Author: Justin Lane

  Since the Supreme Court decided to rip the veritable teeth right out of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the case of Shelby County v. Holder, it’s been a race to the legislature for the GOP to see how far they go with violating people’s right to vote. Eric Holder and the DOJ, according to Talking Points Memo, will be joining lawsuits challenging GOP-backed voting laws in battleground states of Ohio and Wisconsin. According to TPM, Holder made the statement in an interview that has yet to air with ABC’s Pierre Thomas. The lawsuits take issue with...

  Tea Party economic strategies are all the rage with far righters who want to run against the grain. There’s a glaring problem with their economic theories though: they don’t work. One of the most vocal proponents of Tea Party economic theories is a man named Rick Santelli. He regularly appears on CNBC as a commentator (read: cartoon character) and gives his take on the economy. Santelli is often credited with giving birth to the Tea Party movement. But when he recently appeared on CNBC, after hearing Santelli proclaim how he had been right all along about the Federal...

  When the average person encounters a child feeling pains in his stomach, they may suspect food poisoning, an upset stomach, or any of a plethora of maladies that can commonly affect people. That’s most people. Every now and then though, something like stomach pain may just be a sign that your child has the devil living in his bowels, or at least that’s what you’d think if you’re Pat Robertson. On an episode of the 700 Club, Robertson took to giving advice to a mother confronted by a troubling development with her son. “My son heard sounds that...

  The Bush tax cuts, which were supposed to help lead to a more prosperous economy, have actually cost Americans as much as $6.6 trillion in personal income. An amount that could easily pay for every car loan, student loan, and all credit card debt in the United States. The information comes from a column on Al Jazeera America Wednesday. According to the author, David Cay Johnston, after adjusting for inflation and comparing average income with that of 2000, he found a $6.6 trillion disparity. “Consider what $48,000 of additional income over those 12 years would have meant to...

  The Information Commissioner’s Office, a UK oversight body, is reportedly investigating whether Facebook may have broken any laws when it manipulated users’ emotions in order to make them sadder. In January 2012, Facebook, along with Cornell University and the University of California, manipulated the news feeds of individual’s using the service in order to measure any emotional response from the users. The experiment lasted one week and affected approximately 700,000 users. Facebook found that at the end of the experiment users affected by the manipulation did show signs of using negative language in their postings. Since news of...