Tony Ortega

President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and at the press during the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, and more than a few of his jokes left some of the Washington press corps with their jaws open.

Even after the city attorney told them it was a violation of church/state separation, the city council of little Cochran, Georgia, population 5,100, voted last week to fly the "Christian flag" over its City Hall. And the city manager tells us it's still flying there now.

A cartoon that criticized vaccinations and the pharmaceutical industry disappeared from the liberal DailyKos website today after an uproar by its readers.

What makes young people give up their lives and join ISIS? Over the past week, we've seen reports of troubling new examples of the Islamic State's hold on some people, who leave from various parts of Europe and even the United States to become volunteers for the brutal war zone in Syria and Iraq. Repeatedly, these stories express the frustration experts feel trying to understand what motivates recruits, some of whom are well off or have college degrees. Why are they giving up their lives in the West for one of the most dangerous places on Earth?

Tucson lawmaker Victoria Steele became the latest Democratic lawmaker to spill her guts about being the victim of sexual assault in order to try and slow down conservative Republicans who are bound and determined to chip away at the right to have an abortion.