The midterm elections are fast approaching… okay, so it’s still January. But the midterms are coming this year, and with that knowledge, Republicans are quickly realizing… again, that their outreach to voting groups should go beyond rich white men. Mike…
Month: January 2014
An internal White House assessment concludes that President Obama must distance himself from a recalcitrant Congress after being badly damaged last year by legislative failures, a government shutdown and his own missteps. Obama has said that his fraught relationship with…
In 1986, when Muhammad Ali Jr. was 14 years old, his father, the greatest boxer alive, picked up the teen for a visit. “We got in the car, and I said I needed to stop for something to eat,” Ali…
It has been more than two years since the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator whose reign subjected an impoverished people to four decades of murder and terror. When the bedraggled former leader was hauled out of…
A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma has proposed a controversial way to stopping same-sex marriages in the state. According to News9.com, state Rep. Mike Turner (R) has proposed scrapping marriage in the state altogether. The lawmaker contends that it is the…
The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative. The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state…
President Obama used this week’s address to inform the world that the Administration has taken another important step to protect women at college by establishing the White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault. An estimated 1 in…
While an eye drop manufacturer commissioned the poll, the independent research company One Poll conducted it. Worth noting: The results include the 10 traits men notice first about women. h/t – womenshealth
According to reports from the Trinidad Newsday an 18 year old man boy was arrested by police in connection with three counts of rape of his ten-year-old sister and grievous sexual assault against their 44-year-old mother. What makes this even crazier is how blatant he…
A gay artist from Russia has created a flipped image in response to the controversial photo of Garage Magazine’s white, female editor-in-chief sitting on a “black woman” chair. The Russian editor-in-chief of Garage magazine, Dasha Zhukova, came under fire for…
Wallace was born without any arms so in order to function in his daily life, he uses his toes as other people would use their fingers. Jahmir Wallace may not have arms but he doesn’t need them to play the…
Mall shoppers are loaded onto shuttle buses and evacuated by police and rescue personnel after a shooting at The Mall in Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Columbia, Md. Evan Vucci/AP Photo Police investigating a shooting at a Maryland…