Skip to content
Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

Latest News

Hagel Nomination Blocked

Senate Republicans delayed a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary on Thursday by mounting a filibuster causing the cloture to fall one vote shy of being successful. The cloture vote needed 60 votes to move on to Hagel’s

Benghazi: Graham Threatens Hold on Hagel, Brennan

Benghazi: Graham Threatens Hold on Hagel, Brennan

Senator Lindsey Graham (R – SC) is not giving up on his efforts to have the White House answer questions about what President Barack Obama was doing on the night the U.S. Mission in Benghazi was attacked. Four Americans were

Dorner's Ex-Girlfriend Called Him 'Paranoid' And 'Twisted'

Ariana Williams Christopher Dorner, the former Navy reservist who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008, is on the run from law enforcement authorities for allegedly shooting and killing three people and injuring two others. A $1 million

What Happened to That 'M' in MTV?

In response to The Decline and Fall of MTV: One of the first questions young MTV staffers ask seasoned producers, when they are first hired, is why MTV stopped being a 24 hour music channel. After all, a ton of

The Making of another Martyr or Mumia

In response to The Black Community’s Dichotomy on Gun Violence: What’s particularly concerning is guys like Ab-Soul start to gin up this following for Dorner, so if Dorner is killed by police in a shootout situation, every black activist will

Lawmakers Differ on Middle East Weapons Trafficking

Lawmakers Differ on Middle East Weapons Trafficking

During questioning at Thursday’s Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, members learned from outgoing defense secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US military’s joint chiefs of staff, that the Obama administration supported a plan to arm

Emails Expose Southern Poverty Law Center Collaboration with DOJ

Emails Expose Southern Poverty Law Center Collaboration with DOJ

Judicial Watch (JW), a Washington D.C. based non-partisan educational foundation, released some two dozen pages of emails it obtained on Tuesday revealing connections between the Department of Justice Civil Rights and Tax divisions and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  According

Menendez Controversy Casts Shadow over DC Event

Menendez Controversy Casts Shadow over DC Event

The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce hosted their 76th annual gathering at Washington, DC’s Wardman Marriott on Thursday night. Known as the “Walk To Washington,” the evening focused around the state’s disaster recovery efforts post-Super Storm Sandy. Media listened intently

Dominican Republic Rife with Underage Sex Trafficking

Dominican Republic Rife with Underage Sex Trafficking

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has denied he engaged in any sexual activity with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, despite reports of e-mails showing that an FBI inquiry examined the possibility that Menendez may have allegedly had sex with two underage

Nightly Police Tweets Show DC Is Target Rich For Criminals

The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department’s Twitter feed has become known as a relatively scary place on the web to watch on a nightlly basis. During day-light hours, MPD tweets about car accidents or disabled automobiles often.  However, as nighttime

House Foreign Affairs Committee Calls Benghazi Report 'Incomplete'

House Foreign Affairs Committee Calls Benghazi Report 'Incomplete'

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is not satisfied with the State Department’s report on the deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya last Septemeber, calling the Dept. of State’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) report “incomplete.” According to a

DC Power Plant Continues To Burn Coal, Environmentalists Fume

DC Power Plant Continues To Burn Coal, Environmentalists Fume

Washington, DC local residents and environmentalists gathered at a meeting room in a Methodist Church on Capitol Hill last Thursday to discuss their dissatisfaction with the Capitol Hill cogeneration plant. The plant, which was completely coal fired for almost one hundred

Boeing Presents Ways to Send Man to Mars

Boeing Presents Ways to Send Man to Mars

Boeing is outlining new ways for manned missions to Mars to happen, reports nasaspaceflight.com: With a focus on building the archetypal missions for NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket, the U.S.-based Boeing Corporation has outlined their view of what technologies

John McCain: Bring Benghazi Survivors to Capitol Hill

John McCain: Bring Benghazi Survivors to Capitol Hill

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) wants to hear directly from the survivors of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack after receiving what he felt were insufficient answers in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday