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Stirring photo; little girl surrenders when she mistakes camera for gun.
"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon,"says Sağırlı. "İ realised she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands....
View ArticlePresident Obama forces Republican politicians to eat their own words
President Obama continues his new stride as he chides Republicans for their failed prognostications. Democratic politicians encouraged his silence during the 2014 elections. Imagine what could have...
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What Do Conservatives Want When They Say "I Want My Country Back?"
How often have I heard or seen this phrase, "I want my country back," used over the years since I was born in 1956, in Raleigh, North Carolina? I can't give you a precise number, but I can tell you...
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Darrell Issa proposes renaming the ocean after Ronald Reagan
Rep. Darrell Issa, seen here once again doing something vapid and pointless. (Western Journalism Center) The laser-like Republican focus on jobs continues:Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is floating...
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Walmart asks its workers to donate food to other Walmart workers ... again
Walmart pays its workers so little that many of them are forced to rely on government assistance to make ends meet. But while it won't raise wages so that workers can pay their bills and buy food,...
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Plutocrat Predicts: The Pitchforks Are Coming
You know things have gotten bad when a self-proclaimed plutocrat sees the future and doesn't like what he sees.ComingSpeaking to other plutocrats, Nick Hanauer tells some serious truth.Starting off by...
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The Republican Lifeguard
Mike Luckovich, Pulitzer-Prize-winning political cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (and self-proclaimed Daily Kos fan), has once again produced a simple yet profound critique of...
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Marriage equality's biggest foe sees she can't fight the new family values
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D, NY-18) was sworn into the House this week. His partner Randy Florke to his right, surrounded by their kids and Speaker Boehner. The nationally syndicated column of Maggie...
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The 50 Equal United States of America
Here's a cool map from artist and urban planner Neil Freeman, who engaged in a thought experiment to rectify a serious problem with the electoral college: namely, that California has 66 times the...
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MUST-SEE: Jon Stewart BLASTS arguments against raising the minimum wage
Last night, Jon Stewart delivered quite the smackdown to financial news hosts, specifically CNBC's Larry Kudlow and Fox's Stuart Varney, for their insipid arguments against raising the minimum wage....
View Article(Updated) Bernie Goes Godfather on Billionaire Class
With no teleprompter, Senator Bernie Sanders' (Please click to donate if you can) repeated a major campaign theme, that no President can defeat the oligarchs without the strong support of a...
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Donald Trump gets into Twitter war with Modern Family writer—is obliterated
You can't pay your way into being witty. Because nothing says "presidential material" like being destroyed on your foreign policy by a television show writer in an online flame war, the Donald got a...
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Hillary's incredible response to a gay teen's photo on Facebook
Humans of New York uploaded this photo of a gay teen to Facebook last Friday with the heartbreaking quote "I'm homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me."The...
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This Is What Global Warming Looks Like
BRITISH COLUMBIA"Beautiful British Columbia," the tourist brochures call it. Fires raging across B.C.This is due to very hot weather and months without rain, in our rainforests. And higher...
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China's enormous stock market crash
All eyes have been on Greece this week, but the real action is on the other side of Asia. About $2.7 trillion in value has evaporated since the Chinese stock market peaked on June 12. That is six...
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Inspiring images of over 1000 Muslims forming 'ring of peace' around Oslo...
If ever a photo was worth a thousand words That is a beautiful image. Over the weekend, more than 1000 Muslims gathered to form a ring of peace around a synagogue in Oslo, Norway. They both offered a...
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Republican field tired of 'gotcha questions' sob, stop quoting me!
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) The Republican presidential primary has only just gotten going and already the candidates are sick and tired of gotcha questions from the media. You know, sneaky, unfair stuff like...
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The Brainwashing Of My Dad By Limbaugh, Fox & GOP Media
Many of us understand the damage Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, and 'hate media' has done to our country in promoting racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry. They perpetuate lies and poison the minds of...
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At White House Christmas party, Michele Bachmann asks Obama to bomb Iran
I love this picture and you will never get me to stop using it. Rep. Michele Bachmann already gave her farewell address, but she hasn't gone home yet:In an interview with the Washington Free Beacon,...
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Bay Area tech company busted for paying workers $1.21 an hour
Yeah, you read that number correctly–one dollar and twenty-one cents an hour.From NBC's Bay Area affiliate:The Labor Department said about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging were...
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