links with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) group, the former over which Harman presided as Legal Officer in
One of the more persistent myths of modern politics is that Democrats are swimming against a torrent of money supporting Republicans. In the media narrative, nefarious business and monied interests subvert the democratic process by deploying millions against Democrats progressives.
Employees from NBCUniversal dropped off over 10,000 petitions seeking better workplace rights, to MSNBC’s primetime hosts, Thursday. According to TV Newser, the workers requested that Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, and Lawrence O’Donnell come down and personally receive the
In a Politico Magazine op-ed on Thursday, Republican strategist Rich Galen attempts to educate “the right” about why it should “love the Common Core.” From the get-go, Galen misses the boat on who doesn’t love the Common Core standards. Opponents
