The inevitable has occurred following the passage of a law allowing for the concealed carry of firearms on college campuses in Idaho. Local ABC affiliate KIDK reports that a professor at Idaho State...
Author - SK Ashby
Gun Nuts Will Buy Anything
While you can still import and purchase AK-47 rifles made by competitors, including a Russian-made version, imports of the original manufactured by Kalashnikov were banned as part of the economic...
What Could Go Wrong?
What could go wrong is going wrong in Texas. From the Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Border Patrol agent pursuing a group of immigrants in a wooded area near the Texas-Mexico border...
Go It Alone
Artist – Adam Zyglis In other news, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has found his next job at Wall Street investment bank Moelis & Co. Cantor was reportedly paid $1.5 million for...
Words Continue to Have No Meaning
Words continue to have no meaning as Fox & Friends hosts the “PolitiChicks” who tells us that everything we thought we knew about feminism is wrong. via TPM “They claim that we...
Bad to Worse
The already very bad story of the 9-year-old girl who killed her instructor with an Uzi seems even more heinous in hindsight as the Associated Press shares details on what happened to the girl at the...
Larry Klayman’s Latest Lawsuit and Conspiracy Theory
I missed this gem of brilliance over the weekend but there’s no time like the present time to ponder anti-NSA complainant Larry Klayman’s new lawsuit. Apparently Klayman, along with a...
Revisionism
Tennessee Republicans are challenging Advanced Placement standards in their state, joining their counterparts at the RNC in opposition to what they call “revisionist.” From The...
The RNC is Very Confused
Words continue to have no meaning. You could say this is a lie, but it has just the right amount of absurdity to it to make it seem believably naive. Because as long as words continue to have no...
Make Believe
Artist – Nick Anderson In other news, a state district judge has ruled that the system Texas uses to fund schools is unconstitutional. The state was sued by more than 600 school districts over...
Presidential Subtweet
The White House didn’t name names, but the oval office apparently does’t think Bill Kristol’s “see what happens” strategy is very smart via TPM EARNEST: “The...
Pennsylvania Water Contaminated At Least 243 Times by Fracking
Following years of filing lawsuits and open-records requests, the Associated Press has learned that water wells in Pennsylvania have been contaminated at least 243 times. I say ‘at least’...
Rick Perry’s Border Troops Forced to Use a Food Bank
Texas Governor Rick Perry deployed National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley to essentially do nothing (because they have no authority to make arrests or even question immigrants) and apparently...
The Audacity
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, the Washington Post reported today that hostages held by ISIS, including James Foley, were tortured (waterboarded) by their captors. Does Team Cheney stand...
Erickson Doesn’t Think the President is a Secret Muslim, But…
He can see why some people do. Yeah. Who cares what Erickson says, right? That would be a question you should ask the Republican party because they see eye to eye. RNC chairman Reince Priebus...
Rand’s Rant on Foreign Policy With Bonus Conspiracy Theory
Over 191,000 people have been killed during Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s bloody campaign against his own people, and millions more have been displaced, but Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) says...
Scott Brown’s Obamacare Replacement is Romneycare
Scott Brown tells New Hampshire Public Radio that he wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something he already voted on in the past: Romneycare. We need to repeal Obamacare and we need to...
It’s Good to Be the King
Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (R) wants to change the state’s liquor laws because women need to go to the grocery and make dinner. Not kidding...
Live From Somewhere
Jon Stewart is back from vacation and the Daily Show writers had a field day with Fox News coverage of Ferguson. Yes, describing the actual facts of the case really does color the way we look at it...
Bobby Jindal is Not Done Trying to Ruin Education
Bobby Jindal probably isn’t a name that immediately comes to mind when education standards are mentioned, and if it is it’s probably for bad reasons, but it may come as a surprise that...