Desmond Hatchett: Man With 30 Kids Requests Child-Support Break

A 33-year-old Knoxville, Tenn. man with 30 children appeared in court this week to ask the state for child-support help, Memphis news station WREG reported Wednesday. Desmond Hatchett has fathered 30 children -- which is believed to be the record in Knox county, according to t …

Cameron Todd Willingham Exoneration Was Written But Never Filed By Texas Judge

A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire.

NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality 'Unequivocally'

Today marks another step forward — and trouble for the National Organization of Marriage's plan to drive a wedge between LGBT voters and black voters. The NAACP has endorsed marriage equality, as first reported by Senior Vice President Maxim Thorne on Twitter. The NAACP Boar …

Man charged with alleged threat to blow up Dem Party offices ~~~ The kill Obama song

William O. Diederich, 61, repeatedly threatened to shoot Democrats and those supporting the recall of Gov. Scott Walker in phone calls he made to the Democratic Party's office at 110 King St. in January, February and March, according to an affidavit by FBI agent Joseph Lavelle, f …

Catholic Bishops Threaten to Sue for Their Right to Hate Lady Parts | AlterNet

You'd think, after such a resounding "@!$%# off" from the American public, the bishops might leave women's health care alone and go back to focusing on those important things they claim to care about. But when the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Cath …

Female Stockbrokers Make Less Than Male Counterparts, Study Finds

Nearly 50 years after the United States passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the move toward achieving gender parity in the workplace is still incomplete.  As Rachel Maddow noted on her show earlier this month,"If you aggregate everybody working in the economy in every job,  …

Ethan Rome: More Hypocrisy From GOP's Crack Team of Health Care Con Artists

The Republican leaders in Congress have mostly defined themselves by what they're against, but now they've announced what they're for -- the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I can only imagine the political identity crisis this is causing within the GOP. Th …

Under-Mom'd One Million Moms Throws Hissy Fit at GAP

Yesterday, One Million Moms, “a project” of the hate group known as the American Family Association, posted an alert on their Facebook page:

Andy Gipson, Mississippi GOP Lawmaker, Blasts Gays, Cites Bible Passage Calling For Their Death

Mississippi state Rep. Andy Gipson (R) weighed in on President Barack Obama's gay marriage decision last week, invoking a bible passage that calls for gay men to be "put to death." In a May 10 Facebook post, Gipson called homosexuality a "sin," citing Leviticus 20:13 and Roman …

WATCH: Paul Krugman Wonders If Boehner, Other Republicans Are 'Manchurian Candidates'

Appearing on "Martin Bashir" Friday afternoon, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that Republican leaders' economic policy is so destructive that "sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles –Manchurian Candidates – for I don’t know who." (Watch ab …

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