Sorry John D of Longmont, Colorado and the 34,000+ other who signed the Death Star petition: the White House has responded and the answer is no.
The federal government will not...
The White House's "We The People" online petition site has seen some ridiculous petitions gain steam over the past couple of months. First, there was the...
Your move, White House.
Among the many pressing issues facing our great nation, the people have rallied together in support of the most pressing one of all: our reckless lack of...
Austin, Texas residents famously want to "keep Austin weird." It looks like many of them also want to keep Austin a part of the United States.
I'm sure you've been following...
If the situation over at the White House petition site wasn't already silly, now it's official. As the number of petitions to allow states to secede from the United States continu...
Some people are taking the election results pretty hard, or at least had the election serve as a catalyst for their previously-held secessionist beliefs. Maybe it's the fact that...
You remember the White House's "We the People" initiative, right? Back in September of 2011, they launched the site as an online forum for user-submitted petitions. In short, a p...
As MPAA chairman, former Senator Chris Dodd had to address all of the SOPA backlash coming from every corner of the internet. And boy did he. Dodd went on a tear, calling the Wik...
When all else fails, I guess it doesn't hurt to try to appeal to our basic human absurdity meters - that little radar engrained in (most) everyone's mind that when tripped, helps t...