January 12, 2013If you haven’t seen or heard this yet, just wait — it’s making its way around Facebook. In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and former astronaut Mark Kelly, her husband, spoke out on gun violence.

January 11, 2013Armed janitors, teachers in wake of US shooting (via AFP) A rural Ohio school district which has asked its janitors to carry handguns has become the latest to push for armed staff members in the wake of a horrific school

January 11, 2013F. Fitzgerald said there “are are no second acts in American lives” — but there apparently are second acts in conservative ideologues who wish to flaunt their studity. An so I submit to you one Rep. Phil Gringley: U.S. Rep.

January 11, 2013Venezuela’s future uncertain amid Chavez absence (via AFP) Venezuela faced an uncertain future without its ailing President Hugo Chavez on Friday, a day after a giant rally in support of the cancer-striken leader on the day he was to have

January 11, 2013If it’s going to come down to a trillion-dollar platinum coin, we might as well understand what it is and isn’t. I see it as that moment in the movies when the priest, dealing with the devil incarnate, holds up

January 10, 2013Poll: Christie would do well in 2016 general election but have a hard time in GOP primary (via NJ.com) Gov. Chris Christie would be a strong contender in the 2016 general election for president but may have a hard time

January 10, 2013NRA takes aim at Biden’s guns task force (via AFP) The top US firearms lobby emerged from talks with Vice President Joe Biden on curbing violence Thursday saying he cared more about stamping out gun rights than protecting school kids.