Don’t get me wrong. What’s happened over the past five weeks has been a colossal, epic failure on President Obama’s part. All he needed to say about the health care law was that you could keep your insurance if it…
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If there was ever time the public would clamor for vigilante justice, this would definitely be one of them. A formerly renowned Los Angeles teacher of elementary schoolchildren has been sentence to decades of hard time after pleading no contest…
DETROIT — Police officers in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., have opened an internal investigation after a Detroit blog posted photos and videos that show members of the police force allegedly harassing African-American men, The Huffington Post has…
UPDATE: 11/15/13, 3:02 P.M. ET Theodore P. Wafer was arraigned on second-degree murder, manslaughter and felony firearms charges this afternoon at the Dearborn Heights District Court, reports MyFoxDetroit. Wafer’s bail was set at $250,000, with a preliminary examination set for Dec. 18….
Reginald Wells, a 12-year-old student at Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, Texas was allegedly knocked unconscious by his assistant math teacher last Friday after making a joke about his favorite football team, reports CBS News. Wells was standing in…
Jane Elliot is a teacher and diversity trainer who developed the “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise to teach students what it feels like to be a person of color. This video begins pretty abruptly, where one of the students who’s been…
After allegedly being stripped, beaten and bit by 7-Eleven employees last year, accused candy-thief David Golson is finally having his day in court. The 30-year-old Bronx man is suing 7-Eleven, claiming “emotional distress,” according to documents he filed in the Bronx…
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists has bought almost $15m of Americans’ personal debt over the last year as part of the Rolling Jubilee project to help people pay off their outstanding credit. Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy’s Strike Debt…
The President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, says the death toll from Friday’s typhoon may be lower than first thought. In an interview with CNN, he said the number of 10,000 killed was “too high” and the figure was more…
The teenage gunman who allegedly opened fire on a crowded ice-skating rink over a pricey jacket — hitting two people, including a boy who may never walk again — was all smiles and swear words as cops hauled him from…
A daring rescue by the Louisiana family of Bethany Arceneaux resulted in the killing of Bethany’s abductor and the successful rescue of Bethany. On Wednesday, Bethany was abducted by her boyfriend and father of her child. Police was initially unable…
President Obama has certainly got himself into a pickle over his health care law, but that really shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention to the issue since 2009 when the law was first formulated. Throughout its life, the ACA…