Author: Ring of Fire Radio

In a 5-4 decision Monday, the Supreme Court limited the EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The decision is another in the growing body of opinions from the Court that supports the corporate class in America. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the opinion of the Court. In it, he stated that the EPA does not have authority, in some instances, to force some of the biggest polluters to purchase permits to do so. According to the Justice, however, the decision will only have a minor effect on the EPA’s ability to regulate these polluters. Scalia claimed that the Court’s...

The GOP has been in trouble. It has known this for years and recently failed election bids highlight the problems plaguing the GOP and its constituency. A string of defeats has highlighted that the party is falling to its fringe constituency and that’s a surefire guarantee for the party to guarantee its demise. National demographics reflect a swelling minority population, a group the Republican Party has a less than stellar record with, and just last week the GOP voted to appoint two more white men to its leadership positions. In its autopsy report from 2013, the GOP concluded that...

Back in March, the Kentucky Baptist Convention was reported to have been hosting gun giveaways to lure followers into religion: marketing God with guns. Ignite Church of Joplin, Missouri has followed suit by having a gun raffle to “get more people to follow Jesus.” This is a political buy of people’s religious faith and guns are the currency. “If we can get people in the door, we get to preach the gospel,” said Ignite Church lead pastor Heath Mooneyham of snagging people hook, line, and sinker. “If we can get more people to follow Jesus, I’ll give away 1,000...

At least we aren’t Toronto. The world got its first taste of crack-piping, hard-drinking, assembly-disrupting mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. One would think that he’s the odd man out in the upcoming mayoral elections in Toronto, right? Wrong. There are 21 candidates for Toronto’s highest office, and they run the gamut from weird and quirky to all-around bad person. Vice has been keeping up with Toronto’s mayoral race, which is sure to become a sideshow. First up, is a man that has only really been identified as “a man named Al Gore.” Much specuation has been drawn concerning the...

The People’s Pope, Pope Francis, came out against the legalization of recreational drugs. Pope Francis has a record of being socially progressive but it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Pope has come out against the liberal trend of legalizing recreational drugs. During a meeting in Rome on drug-enforcement last Friday, Francis stated unequivocally that drug addiction is an evil and that attempts to legalize such practice are misguided and will not produce their desired effects. In the U.S., recreational marijuana sales are legal in Colorado and Washington. Other movements around the world are underway, responding to...