Domestic terrorism anyone? SPOKANE, Wash. — A backpack found along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb “capable of inflicting multiple casualties,” the FBI said Tuesday, describing the case as “domestic terrorism.” The FBI said the Swiss Army-brand backpack was found about 9:25 a.m. PST on Monday on […]
Classy guy here: The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned Thursday after the campaign acknowledged that he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Christopher Hightower’s resignation came five hours after he told the […]
So far 10 teabaggers have been arrested today in the Capital Hill protests: They were charged with unlawful entry (entering a Congressional office and refusing to leave when told to do so) and/or disorderly conduct (yelling in the hallway outside an office) at Room 235 in the Cannon House Office Building. Room 235 is Speaker […]
While junior is off at college learning how to grow up to be a good Republican tool, he makes the mistake of saying what he really thinks: The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet. […]
So it turns our Mitt Romney’s father did not march with Martin Luther King, and now Romney is trying to brush off the comment by saying he was speaking “figuratively”. Figuratively? Is that some fancy new wingnut word for lying? It amazes me how these Republicans get out there and try to out holy the […]
These damn Christians just have to keep up their bogus claims that their religion is “under attack”. Here is the latest from these claims: Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant. Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, […]
This should really spark a heated discussion and calls of partisanship from the right: Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver a scathing speech Monday at Constitution Hall in Washington — just blocks from the White House — at which he will declare America is faced with a constitutional crisis, RAW STORY has learned. The […]
Leave it to the awesome reporting of the Nation to remind us of historical facts we may have forgotten about: For the generations who came of age after the mid-1970s, it is worth recalling why warrantless domestic surveillance so shocks the political system. It needs to be repeated that the same arguments cited by Bush–inherent […]