President Obama says that the Boy Scouts should drop their national ban on allowing gay members. In an interview on Sunday, he was asked about his opinion regarding the recent announcement that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are considering allowing gays to participate in the organization.

The president said that the Scouts are "a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. And I think nobody should be barred from that."

In the weeks since the Newtown tragedy, it's seemed like everyone and their grandmother have had something to say about guns in America. But today it was Gabrielle Giffords who took her turn. The former Congresswoman shot in the head by a deranged gunman during a mass shooting in Arizona spoke from the heart in front of her former colleagues during the first congressional committee hearing on guns of 2013. 

This morning Gabrielle Giffords tried to turn the debate about guns and rights on its head. You see, for women like Gabrielle Giffords, whose speech still bears evidence of what gun violence did to her brain, this is not about the right to bear arms at all.

President Obama is now officially sworn in for a second term and oh, what a difference four years makes.

Not only was today's inauguration ceremony much smaller than his two-million people inauguration four years ago, but the president  now faces Americans who are beaten down by the recession, as well as a deeply divided Congress.

Can the president turn things around in his second term? That's what we're asking you today, in honor of the inauguration. How do you think President Obama's second term will go? Leave your thoughts in the comments and let us know.

Leave it to the National Rifle Association to come up with the most backward argument against gun control yet. In a new ad, the NRA targets the guns carried by the Secret Service to protect President Obama's daughters in what is meant to convince Americans that our "elitist" president is hoarding all the good stuff for his family.

Wait a minute, haven't we seen this one before? It's awfully close to that photo on Facebook that shows the Obama family surrounded by Secret Service, and littered across the photo is the word gun, multiple times. Both are propaganda supposed to make us outraged that the Obamas get guns. There's just one problem.

In the wake of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, America is once again talking about gun control, and it's a long-overdue conversation. We seem to be able to process when people do horrible things to grownups. But someone using an assault rifle to slaughter 20 babies? How did we ever let things get this far?

The acts of cold-blooded murderer Adam Lanza were so chilling, so horrifying to people across our nation that some people, people who have long been opposed to gun control measures, are finally starting to realize that something must change. In fact, two prominent conservatives have already publicly reversed their stances on gun control this week.

The devoutly Roman Catholic founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over the mandatory contraception coverage in Obamacare. Tom Monaghan says that the health care law violates his rights to practice his religion, which does not allow the use of hormonal birth control.

Once intricately involved in day-to-day operations, Monaghan sold Domino’s for $1 billion in 1998, and has devoted much of his time and money since to Catholic causes. He has said, “I want to die broke.”

Currently, Domino's Pizza offers a health care plan to its eligible employees that excludes contraceptives and abortions. That isn't to say that they don't hire women that choose to use it or that have had abortions -- that would be discrimination. The company is simply not willing to pay for other people’s lifestyle choices.

So our government is headed toward the fiscal cliff, and most people don’t even know what that means. However, they do think that we should cut spending, avoid raising the debt ceiling, and reform our entitlement programs to sustainable levels. So they reelected a president that wants to raise taxes and use 75 percent of that revenue for new spending. Because that makes sense -- in Bizarro World, at least.

So what is the fiscal cliff? Basically, legislators couldn't come to a budget agreement earlier this year, so they do what they always do -- punt. They borrowed some money and put serious fiscal ramifications in place if they didn't agree on a final budget by the end of the year. Guess what? They can't agree. So off the fiscal cliff we go -- with serious cuts in defense and other areas across the board.

Currently featured on the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) website is a class warfare-promoting eight-minute cartoon narrated by Ed Asner. The film makes the case that the wealthiest 1 percent of  Americans got that way by evading taxes and using loopholes and peeing on poor people.

That’s not an exaggeration, by the way. It actually depicts rich fat cats in suits taking a leak on the 99 percent. Which is kind of ironic, giving that it’s the Occupy Wall Street nut jobs calling themselves the 99 percent that have a penchant for public defecation.