Pence rejects suggestions of a link between Trump rhetoric and acts of violence

“The vice president defended Trump's attacks on opponents as part of "political debate."”

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Mike Pence rejected the suggestion that there is a link between the kind of political rhetoric used by President Donald Trump and acts of violence like Saturday's deadly shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh or last week's mail bombs sent to prominent Trump critics....

A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany

““If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.””

Usually, comparisons between Donald Trump’s America and Nazi Germany come from cranks and internet trolls. But a new essay in the New York Review of Books pointing out “troubling similarities” between the 1930s and today is different: It’s written by Christopher Browning, one of America’s most...

Kavanaugh hearing prosecutor Rachel Mitchell's critique of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is incomplete and deeply flawed

“It's one thing to misleadingly frame Dr. Ford’s allegations as a case of “he said, she said.” It's something else to ignore what “he” actually said.”

Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona state prosecutor hired by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct questioning during the Judge Brett Kavanaugh hearing on Sept. 27, has released a memo analyzing the sexual assault allegations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Mitchell concludes that...

Keg-parties and assaults: Women from Catholic high schools in Washington area break 'culture of silence'

“By 1990, off-campus parties had become such a problem that headmasters from seven of the Washington area’s elite private schools, including...”

Christine “Cricket” Keating had a close-knit circle of friends growing up in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the 1980s — but there were some things they never discussed. Keating and her friends — classmates at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and other all-girls Roman Catholic schools...

Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Statement For Senate Hearing

“But the details about that night that bring me here today are ones I will never forget. They have been seared into my memory and have haunted me...”

Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, Members of the Committee. My name is Christine Blasey Ford. I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina...

Judge Brett Kavanaugh— “It Ain’t Necessarily So!”

“Rape is having sex with a woman while she screams for help. No scream, no rape according to Deuteronomy 22:23-24.”

DISCLAIMER: Note that the seeded article and the linked website are NOT credible news sources.    The linked website is widely considered to be an anti-LGBT hate group.  ***************************** Some common sense definitions are necessary regarding this accusation. Rape is having sex...

More Harvard, Yale freshmen identify as LGBTQ than as conservative, surveys find

“Compared to national data on LGBTQ identity and political persuasion, Harvard and Yale appear to be more liberal and to comprise a higher...”

More freshmen at both Harvard and Yale identify as LGBTQ than as politically conservative, according to surveys published by the universities’ student newspapers. According to Yale Daily News’ “Class of 2022: By the Numbers,” approximately 23 percent of the freshman class identify somewhere...

School Closed After Parents Declare ‘Hunting Season’ on 12-Year-Old Transgender Student: ‘A Good Sharp Knife Will Do the Job’

A middle school in Achille, Oklahoma is closed following violent threats by parents on social media against Maddie, a 12-year-old transgender student who identifies as female and used the girls’ bathroom. Maddie had been using the staff bathroom at her old school but used the girls’ bathroom at...

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner sues after refusing to make a birthday cake for a trans woman

He does birthday cakes, but not "gender-transition cakes." Just two months after his narrow victory at the Supreme Court, Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, is back in the news for once again discriminating against an LGBTQ customer. This time, he refused to sell a birthday cake...

Jeff Sessions' 'religious liberty task force' part of a dangerous Christian nationalist campaign of discrimination

With the help of politicians like Jeff Session, religious leaders are trying to redefine religious liberty as a tool of discrimination. In the Trump administration’s latest effort to deliver on promises to its base, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “religious liberty task force”...