Donald Trump's bid to shamelessly use police officers to promote his campaign, was shut down by New York City's police commissioner Bill Bratton after the Dallas mass shooting.
Kudos to NYPD Commissioner Bratton for not allowing Donald Trump to use the police in the same disgraceful way that war veterans were used earlier this year. Enough is enough.
Yes, as Republicans should remember when their convention opens in less than a month, on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s disparagement of John McCain as unheroic because he was “captured.” McCain was captured (with a broken leg and two broken arms) when North Vietnamese shot down his plane. He chose extra years of torture, refusing to leave when his torturers wanted to release him because he was an admiral’s son.
Trump says, however, that he, too, has been “very brave” by ignoring the danger of venereal disease during his sexual adventures: “It is a dangerous world out there — it’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam, I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” He was serious; irony is not in this narcissist’s repertoire.
Leading climate doomsayer Michael Mann recently downplayed the importance of climate change science, telling Democrats that data and models "increasingly are unnecessary" because the impact is obvious.
n Arizona pastor known for his virulently anti-LGBT views went on a podium-stomping tirade recently after businesses began cutting off their services to his and other bigoted pastors’ churches, the Friendly Atheist reports.
Pastor Steven Anderson, who heads the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, lashed out this week at activists who successfully petitioned businesses like PayPal and Apple to shut down his accounts after his hate speech. While Anderson posted his June 22 sermon on a website called Archive, the Friendly Atheist uploaded a sampling to YouTube.
After the June 12 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Anderson posted a video in which he said there are “50 less pedophiles” in the world. Forty-nine people were killed in the mass shooting at the gay nightclub.
Anderson has been reaping the consequences of his words, and he is not happy about it.
A corruption probe at the New York Police Department has cast a harsh light on how people get handgun permits in a city that boasts some of the nation's toughest gun laws.
Visiting his Scotland golf course following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said that Brexit meant the people “want to be able to have a country again.” A British comedian protesting Trump threw a bucket of Nazi-themed golf balls at the presidential candidate, RT’s Polly Boiko reports.
PPP polls of Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, and Missouri revealed that four long-term Republican incumbents could lose their seats if they obstruct President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
Ted Busiek, who is running for Massachusetts Senate, responded on Saturday by lauding Trump’s remarks.“DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993. How I love this fellow,” he wrote.
Not only Trump and Sanders stand in opposition to TPP, however. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the candidate most aligned with the Obama administration, having served in it as secretary of state, has come out against TPP as it's currently structured.
In March, Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker issued a subpoena demanding that the energy giant produce four decades of internal records related to the company’s understanding of climate change.
Walker, who has accused Exxon Mobil of manufacturing a product that is "destroying this earth," is examining whether the company violated the territory's anti-racketeering laws.
Flint's state-appointed emergency manager told an engineering company to do no more than the minimum required by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality as it helped prepare the city's water treatment plant for full-time operation three years ago, the company says in a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal.
In the thick of mosquito season, Congress is about to start its holiday break with no deal on money to combat the Zika virus -- and no signs that a compromise is looming in the five-month debate.
Seventy-one percent think the U.S. economic system is "rigged in favor of certain groups," according to a new poll by Marketplace and Edison Research.The poll asked a simple question: Which of the following comes closer to your opinion on the economic system in the U.S. People could select between three options:1. The economic system is rigged in favor of certain groups 2. The economy system is fair to all Americans 3. Don't knowMost selected rigged economy. It didn't matter if the person was white, black or Hispanic or whether they identified as Republican, Democrat or Independent. The majority feel the American Dream comes with huge asterisk that reads "only for the favored few."
A Chilean court ordered that a prominent former senator be placed under nighttime house arrest, while authorities investigate him for possible tax fraud and bribery.
Pablo Longueira, who was a presidential candidate in Chile's 2013 election, is accused by prosecutors of receiving close to $1 million from specialty mining company SQM from 2009 to 2013, then hiding the donations through falsified receipts in contravention of Chilean law. He also is accused of accepting bribes while working on a 2010 law that regulates mining concessions.
The order for Longueira's arrest came late on Wednesday night, six days after a court jailed conservative senator Jaime Orpis after he was convicted of falsifying donation receipts.
It also comes the day after Chile's public prosecutor said it was investigating a former high-level cabinet official in leftist President Michelle Bachelet's government for bribery and tax offenses.
Longueira has maintained his innocence.
"I understand the charges and I don't agree with them," he said during a brief appearance before a judge.
The current scandal caused Longueira to resign in March from the UDI party, which was founded by right-wing allies of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
A Texas energy mogul known in the media as the “frack master” allegedly carried out an elaborate $80 million fraud scheme to fund his extravagant lifestyle, including a penchant for strippers, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the Securities...
Anti-gay Christian pastor Steven Anderson rose to notoriety long before the Orlando shooting. For years, he's been at the forefront of anti-LGBT and anti-woman
Nearly three years after San Diego struggled to remove embattled Mayor Bob Filner from office, city officials say they’re ready to put greatly expanded opportunities to oust wayward officials on the November ballot.
Some of the new removal methods are more aggressive than what other cities allow, such as suspending officials when they’ve been criminally charged but not convicted, and letting the City Council put a removal vote on the ballot by simply declaring "no confidence" in the mayor or city attorney.
A new poll shows Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) tied with his Democratic challenger as years of lies about President Obama may be finally catching up the Congressman from California.
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Kudos to NYPD Commissioner Bratton for not allowing Donald Trump to use the police in the same disgraceful way that war veterans were used earlier this year. Enough is enough.