Street’s largest banks and lift the cap on contributions to Social Security. “If Congress cannot regulate Wall Street, there is just one alternative,” said Sanders in a speech Saturday. “It is time to break these too-big-to-fail banks up so that they can never again destroy the jobs, homes, and life savings of the American people.” Sanders, who has signaled he …

Early Friday evening Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor and gave a plain-spoken, barn-burning speech that could make history and put her into serious contention to be the next President of the United States. There are only a handful of political speeches that have such historic impact. Barack Obama’s keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention comes readily …

Tuesday’s attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, which claimed the lives of 132 children and nine staff, was the bloodiest school siege worldwide in nearly a decade and the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan’s recent history. Amid an outpouring of anguish and condemnation in Pakistan and around the world, the Pakistani Taliban was quick to claim credit. “We selected …

Televangelist Pat Robertson predicts that gays will die out because they don’t reproduce. Robertson was responding to a viewer who belongs to a church in which congregants aren’t allowed to date. “It is treated as a sin to show interest in or have a mutual understanding in church with the opposite sex,” wrote Crystal. “Most of the people in church …

In case you have not noticed, The Catholic Establishment freaks out whenever religious iconography is “desecrated,” aka someone else besides them is making money off it. In the latest case, noted homophobes the Catholic League are freaking out because Tom Ford put a dick in the shape of a cross at the end of a necklace. As a result, the …

Coloradoans are now among the many Americans living in states where gay marriage is legal. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Tuesday that the state’s Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex couples to legally marry. Suthers said the state’s county clerks must issue marriage licenses to gay couples. “There are no remaining legal requirements that prevent same-sex couples …

While half of American voters say they could see themselves supporting Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, 48 percent could not, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. That makes Clinton “the early presidential front-runner — but barely,” NBC reports. More voters said they would prefer to see a Republican in the White House (40 percent) than a …