Somehow, through the lunacy of American politics, we have gotten to a place where a significant percentage of people think that it's a good idea for teachers at public schools to be carrying concealed weapons while trying to do their jobs.  

The news business was abuzz over the weekend with talk about the fact that Dan Rather has gone over to The Young Turks. And today, we got our first glimpse at what The News With Dan Rather was.

If you listen carefully, you'll hear it all the time on cable news: "Hillary Clinton indirectly paid Russians!" Republican congressmen like to slip it in during conversations and then let it sit there as "fact." And it almost never gets challenged.

In the last 24 hours, The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur has been under fire for some blog posts he wrote in the early 2000s.

The American people voting Donald Trump as the USA President has been very controversial and a large amount of people are unhappy with it. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson expressed interest in challenging Trump in 2020, although it sounds like he will have to delay this until 2024.

Matt Lauer has been fired from NBC News as of this morning. The firing came because of what NBC called 'inappropriate sexual behavior' although we don't know specifically what that means.

This evening, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks made a statement about the firing of reporter Jordan Chariton.

Less than a year ago, everything was going great for The Young Turks. The network, headed by Cenk Uygur, was doing better than ever, surpassing several billion views on Youtube, tens of thousands of subscribers, and dozens of channels and partners. And then in August, TYT announced that they had raised a whopping $20 million from seasoned names in the private equity industry.

A local TV station, KABC, made a shocking allegation this morning. According to anchorwoman Leeann Tweeden, Al Franken sexually assaulted her during a USO tour in December 2006. Here's waht Tweeden wrote about the incident:

A major shooting occurred today in multiple sites in the Rancho Tehama area in California. The shooting has killed at least 5 people including the shooter, and included multiple location -- one of those locations was Rancho Tehama Elementary School. There were seven separate scenes, and it appears there was some sort of domestic violence incident related to the shootings.