As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason….
Category: Politics
The brutality of the CIA’s torture program under the leadership and direction of George Bush and Dick Cheney is quite frankly, terrifying. Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours…
But of course, the owner is now saying that he didn’t mean any harm by offering the “Mike Brown Shots!” Local TV station WDAF reported that Mug Shots, a bar in St. Joseph, Mo. whose motto is “where sarcasm is…
A classic case of the blame the victim mentality. We will be foolish to expect anything more from Fox News. In light of all the protests going on these days with people speaking out against police brutality throughout this country,…
In this week’s address, the President highlighted the good news in Friday’s jobs report – that American businesses added 314,000 new jobs this past month, making November the tenth month in a row that the private sector has added at…
Is it just me, or does it still not feel like the holidays yet? Perhaps the warmish, wet weather we’ve had here in the Northeast is partly to blame, or maybe it’s that the calendar has jammed the buying season…
Candy Crowley, a staple at CNN is packing up and leaving the network after working with there for 27 years. CNN president Jeff Zucker announced in a memo to staff on Friday. “[I]t is with mixed emotions, that I wanted…
Now this is something you probably haven’t heard in, like forever! On Wednesday, the same day a New York grand jury refused to hold police accountable in the choking death of Eric Garner, another grand jury in South Carolina brought…
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP) — U.S. employers added a whopping 321,000 jobs in November, the biggest burst of hiring in nearly three years and the latest sign that the United States is outperforming other economies throughout the developed world. The…
Jon Stewart was at a loss of words last night as he too tried to cope with the non-indictment decision handed down by the grand jury in the Eric Garner case. “I don’t know,” Stewart confessed. “I honestly don’t know…
Another grand jury is about to decide if a white police officer did anything wrong when he applied an illegal choke hold that led to another black man being murdered. The grand jury decision into the death of Eric Garner…