The Dave Ross Commentary

the Oregon Working Families party has gotten the Oregon legislature to approve a pilot program called Pay It Forward where you would attend a state college and pay ZERO tuition with one catch...

The NSA surveillance story seems to have astounded the world for the sheer sweep of the conversations the US government is able to record. But in a way, we couldn't help ourselves.

Strange how things work on a day when we celebrate throwing off military rule in favor of Democracy, Egypt throws off Democracy in favor of military rule. At least temporarily.

As Washington and Colorado move ahead on the rules for legalizing marijuana, it's opening a new debate on pot safety. Is pot really healthier than alcohol and cigarettes or just as dangerous?

Typically atheists try to get monuments removed from government property. Like Daniel Cooney, who tried to get the Ten Commandments monument removed from the grounds of the Bradford County courthouse in Starke, Florida.

Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the Edward Snowden story, addressed a convention of Socialists over the weekend via Skype and said he doesn't understand why big-name journalists are condemning him when they should be applauding him

You were injured defending your country - why shouldn't your government give you a little boost? And so it was that Brulio Castillo, who got millions in government contracts using a disability preference, was called before a congressional committee

IT took just 13 hours for Texas State Senator Wendy Davis to get national name recognition for filibustering that Texas abortion bill. And now she's using that fame to try to change the national debate.

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the heart of the Defense of Marriage Act turns out to be a really weird decision.

This is not the usual position we Americans find ourselves in getting schooled on subjects like diplomacy and human rights by countries like China and Ecuador and now Russia!

Edward Snowden's case turns out not just to be about our government's snooping operations. It's about various countries getting a free shot at dissing the United States.

Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, was able to leave Hong Kong on a commercial jet on Sunday the authorities just waved him through. CBS' Correspondent Major Garrett wondered why would Hong Kong not help us arrest Edward Snowden?

The price of a compromise immigration bill in the Senate appears to be a wall along the southern border with Mexico. A wall that would be the most elaborate fortified border since the one built by the old USSR to separate East and West Germany.

There have been studies in the past showing that when certain kinds of people listen to certain kinds of radio, they can get distracted.

Exodus International, which tried to cure Christians of gayness, Closes Down, and apologizes.