A neo-Nazi party that wants work camps for immigrants is on course to win its first seats in parliament on Sunday by Daniel Howden It started, as many days do in Greece, with a trip to the kiosk to buy… Read More ›
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Daniel Chong, U.S. Man Left In Cell For 4 Days, Entered ‘Survival Mode’
By JULIE WATSON and KEVIN FREKING SAN DIEGO — The case of a detained college student who was forgotten in a holding cell for more than four days suggests a breakdown in procedure and oversight within the Drug Enforcement Administration,… Read More ›
Lesbian seeking marriage license arrested in NC
(AP) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office… Read More ›
Left-Wing Music Continued
If you turn on the local top 40 or top 100 radio station you are bound to hear many catchy songs of various types. However, if you actually take time to examine the content of current popular songs, you’ll quickly… Read More ›
New Account: Zimmerman Told Cops Trayvon’s Last Words Were ‘Okay, You Got It’
UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the court’s decision on Friday, Apr. 20, to release Zimmerman on $150,000 bail. Last December, George Zimmerman hosted a small gathering at a clubhouse in Lake Mary, Fla. He invited family members… Read More ›
Romanian government is latest victim of EU austerity
Romania’s government fell after a no-confidence vote and the leadership of the Czech Republic narrowly survived a similar challenge Friday in the latest challenges to European efforts to heal the Continent’s debt crisis with tough spending cuts and higher taxes…. Read More ›
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
JERUSALEM — Israeli prison officials say that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who declared a hunger strike two weeks ago are continuing to refuse food as they demand better conditions. Sivan Weizman of Israel’s prison authority said Monday that 1,450 remain… Read More ›
President Barack Obama defiles the legacy of International Workers Day by announcing “Loyalty Day”
Presidential Proclamation — Loyalty Day, 2012 LOYALTY DAY, 2012 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION More than two centuries ago, our Founders laid out a charter that assured the rule of law and the rights… Read More ›
Why Conservatives Are Smearing Trayvon Martin’s Reputation
by Michelle Goldberg Conservatives are focusing on Trayvon’s tweets, appearance, school suspension over marijuana traces, and the hoodie he was wearing to blame him for his own death—and to show that his killing had nothing to do with racism. Plus… Read More ›
Pentagon Sought to Stop Paper From Using Photos
The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks. Two of the 18… Read More ›
Are Guns the Problem?
Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›
The Violence of Poverty
by ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN On April 22, 1968, the National Welfare Rights Organization held a vigil on Capitol Hill in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered eighteen days earlier. This was to have been the day that… Read More ›
Hundreds march in Phoenix against Arizona immigration law
(Reuters) – A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading “no to racial profiling,” marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block Arizona’s two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigrants. “My message to the Supreme Court… Read More ›
New Jersey dad unveils a culture of teacher abuse in autistic son’s elementary school
NJ dad bugs son over suspicion of school mistreatment (CNN) — A New Jersey man has launched a website to publicize what he calls “a culture of bullying” by teachers in his son’s Cherry Hill classroom after sending the boy… Read More ›
Spokeswoman: Bachmann ‘Tar Baby’ Quote Not Racial
A spokeswoman says U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wasn’t referring to race when she used the term “tar baby” to attack President Barack Obama’s energy policy. The Minnesota Republican told a conservative blog Wednesday that Obama’s calls for more regulation of… Read More ›
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