Print William Bigelow Read Full Bio Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Williams-Sonoma, the huge retail chain selling home furnishings and gourmet cookware, has removed pressure cookers from their shelves because of the Boston Marathon bombing. 24 Apr 2013 Chicago Woman Ducks Conviction in over 300 Arrests A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times has become an expert at manipulating the court system—faking seizures so she can stay at hospitals, getting her cases delayed so she can return to the streets and threaten people—all because prisons are overcrowded and mental hospitals are short on funding. 23 Apr 2013 Internet Sales Tax Advances in Senate After White House Support A bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act has been advanced in the Senate by a vote of 74-20 after being strongly endorsed by Barack Obama. The bill would let states tax online purchases so internet businesses would be forced to make consumers pay state taxes on their purchases. 23 Apr 2013 Boston Bombers Spare Carjacking Victim Because He 'Wasn't American' Pete Williams of NBC News revealed that the network has been emailing a man who claims the Boston Marathon Bombers carjacked his SUV but spared his life because he “wasn’t American.” 22 Apr 2013 FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism The FBI has confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, was identified by a foreign government as a "follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" who changed radically in 2010. 22 Apr 2013 Dresden Dolls Singer Writes Poem Empathizing with Boston Bombing Suspect There is a woman named Amanda Palmer. She is a singer with a group called the Dresden Dolls. She raised $1.2 million through her fans using Kickstarter to support her album and tour, then had the gall to ask musicians to work for her on the tour for free. And now she has written a poem with her deep insights into the younger brother suspected of perpetrating the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, titled, appropriately enough "A Poem for Dzhokhar." 22 Apr 2013 Immigration Reform Bill Doesn't Keep Border Security Promises The ostensible plan to guarantee border security that was part of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal isn’t turning out to be what its sponsors promised. 22 Apr 2013 Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery This week, Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg, speaking at a fundraiser, no less, admitted that she knew what was going on at Gosnell’s butcher shop. She and her organization did not report it to state health officials or anyone else who could have stepped in. 21 Apr 2013 Politico Says Bombers' Motives 'Far From Obvious' For Politico, the motivation for the bombers who murdered innocent civilians at the Boston Marathon simply isn’t very clear. 19 Apr 2013 Britain, France: Assad Using Chemical Weapons Against Syrian Rebels A split between Britain and France on the one side and the United States on the other regarding sending military aid to opposition forces in Syria may be widening due to a report Britain and France gave to the United Nations claiming Syria’s government has used chemical weapons in its fight against rebel forces. 19 Apr 2013 Previous 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Williams-Sonoma, the huge retail chain selling home furnishings and gourmet cookware, has removed pressure cookers from their shelves because of the Boston Marathon bombing. 24 Apr 2013
Chicago Woman Ducks Conviction in over 300 Arrests A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times has become an expert at manipulating the court system—faking seizures so she can stay at hospitals, getting her cases delayed so she can return to the streets and threaten people—all because prisons are overcrowded and mental hospitals are short on funding. 23 Apr 2013
Internet Sales Tax Advances in Senate After White House Support A bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act has been advanced in the Senate by a vote of 74-20 after being strongly endorsed by Barack Obama. The bill would let states tax online purchases so internet businesses would be forced to make consumers pay state taxes on their purchases. 23 Apr 2013
Boston Bombers Spare Carjacking Victim Because He 'Wasn't American' Pete Williams of NBC News revealed that the network has been emailing a man who claims the Boston Marathon Bombers carjacked his SUV but spared his life because he “wasn’t American.” 22 Apr 2013
FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism The FBI has confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, was identified by a foreign government as a "follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" who changed radically in 2010. 22 Apr 2013
Dresden Dolls Singer Writes Poem Empathizing with Boston Bombing Suspect There is a woman named Amanda Palmer. She is a singer with a group called the Dresden Dolls. She raised $1.2 million through her fans using Kickstarter to support her album and tour, then had the gall to ask musicians to work for her on the tour for free. And now she has written a poem with her deep insights into the younger brother suspected of perpetrating the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, titled, appropriately enough "A Poem for Dzhokhar." 22 Apr 2013
Immigration Reform Bill Doesn't Keep Border Security Promises The ostensible plan to guarantee border security that was part of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal isn’t turning out to be what its sponsors promised. 22 Apr 2013
Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery This week, Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg, speaking at a fundraiser, no less, admitted that she knew what was going on at Gosnell’s butcher shop. She and her organization did not report it to state health officials or anyone else who could have stepped in. 21 Apr 2013
Politico Says Bombers' Motives 'Far From Obvious' For Politico, the motivation for the bombers who murdered innocent civilians at the Boston Marathon simply isn’t very clear. 19 Apr 2013
Britain, France: Assad Using Chemical Weapons Against Syrian Rebels A split between Britain and France on the one side and the United States on the other regarding sending military aid to opposition forces in Syria may be widening due to a report Britain and France gave to the United Nations claiming Syria’s government has used chemical weapons in its fight against rebel forces. 19 Apr 2013
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