We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]
Given all the hate-baiting that has taken place over the Park 51 site in New York, it was only a matter of time until we started seeing stories like this: ATF and FBI agents are investigating a Saturday morning fire that damaged four pieces of equipment and could halt construction at the site of the […]
This was only a matter of time: TSA screener Rolando Negrin is facing assault charges in a case that involves the controversial, full body scanners being adopted in airports as part of increased security measures. The images produced by the powerful x-ray scanners–detailed enough to show breast implants–have been compared to “virtual strip-searching.” Negrin reportedly […]
We knew stories like this were only a matter of time: Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business […]
Yesterday news came out that the New York Times is ready to announce a new “pay for content” model for their website. There has been a lot of talk lately of news organizations moving to this system, and with one of the leading newspapers making taking the plunge it will only be a matter of […]
Hearing more and more people from the tea party crowd and right argue that we shouldn’t help out Haiti is truly appalling. We aren’t talking about some unknown nation on the other side of the globe. We are talking about our neighbors, separated by only 300 miles of ocean. For me I think of it […]
We knew it was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney would crawl out from his undisclosed dungeon of torture and make some really absurd statement: “As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He […]
Image via Wikipedia We knew that it was only a matter of time before the public shifted the blame of the economic mess from Republicans to Democrats and that time has come: Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a […]
It was only a matter of time until we heard a story like this: A Marine reservist armed with a tire iron beat and chased a man he thought was an Arab terrorist and even called 911 to say he was detaining the man, police said. But the man he assaulted was actually a Greek […]
Just a couple of months ago the LGBT community was in an uproar over the Obama administration’s defense of DOMA. Now that is changing: The Obama administration distanced itself Monday from legal arguments it had made earlier this summer, taking pains to remove and renounce language that had outraged advocates in the gay community in […]