Liberal Forum

The NRA Fights to Keep Guns in the Hands of Wife BeatersAdd another to the long list of things that the NRA considers less important than maintaining high profits for the gun industry: Preventing men from killing their wives after they've already been identified as a threat to do so. This article fr...

Candy Crowley Oozes Sympathy for Steubenville Rapists - VIDEOShortly after the guilty verdict in the Steubenville rape case was announced, Candy Crowley took to the airwaves to report it and connect with their reporter on the ground for more details. Her lead-in to the remote shot was shameful.Crowl...

A Bronx Cheer for the Postal Service: The Fire Sale of Historic Post Offices Continues Earlier this week (Feb. 3, 2013) the Postal Service announced that it planned to sell the historic post office on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York. There's an excellent article about the post office by ...

New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMDFresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Husseins foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction.Tony Blair ...

Hear that all you unmarried people? Society never gave you the right to engage in sex outside of marriage, and you should be punished and shamed for it.Don't forget that the Family Research Council uses its advocacy muscle to influence legislation.When I have sex out of wedlock (which is when I have...

The Right Wing freak show known as the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC, opened today. The first contribution comes from crazy Louis Gohmert (R-TX)‘Vietnam Was Winnable’...

Family Research Council: Unmarried People Should Be Denied Birth Control And Punished For Having SexThe right-wing Family Research Council which uses its advocacy muscle to try to block comprehensive sexual health programs in public schools is now going a step further, suggesting the young America...

'Dirty War' Questions for Pope Francis I By Robert Parry If one wonders if the U.S. press corps has learned anything in the decade since the Iraq War - i.e. the need to ask tough question and show honest skepticism - it would appear from the early coverage of the election of Pope Francis I that U....

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesnt Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are ConstitutionalStill smarting over last year's ruling upholding Obamacare, freshman Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) dismissed the idea that the Supreme Court decides whether or not laws are constitutional."Just because the ...

What is this fixation the Republicans have with balancing the budget?The new Republican talking point is 'families have to balance their household budgets, so why shouldn't the government have to balance theirs'?But that's not exactly true. Families also have debts, like mortgages and car payments.A...