Print William Bigelow Read Full Bio Salon.com: Americans Should Hope The Boston Bomber Is A White Domestic Terrorist David Sirota, writing for Salon.com, postulates that Americans should hope that the bomber responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings is a white domestic terrorist. Sirota avers that Americans treat white domestic terrorists in a different manner from other terrorists; they are never lumped together with other whites to form a group that should be targeted, because of what he calls “the dynamics of privilege.” 17 Apr 2013 Gadsden HS Baseball Coaches File Complaint Against Umpire Who Prohibited Player from Speaking Spanish An umpire who ordered a Latino player on an Albuquerque, New Mexico high school baseball team to stop speaking Spanish is the subject of a complaint filed by the player’s coaches. Corey Jones, who was the first-base umpire for a game between Gadsden High School and Alamogordo High School, told the Gadsen first-baseman to stop speaking Spanish, apparently because he thought there was some foul language involved. 16 Apr 2013 Number of Teachers in California Plummeting The number of educators pursuing a teaching credential in California fell 12% last year, the eighth year in a row of decline. Students who were intending to become teachers by taking teacher preparation programs numbered roughly 17,000 less in 2010-11 than in 2006-07. 15 Apr 2013 Thatcher's Legacy Continues In Her Own Family Perhaps the great Margaret Thatcher’s legacy didn’t die with her, in a literal sense. Thatcher’s granddaughter Amanda, who is 19, is studying in a college in Richmond, Virginia, and was voted “the most likely to change the world” by her fellow students. 14 Apr 2013 Alleged McConnell Bugger Shawn Reilly Longtime Dem Operative When is a Democratic Party operative not a Democratic Party operative? When they allegedly tape a meeting of the GOP leader in the Senate, that’s when. Shawn Reilly, who is being investigated by the FBI for his possible role in illicitly taping a meeting of Mitch McConnell’s campaign staff, was dismissed by Brad Woodhouse, the communications director at the Democratic National Committee. 14 Apr 2013 PAC Ad Links Mitch McConnell to Al Qaeda How desperate is the Democratic Party to get rid of Mitch McConnell? A Democratic PAC called Americans United For Change produced an ad titled “Bad Company” that links McConnell with Al-Qaeda, The Atlantic reports. 14 Apr 2013 Obama Calls for End to North Korean Rhetoric After meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday, President Barack Obama said, “We both agreed that now’s the time for North Korea to end the kind of belligerent approach that they’ve been taking. And to try to lower temperatures. Nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula.” 13 Apr 2013 Obama Budget Attempts to Resume UNESCO Defunding Over Recognition of 'Palestine' The Obama administration is trying to circumvent U.S. law dating back to 1990 by asking Congress to resume the funding of United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 12 Apr 2013 White House Provides Egypt with Four More F-16 Fighter Jets Despite the anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the White House continues to honor a 2010 agreement wherein America provides state of the art fighter jets to Egypt, sending the Muslim Brotherhood controlled nation four more F-16 fighter jets. 12 Apr 2013 Progress Kentucky's Reilly Denies Wrongdoing, Dems Disavow Group The Executive Director of the progressive Super PAC Progress Kentucky, Shawn Reilly, who was accused of being one of the two men who illicitly taped a private meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and aides, is denying that he took part in any such action. 12 Apr 2013 Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next
Salon.com: Americans Should Hope The Boston Bomber Is A White Domestic Terrorist David Sirota, writing for Salon.com, postulates that Americans should hope that the bomber responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings is a white domestic terrorist. Sirota avers that Americans treat white domestic terrorists in a different manner from other terrorists; they are never lumped together with other whites to form a group that should be targeted, because of what he calls “the dynamics of privilege.” 17 Apr 2013
Gadsden HS Baseball Coaches File Complaint Against Umpire Who Prohibited Player from Speaking Spanish An umpire who ordered a Latino player on an Albuquerque, New Mexico high school baseball team to stop speaking Spanish is the subject of a complaint filed by the player’s coaches. Corey Jones, who was the first-base umpire for a game between Gadsden High School and Alamogordo High School, told the Gadsen first-baseman to stop speaking Spanish, apparently because he thought there was some foul language involved. 16 Apr 2013
Number of Teachers in California Plummeting The number of educators pursuing a teaching credential in California fell 12% last year, the eighth year in a row of decline. Students who were intending to become teachers by taking teacher preparation programs numbered roughly 17,000 less in 2010-11 than in 2006-07. 15 Apr 2013
Thatcher's Legacy Continues In Her Own Family Perhaps the great Margaret Thatcher’s legacy didn’t die with her, in a literal sense. Thatcher’s granddaughter Amanda, who is 19, is studying in a college in Richmond, Virginia, and was voted “the most likely to change the world” by her fellow students. 14 Apr 2013
Alleged McConnell Bugger Shawn Reilly Longtime Dem Operative When is a Democratic Party operative not a Democratic Party operative? When they allegedly tape a meeting of the GOP leader in the Senate, that’s when. Shawn Reilly, who is being investigated by the FBI for his possible role in illicitly taping a meeting of Mitch McConnell’s campaign staff, was dismissed by Brad Woodhouse, the communications director at the Democratic National Committee. 14 Apr 2013
PAC Ad Links Mitch McConnell to Al Qaeda How desperate is the Democratic Party to get rid of Mitch McConnell? A Democratic PAC called Americans United For Change produced an ad titled “Bad Company” that links McConnell with Al-Qaeda, The Atlantic reports. 14 Apr 2013
Obama Calls for End to North Korean Rhetoric After meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday, President Barack Obama said, “We both agreed that now’s the time for North Korea to end the kind of belligerent approach that they’ve been taking. And to try to lower temperatures. Nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula.” 13 Apr 2013
Obama Budget Attempts to Resume UNESCO Defunding Over Recognition of 'Palestine' The Obama administration is trying to circumvent U.S. law dating back to 1990 by asking Congress to resume the funding of United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 12 Apr 2013
White House Provides Egypt with Four More F-16 Fighter Jets Despite the anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the White House continues to honor a 2010 agreement wherein America provides state of the art fighter jets to Egypt, sending the Muslim Brotherhood controlled nation four more F-16 fighter jets. 12 Apr 2013
Progress Kentucky's Reilly Denies Wrongdoing, Dems Disavow Group The Executive Director of the progressive Super PAC Progress Kentucky, Shawn Reilly, who was accused of being one of the two men who illicitly taped a private meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and aides, is denying that he took part in any such action. 12 Apr 2013
President Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University23 May 2013, 2:14 PM PDT
President Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University23 May 2013, 2:14 PM PDT