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Aug 16 2014
News
Darren Wilson named Michael Brown shooter
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson announced Friday morning that the officer who fatally shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown is Darren Wilson. At a news conference in Ferguson, Missouri, Jackson said Wilson has been a Ferguson police officer for six years. He has had no disciplinary action taken against him prior to the incident and has been treated for injuries following the altercation
PoliticoJun 03 2019
News
Ruth Bader Ginsburg flips, supporting conservative stance in criminal sentencing decision
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court, sided with her conservative colleagues on Monday over a prisoner's supervisory release. She joined Justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority, deciding that a criminal defendant, in this case Jason Mont, can be sentenced for violating his supervised release, even if the
TownhallJan 23 2020
News
Democrats will try again to expand voting options in deep red Alabama
An uphill drive is being revived to make casting a ballot easier in Alabama, which has been at the center of the struggle for voting rights in the United States for more than half a century.
Thomas Jackson, one of the longest serving Democrats in Montgomery, is already gathering support for bills to permit absentee voting without an excuse as well as mandate early voting in every county
The FulcrumOct 07 2019
Opinion
Don’t Be Fooled. Chief Justice John Roberts Is as Partisan as They Come.
He says he is concerned about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy in the eyes of the public. He should worry.
The Supreme Court’s new term that begins on Monday could prove momentous, with cases involving gun control, abortion, L.G.B.T. rights and immigration. The term is likely to signal how far the court’s conservative majority will go to block the agenda of the next Democratic president
New York Times (Opinion)Jul 15 2015
Opinion
Ingraham: Moderate Republicans an endangered species
Political scientists have known for years that political polarization is largely a one-sided phenomenon: in recent decades the Republican Party has moved to the right much faster than Democrats have moved to the left. As Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution has described it, "Republicans have become a radical insurgency — ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime,
Jun 05 2017
News
MSNBC Host: So, Is Trump Trying To Provoke Another Terrorist Attack For Political Gain?
Okay—we had Hollywood liberal go insane last week. We had Kathy Griffin do a disastrous mock beheading photo shoot, where she holds up a bloodied head of the president. Then, after the horrific terror attack in London over the weekend, which left seven people dead, including over 40 injured, Bette Midler tweeted that “men and religion are useless.” Now, on the news media side, you have MSNBC
TownhallAug 07 2020
Analysis
ABC Spikes Leaked Video of Floyd Arrest, CBS/NBC Edit Out ‘Stop Resisting’
Monday was the first chance the liberal broadcast networks had at giving their viewers a fuller understanding of the day George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer as two body camera videos were leaked to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. The videos show officers struggling to get Floyd into the cop car with an officer telling him to “stop resisting” at one point. ABC’s World News Tonight
NewsBustersMay 05 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Race, Politics and Lies
Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri -- but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by the demonstrable fact that a fleeing black man was shot dead by a white policeman in South
Thomas SowellSep 25 2014
News
Stocks plunge: Dow down 265; Apple sinks 3.8%
The police chief of Ferguson, Mo., issued a public apology on Thursday, in the death of Michael Brown, telling the Brown family directly in a short video that he was sorry for their loss and the four hours that the body was left in the street.
“I want to say this to the Brown family. No one who has not experienced the loss of a child can understand what you’re feeling,” the police chief
USA TODAYJan 13 2020
News
William Barr: Mass shooting by Saudi national was an act of terrorism
Attorney General William Barr announced Monday that the December mass shooting by a Saudi national that left three American sailors dead in Pensacola, Florida, was an act of terrorism.
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, allegedly shot and killed three U.S. Navy sailors — Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, Airman Mohammed Haitham, 19, and Airman
Washington Examiner