On Tuesday morning, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke on the floor of the Senate to express his disapproval of Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch. Ahead of a planned filibuster from Democratic members of the Senate, and a possible rule-change by the Republican faction in order to break the filibuster, Sanders made his message clear: “Rather than change …

Donald Trump and several of his associates from the campaign are being sued for inciting violence at a campaign rally in Kentucky in 2016.  A judge has ruled that the case can proceed, and that Trump’s charge to the audience of “go get ‘em outta here” (referring to two protesting women and a child) is not protected speech. Ring of …

“E-cigarettes,” or as they are more properly known, “electronic cigarettes,” have been around for well over fifty years, although the modern version has only been on the market for the past dozen years. Since that time, the use of e-cigarettes has increased exponentially. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control published in October of 2015, 3.7% of all …

Republicans in the House and Senate voted on and approved a measure this week that will allow Internet Service Providers to sell your browsing history to other companies.  The bill was heavily lobbied for by both ISPs and advertising firms, and Republicans claim that it helps the “free market.”  Not a single Democrat in the House or Senate voted in …

President Trump’s big beautiful wall along the Mexican border will have to wait a while. Trump had asked for supplemental funding to start construction on the wall to be included with military and defense spending, but lawmakers are unlikely to honor that request, according to a Tuesday report from the Associated Press. The current government spending bill expires on April …

Ted Koppel was one of the last great TV news journalists, and during an interview with Sean Hannity recently, he explained to Hannity that his style of reporting, and even just Hannity himself, is bad for this country. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: This past weekend, on an interview that aired on CBS, …

For going on three years now, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals has been making a very nice chunk of change from the federal Medicare program – more than half a billion dollars, in fact. This sizable revenue comes from sales of a drug that is prescribed by fewer than one in a hundred physicians, has never been through clinical trials, and is far …