Again – these stories are becoming way too common: -New York City police say four Staten Island teenagers accused of bullying a Muslim classmate are now facing hate crime charges. The Staten Island Advance says the incidents occurred from October 2009 to June 2010. Authorities say the bullies called the boy a “terrorist,” frequently punched […]
Of course the cable news networks is still relatively silent on this (except Olberman last night): Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces erupted for a second day. […]
In 2000 most of us saw right through the political ambitions of Fox when they pronounced George Bush as the winner of the election. Of course those of us who saw that were labeled as conspiracy theorists by the far right, but since then it has been proven time and time again. Now the really […]
Now why doesn’t this surprise me? Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while he was a city official in the late 1990’s. He entered the pleas, one to a […]