In Oklahoma today, thousands of public school teachers went on strike. They came from more than 200 schools to protest terrible working conditions, and low pay. Classes were cancelled all over the state today because of the walkout. Thousands of teachers spoke out about having to work second and third jobs just to be able […]
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In a recent twitter attack, President Trump has accused Amazon of causing loss to the United States Postal Service. This is not the first time Trump has attacked Amazon, blaming the company for having a terrible effect on the U.S. economy. Trump is now claiming that Amazon is not paying enough state and local taxes. […]
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Two children, an infant girl and a toddler boy, were found dead in their car seats outside of their home, in Superior Arizona. The children were “cold to the touch” and had clearly been left in the car for several hours, according to officials, but the cause of death is still unknown. Their mother, Brittany […]
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On Monday, several suspicious packages were sent to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Packages were also sent to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgreen, Virginia and the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Buildings were evacuated and an Army bomb squad was bought in. The bomb squad confirmed that the package contained explosive deposits. There have […]
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On Saturday, March 24th, 2018, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in major cities across the U.S. to call for stricter gun laws. The event was organized by students and survivors of the Parkland School shooting, where a shooter left 17 dead and a nation in mourning, once again. After the unprecedented […]
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I don’t know quite how it happened, but something seems to have finally shifted in our national conversation about guns. Just a few years ago, the idea that hundreds of thousands of Americans would take to the streets to demand gun control would have been unimaginable. In 2012, twenty children – twenty first graders – […]
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Sources close to the White House report that Mike Pence was forced to read Fire and Fury, the newly released, tell all book with unflattering descriptions of the Trump White House by senior cabinet members, to Donald Trump after he learned the book was not on audiotape. White House aides say President Trump clumsily avoided […]
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This past October, with our children, my husband and I visited Israel, his homeland. We had been planning this trip since the conception of our relationship. It was one of the few non-negotiables of being in a relationship with him (kidding, but not). I was initially opposed to the idea because of the perception of […]
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“Merry Christmas”. At first they were whispers, the words hardly spoken. For that damn liberal media had denied the people their seasonal greeting. People lived in fear, an invisible war. Only the brave had the guts to shout. “Boycott Starbucks! We Want Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays, No More!” Happy Holidays be damned. A labor camp […]
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Earlier this week, The New York Times published a story that drew much ire from media critics as it profiled a Neo-Nazi living in the heart of America. The article, titled “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland,” profiled Tony Hovater, a recently-married man living in Huber Heights, Ohio, who identifies as a right extremist. Hovater […]
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