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A Man Was Sentenced To Life For Pot, But What Pres. Obama Did Changed Everything

On Tuesday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 22 drug offenders in the largest batch of prisoners granted early release under his administration’s sweeping overhaul of the justice system. Obama hopes to reduce prison overcrowding and to fix the archaic and overly harsh penalties for drug offenses. Obama had previously commuted the sentences of 8…

April 1, 2015
WATCH: Discrimination begins; Indiana pizzeria first to say "No gays allowed"

Indiana Republicans like Gov. Mike pence shamelessly deny that their “Religious Liberty” law will allow legal discrimination against gays and lesbians, but legal experts and the facts say otherwise. In fact, an Indiana pizzeria named Memories Pizza has become the first to proudly announced that it will deny its services to gay couples. “If a…

April 1, 2015
Watch: That Time Rand Paul Admitted He Doesn't 'Believe' In 'Gay Rights'

To Rand Paul, the concept of gay rights is like the tooth fairy: He just doesn’t BELIEVE in it.

March 31, 2015
Indiana Set to Lose Billions as Businesses Boycott State Over Anti-Gay Law

On Thursday, Indiana bigot Governor Mike Pence gleefully signed a thinly veiled anti-gay bill into law that will allow business owners to openly discriminate and call it “religious freedom.” Pence signed the bill even after Indiana Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Kevin Brinegar warned that the bill will have severe effects on the state’s economy. Unfortunately…

March 28, 2015
Watch: That Time Ted Cruz Called for Congress to be Filled with 100 Racists

In this eye-opening video, Republican presidential wannabe Ted Cruz compares himself to ex-Senator Jesse Helms, widely considered to be the most racist politician in modern history, and declares that the Senate needs “a hundred more like him”. Before playing the clip, Rachel Maddow breaks down Helms’ unsavory reputation and some of his more appalling moments.…

March 24, 2015
Booming Health Care Industry Credits Obamacare for Historic Growth

Do you remember when John Boehner said this: “In my opinion, ObamaCare is the biggest job killer we have in America today.” [Source] Or how about when 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney said: “When you have three quarters of American small businesses responding to surveys saying that Obamacare is making it less likely for them…

March 21, 2015
That Time Karl Rove Deleted 22 MILLION White House E-Mails And The Media Said Nothing

The Right is heavily focused on a manufactured “controversy” surrounding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails…but what about that one time…?

March 19, 2015
Protests Succeed: Target Raises its Minimum Wage Due to Public Backlash

Just one week after women’s advocacy group UltraViolet launched a grassroots campaign urging Target’s customers to switch to Wal-Mart, the retail giant has announced that it will be raising its minimum wage to $9/hour starting in April. The retailer is the latest to make such an announcement. Last month after years of pressure, Wal-Mart announced that they…

March 19, 2015
Republicans Panic as Obama Announces Support for Mandatory Voting

Speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday, President Obama struck fear in the hearts of Republican gerrymanderers and vote suppressors when he announced that the best way to fight back against the corruptive influence of money on our political system is to require everybody to vote: “If everybody voted, then it would completely…

March 19, 2015
Watch: Obama Uses Republicans' Own Words to Prove They're Always Wrong

It’s not often that you hear Pres. Obama brag about his economic accomplishments — and point out just how wrong his Republican critics have been in their predictions of economic gloom — but that’s exactly what happened earlier today. In just three minutes, he eviscerated six years of Republican lies, hysteria, and distortion about his…

March 18, 2015