North Korea has decided to once again up the rhetorical ante by threatening an attack on Guam, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland. This comes after a litany of other threats that seemed to have been mostly ignored by the international community as a new round of UN sanctions were passed in the wake of North [...]

Hawaii actually kicked off the gay marriage debate in the early 1990s, after their state Supreme Court found a ban on same-sex unions illegal. Voters later changed the state Constitution to allow the ban, but over a decade later, the legislature convincingly passed a bill allowing civil unions. But Hawaii’s outgoing Republican Governor, Linda Lingle, [...]

I don’t think Rush Limbaugh realized at the time what a colossal blunder his “I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with the American health care system” comment would turn out to be. And it all comes down to the fact that he was vacationing in Hawaii, which really doesn’t have a health care system [...]