Saudi Arabia is host to 70,000 stateless people called “bidoons” who were born in the country, but cannot register marriages or open a bank account. Bidoons came from nomadic tribes that had traveled around the Middle East, and then were
In the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who is accused of leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen, a federal appeals court has ruled that Risen will have to testify. The court stated: The
The American Civil Liberties Union, stung by the backlash to its initial reaction to the George Zimmerman acquittal, has reversed its position on whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) should continue its post-acquittal pursuit of Zimmerman. The day after the
The Reverend Al Sharpton, 58, married to Kathy Lee Jordan since 1980, but separated from her since 2004, has been accompanied by a 35-year-old “personal stylist” while attending high-profile events such as President Obama’s December holiday party and the black-tie
Vivek Bapat, Vice President, Portfolio Marketing, SAP, writes in Forbes that the huge information disparity gap between the haves and have-nots across the world is likely to create a “new digital caste system.” Bapat suggests that a new “creative economy”
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest drug maker, has joined the ranks of drug makers who have been found acting illegally in China to spur their growth. Chinese police say that Glaxo used bribes and sexual favors amounting to $489 million to increase its
Now that Barack Obama has admitted Detroit is going bankrupt, let us take a trip down memory lane to remember the fairy tale Obama and his defenders in the media promulgated that he saved Detroit. The Daily Beast, August 14, 2010, “Obama
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, who is challenging incumbent Mike Enzi for his Wyoming Senate seat, had her first meeting with reporters on Wednesday. Cheney is trying to distinguish her agenda from Enzi’s by portraying him as a
GOP and Democrat Senators have joined to make student loan interest rates lower until the end of the 2015 academic year, with a subsequent rise in the interest rates. The vote to confirm the deal will be either July 18
A new computer software program is reputedly able to predict where you will be five years from now. Far Out, developed by Adam Sadilek and John Krumm, uses “a nonparametric method that extracts significant and robust patterns in location data,
Anthony Weiner, speaking at Staten Island’s First Central Baptist Church Sunday to a largely black congregation the day after the George Zimmerman acquittal, criticized the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program and compared their actions to the Nazis in the late 1930’s. Last year,
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaking at the NAACP convention in Orlando, Florida, entreated the NAACP to help the Obama Administration sell ObamaCare by comparing the fight for health care to the fight for civil rights. Sebelius wants
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaking at the NAACP convention in Orlando Wednesday, compared the opponents of the Affordable Care Act to the segregationist opponents of civil rights. “The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing
California Governor Jerry Brown (D) is leaving the state to Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for two weeks. He will fly with his wife to visit Ireland and Germany, the homelands of two of his great-grandfathers. Brown said he intends
Marty Hahne, 54, known as Marty the Magician in the southern Missouri area where he performs magic, pulls a rabbit out of his “elusive bunny box,” or a hat, or a picnic basket, or even a tiny library, as the
Radio host Tom Joyner has offered Rachel Jeantel a possible full-scholarship to any historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) through his foundation. Interviewing Jeantel on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” he said to her, “Hi, Rachel, this is Tom Joyner, I
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted to the acquittal of George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin in self-defense while speaking Tuesday evening to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the largest African-American women’s organization in the country. “My prayers are with the
President Barack Obama is temporarily in jeopardy of losing the support of his most trusted friends: the unions. James Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters Union, joined with Joseph Hansen, the International President of the UFCW, and D. Taylor, the
On Monday, one of the six jurors in the George Zimmerman trial spoke to Anderson Cooper on CNN with her identity concealed, and told Cooper that Zimmerman had justification for shooting Trayvon Martin because he thought his life was in
Disgraced former NY officials Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner are on top of their respective polls, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday. The poll showed Spitzer’s run for city comptroller with plenty of heat; he leads Manhattan
If you are student in the Hempstead Public Schools, you may need some help in learning literacy. The Long Island, N.Y. district released a summer reading list that is replete with more than 30 errors. Some of the more egregious
Anthea Butler, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, writes in Religious Dispatches magazine that she has decided that the acquittal of George Zimmerman means that America’s
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) stated that the result of the George Zimmerman trial would “justify the stalking and killing of innocent black boys and deny them any avenue of self-defense.” Lewis said in a statement: I am deeply disappointed by
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who some say sabotaged Mitt Romney’s election chances by chumming it up with President Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy, is going to appear as himself on the new Michael J. Fox Show later this year.
All over New York City, residents showed their fury over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case Sunday night. The protests ranged from Harlem in north Manhattan southward to Times Square and extended into Brooklyn. Thousands of protesters
