Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:13:19 am
The law enforcement response to the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson has been troubling in all aspects, but the local police (including Ferguson PD, St. Louis County Police, and other agencies) treatment of journalists is especially so. Journalists are being harassed at ...

Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:45:26 am
I first became aware of the "bring back Mitt" movement among establishment-type Republicans last month when Politico gave the world The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016. This was authored by definite partisan (a former Romney staffer and fellow private equity guy), but appeared in a not especially partisan ...

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:58:53 am
The man in the photo below, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, was born & raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. He studied hard and received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, then went on to earn a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of London. He subsequently ...

Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:47:18 pm
Following up on our post about the wildly exaggerated claims made about the purported XKeyScore source code released in Germany this week by hacker Jacob Applebaum, here's a very interesting post by cybersecurity expert Robert Graham with evidence that the code may have been at least partly faked: Errata Security: ...

Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:50:01 am
Here's a good lengthy article at the Washington Post on the Tea Party's all-out push in Mississippi to get out the vote for racist, homophobic neo-Confederate candidate Chris McDaniel: In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots Try to Prove Their Worth. I think this is my favorite part of ...

Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:40:21 pm
Vimeo As we're being drawn yet again into the mess created by the Bush administration's disastrous war of choice in Iraq, here are some interesting and very pertinent comments from Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich on the immoral nature of "preventive" war. BILL MOYERS: What is it about how we go ...

Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:27:40 pm
Video VIDEO: Heritage Foundation's Benghazi Panelists Mock Muslim Student Speakers at a Heritage Foundation panel mocked a Muslim student who pointed out that Muslim Americans were not represented at the forum and stated that conservative rhetoric on Islam is often starkly negative. Continue reading at Media Matters. Anti-Muslim Conpiracy Theorist, Brigitte Gabriel ...

Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:22:21 am
[large]December 4, 2008[/large] Fact Sheet: The Strategic Framework Agreement and the Security Agreement with Iraq To Ensure That The Security Agreement Is Consistent With The Capacity Of Iraq's Security Forces, The Dates Included In This Agreement Were Discussed With The Iraqis, General Petraeus, And General Odierno - They Allow For The ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:42:27 pm
Here's some cheery news for a lazy Friday afternoon, as a newly declassified document reveals new details from an incident in January 1961, when the US Air Force nearly nuked North Carolina -- twice. Video (CNN) -- On a January night in 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber broke in ...

Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:05:48 pm
Vimeo Laughter is universal, but we know very little about the reasons we do it. Dr. Robert Provine has been studying the social and neurological roots of laughter for 20 years, and has come to surprising conclusions about how we operate as human beings. For more on the health benefits of ...

Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:31:32 pm
Right wing fringe figures like Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (dubbed "Joe the Plumber" in one of the most hideous political moments in recent history) are still covering themselves in glory, following the awful mass murder in Isla Vista. Joe's message to the families of the victims: he's really sorry and all, ...

Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:32:27 pm
The former head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations looks at Edward Snowden and sees a narcissistic delusional under-achiever -- the perfect candidate to be persuaded to betray his country. In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald tells how Edward Snowden once confided to him, "with ...

Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:46:18 pm
The details coming out of Oklahoma about the botched execution of inmate Clayton Lockett are barbaric. McALESTER, Okla. (AP) -- The director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections says an inmate whose execution was halted because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched has died of a heart ...

Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:12:41 am
I agree with and support this decision; Ms. Ali has allowed her experiences with the worst sorts of Islamic fundamentalists to shape her view of all Muslims. She has fallen into the narrow viewpoint of the standard Islamophobe that moderate Islam can not exist, much less outweigh or overcome the ...

Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:44:54 am
Almost immediately after the Boston Marathon bombings, Glenn Beck fixated on a 20-year old Saudi Arabian student, Abdulrahman Alharbi, who was actually injured in the attacks but was briefly questioned by police. Beck went absolutely ballistic, calling the student a "proven terrorist" and the "money man" behind the bombings. The ...

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:47:12 pm
Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com Nebraska Judge Stephanie F. Stacy has struck down a law that allowed the state government to approve the route of the Keystone XL pipeline and seize property for it through eminent domain, because it violates the state's constitution: Nebraska Judge Strikes Down Legislature's Move Allowing Keystone XL ...

Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:40:58 pm
Right Wing Watch notices today that in his latest column for the National Review, Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian is openly citing infamous white nationalist Sam Francis: Krikorian Cites White Nationalist in Anti-Reform Pitch. Mark KrikorianIn his latest column for the National Review Online, Krikorian responds to a ...

Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:31:37 pm
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative. The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed ...

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:31:18 am
Say what you want about Fox News, but they do know their target audience: Fundamentalist Christian pastor Robert Jeffress appeared Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss his new book, Perfect Ending, which suggests the president's policies were conditioning Americans to rely on the government and make them vulnerable ...

Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:01:24 pm
Sean Wilentz has an excellent piece at the New Republic today, delving into the backgrounds of Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange: What They Believe. We live in the age of the leaker. Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange are celebrated as heroes on op-ed pages and across glossy ...

Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:08:02 am
Robert Gates smacked down Republicans who are using his book to criticize President Obama by saying, "I agreed with all the president's decisions on Afghanistan." Video More: Robert Gates Smacks Down the GOP, 'I Agreed With All the President's Decisions on Afghanistan.'

Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:27:55 am
Robert Knight, a columnist for the far right Washington Times and a "fellow" at the American Civil Rights Union (one of those right wing groups that actually promotes the exact opposite of what its name implies), advises the Republican Party that in light of recent polls showing belief in evolution ...

Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:06:40 pm
On Ice: 100 Year-Old Negatives Discovered in Antarctic Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years. These negatives were meticulously processed and restored by a Wellington ...

Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:25:51 am
Remember when Sarah Palin instantly jumped onto Fox News to support the anti-gay and racist comments by Duck Dynasty's head cretin Phil Robertson? "Free speech is an endangered species. Those 'intolerants' hatin' and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us." ...

Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:05:16 pm
2013 saw quite a few politicians and prominent people abusing the English language, and specifically using the absurd argument that events and actions in the present are just like what Hitler and the Nazis did during the Holocaust. It's Reductio ad Hitlerum and in the process it debases the terminology ...