TagsTagsA stunning admission today in the News Corp. hacking scandal; as Rupert Murdoch's company settled with some of the phone hacking victims, lawyers for the victims announced that senior News Corp. employees and directors had admitted to knowing about the illegal operations, deceiving investigators, and destroying evidence: Murdoch Company Settles ...
Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, News Corp, Britain, Phone Hacking, Crime
In the amoral universe of James O'Keefe and his political hack friends like Andrew Breitbart, it never matters how many innocent people are smeared or hurt on the way to one of their "scoops." But this story is heartbreaking, as the grieving widow of a recently deceased US Navy veteran was ...
James O'Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, Voter Fraud, Stunt, Crime, New Hampshire
James O'Keefe and his idiot squad (aka "Project Veritas"), who committed voter fraud in New Hampshire in order to help Republicans promote their "voter ID" laws across the nation, are being investigated by the US Attorney's Office and the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, and New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch ...
James O'Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, Voter Fraud, Stunt, Crime, New Hampshire
In his latest moronic, almost certainly illegal right wing stunt, fraudster James O'Keefe scoured obituary listings for the names of recently deceased New Hampshire residents, then sent his operatives to polling stations where they tried to obtain ballots for those dead voters. The Daily Caller is hyping this bogus story as ...
More details are emerging about the alleged perpetrator of a string of firebomb attacks in Queens, New York, and we now have confirmation that the suspect, Ray Lazier Lengend, is a violent anti-Muslim bigot: Alleged Queens firebomber wanted to massacre Muslims in mosque, prosecutors say. THE UNHINGED Queens pyromaniac who ...
Anti-Muslim, Terrorism, Bigotry, Crime, Queens, Pamela Geller, Threats
In Belgium today, a gunman with an automatic rifle opened fire on a crowded square in the city of Liege, leaving at least three people dead and scores injured. Earlier reports of more than one gunman were mistaken; it's now confirmed that the attacker, Nordine Amrani, was acting alone. Amrani was ...
Anti-Muslim, Hate Speech, Bigotry, Pamela Geller, Mass Murder, Crime, Belgium, Robert Spencer
At Virginia Tech, where a student gunman killed 32 people before committing suicide in 2007, a policeman has been killed and there are reports of a second victim... UPDATE at 12/8/11 11:00:21 am AP now reports that the second shooting victim has died as well...
Imagine my surprise to discover that accused White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez drew some of the inspiration for his crazed conspiracy theories from Alex Jones. Jake Chapman is also scheduled to make the trip to Washington. The AK-47 that Mr. Ortega is accused of using to fire on the ...
Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones, President Obama, Crime, White House, Far Right
My post last night pointing out that the alleged White House shooter's ideology has much more in common with the far right than with any leftist group drew the usual hate mail from right wingers, outraged that I would attempt to debunk their absurd propaganda with things like facts. Here's one ...
White House, Crime, President Obama, Right Wing, Anti-Christ, Hate Mail
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama, and in light of the right wing blogosphere's ongoing attempts to link Ortega to the Occupy Wall Street protests, it should be pointed out that what we know so far about his delusional ideas falls much more in ...
White House, Crime, President Obama, Right Wing, Anti-Christ, Bad Craziness
Right wing blogs immediately tried to link the alleged White House shooter to Occupy Wall Street, but tonight authorities announced they have found no connection between Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez and the demonstrations. Ortega-Hernandez, whose permanent place of residence is unclear, has a record of arrests on minor counts in Texas, ...
The suspect in the shooting incident at the White House has been arrested at a hotel in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service says a man has been arrested on suspicion of firing a bullet at the White House. "On Wednesday afternoon at approximately 12:35 p.m. EST, based on information generated by Secret ...
Police in Washington DC are searching for a man they suspect of shooting at the White House, after the discovery of a bullet that hit a window: DC Shooting Suspect Could Be Threat to Obama, Police Say. ABC News has learned authorities are increasingly concerned that a man sought in ...
Four members of a Georgia militia have been charged by the FBI with plotting terror attacks using the biological poison ricin. Video "When it comes time to saving the Constitution, that means some people gotta die," an arrest affidavit quotes one of the defendants, Frederick Thomas, as saying during one recorded ...
Georgia, Militia, Terrorism, Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Crime
The hacking scandal that has seriously damaged Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (owner of Fox News) may be coming to the US; CNN reports that the FBI is now investigating a News Corp subsidiary for allegedly hacking into the computers of a rival business: Video
Today, 8 people were allegedly shot and killed at a Seal Beach beauty salon by suspect Scott DeKraai as reported by the Los Alamitos Seal Beach Patch: Seal Beach shooting suspect in custody Scott DeKraai. Eight people were killed and one critically wounded Wednesday afternoon when a heavily armed gunman wearing ...
Seal Beach, Massacre, Shooting, NRA, Gun Violence, Tea Party, PTSD, Crime
According to this story at the Reno Gazette-Journal, at least seven people have been shot by a suspect with a semi-automatic weapon...
A new study from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence shows that over the past two years, US gun manufacturers have 'lost' more than 16,000 guns. The report, released by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, pulled data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ...
In what's becoming a disturbingly common story, an unstable anti-Muslim bigot was arrested today in Oregon on charges of firebombing a mosque last November: Man accused of hate crime in Corvallis mosque arson. Cody Seth CrawfordCORVALLIS -- Federal law enforcement authorities arrested Cody Seth Crawford, 24, Wednesday night on a ...
Oregon, Hate Crime, Mosque, Bigotry, Violence, Crime, Anti-Muslim
Things got worse for Anthony Weiner today, as police visited the house of a 17-year old girl with whom he was apparently communicating on Twitter: Anthony Weiner admits contact with girl, 17. New potential Twitter-related troubles arose for Rep. Anthony Weiner on Friday, after Delaware police reportedly spoke with a ...
NPR's Morning Edition has a piece on admitted criminal James O'Keefe's latest deceptively edited sting video: Elements Of NPR Gotcha Video Taken Out Of Context. Video The only mystery here is why anyone still reacts to these ugly right wing hit jobs by firing the targets and issuing apologies, then having to ...
James O'Keefe, Crime, Sting, NPR, Right Wing, Demonization, Fraud
Five members and associates of an Alaskan right wing militia have been arrested and charged in an alleged plot to kidnap and/or murder state troopers and a Fairbanks judge. Oddly, none of them seem to be Muslims. Francis "Schaeffer" Cox, Lonnie Vernon, Karen Vernon, Coleman Barney and Michael Anderson are accused ...
Alaska, Right Wing, Militias, Sovereign Citizen, Extremism, Crime, Terrorism
The FBI has arrested a suspect in the attempted bombing of the MLK parade in Spokane, Washington: a home-grown American neo-Nazi. Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was a member ...
Crime, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Spokane, Pipe Bomb, Martin Luther King, Neo-Nazis
ACORN sting film editor and admitted felon James O’Keefe is at it again, with a video that catches an NPR fundraiser, Ron Schiller (who has left NPR already), in the act of telling the truth. Notice that this time, O'Keefe's actors posed as scary Muslims, of course; his pattern of ...
Rev. Grant Storms, a New Orleans gay-hating "Christian patriot," was arrested on Friday for masturbating at a children's playground. Storms, 53, was taken into custody at Lafreniere Park after two women reported seeing him masturbating in the driver's seat of his van, which was parked near the carousel and playground, ...
New Orleans, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Grant Storms, Hypocrisy, Crime