Proving once again to be a Progressive member of the Republican Party, Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, cast the deciding vote giving President Barack Obama authorization to ‘fast-track’ trade agreements. As HuffPo reports: “Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) stood by the table in the well of the Senate for most of the vote, waiting for the…

While distracted by the issue over South Carolina’s Confederate battle flag and President Obama’s use of a racial slur in a public forum, the U.S. Congress literally pulled a ‘fast’ one. The Senate has voted to advance Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on ‘fast-track authority.’ The 60-37 motion sets up a…

Pope Francis denounced the “great powers” of the world for failing to act when Jews, Christians, homosexuals and others were being transported to death camps in Europe during World War II. He also decried the deaths of Christians in Russia under Joseph Stalin, following the war. The Pope’s comments came during his visit in northern…

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, now campaigning for president and following the recent massacre in South Carolina, posted to Facebook, “My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum where it belonged.” Once again there’s a call for the…

“I do believe this was a hate crime,” Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said early Thursday near the scene at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after nine people were shot and killed in Charleston, South Carolina, during a Bible study session. When I first saw this pop up on social media, my first thought was…

Dystopian television isn’t always about an ‘undesirable or frightening ’society; sometimes its harmless and disarming. Take the TV show, ‘Ally McBeal,’ which aired in the late 90s and early 2000’s. Panned by some for it’s depiction of women working in a professional environment because of their ‘flightiness’ and short-short skirts, while others applauded the series edgy social advancements…

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson spoke at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) campus yesterday morning. The retired neurosurgeon announced he was running for president last month. Carson outlined several of his proposals to a crowd gathered outside the school’s student union. The ideas include a six-month corporate tax holiday, decreasing the government’s say…

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that 96 percent of those surveyed last month think we’re in for a summer of racial unrest. Furthermore, 54 percent believe a disturbance is likely to happen in the metropolitan area closest to where they live. Sixty-eight percent of adults said they believe it is “very likely” that there…

“Objective truth is dead. It has been slain by human feelings — by a soft tyranny of sentimentalism which dictates that how a person feels about anything now defines its reality,” writes Elizabeth Scalia at Patheos. Because NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal believes herself to be Black is of no consequence to anyone. After all, if a…

Stop overlooking the beauty of small moments. Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.