LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Beverly Hills police said on Wednesday they had closed their investigation into the death of singer Whitney Houston after concluding it was not the result of a crime. Houston, 48, who had a long history of
Toure, the self-proclaimed racial expert, has a new column at Time today in which he explains that the election of Barack Obama has made white people violently mad. “Historically,” he writes, “after a surge in black power there is a
After HBO’s “The Wire,” creator David Simon had a tall order on his hands when it came to following up what many regard (including me) as the best drama ever produced for television. “Treme” is nowhere near as brilliant, but
A man who was beaten in Gainesville, Florida claims that the gang that beat him shouted “Trayvon” as they attacked him. The victim, who is white, said that a gang of five to eight black men beat him for five
National Public Radio is attempting to turn the horrific Tulsa shootings into a story of systemic racism and collective guilt–and citing opposition to President Barack Obama as evidence of racial prejudice in Oklahoma. On today’s Morning Edition, host Steve Inskeep
The Washington Post’s chief film critic, Ann Hornaday, pens another one of those columns that should be titled: Liberals Who Selectively Blame Movies For Societies Ills: In more recent years, the vigilante has been a vehicle for baby boomer nostalgia in comic-book
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington’s historic Howard Theater, a launching pad for black performers from Duke Ellington to The Supremes, reopened on Monday after a $29 million restoration saved it from the wrecking ball. Hundreds of people crowded outside the Howard
The Supreme Court narrowly sided with police, holding on April 2nd that the Fourth Amendment allows strip searches for anyone taken to jail if that person will mingle with the other inmates. Years ago, an arrest warrant was issued against
Meet the Hamas version of Oprah. Her name is Ahlam Tamimi, and she is the terrorist responsible for the 2001 suicide bomber attack at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem that killed 15 people and injured another 132. Among the American
O’Reilly: “Violent crime in Chicago. So far this year 109 people have been murdered in that city. That’s up 56 percent over last year. Much of the violence is gang- generated minority-involved. “
Fox’s Jesse Watters recently visited the hometown of Barack Obama for a Bill O’Reilly segment, where Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is now Mayor of what one person interviewed calls America’s deadliest city. Murder is so out of
Gunter Grass, the German Nobel laureate, was quoted on Wednesday in the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung stating that Iran is not the nuclear threat we should be worried about. The real nuclear threat, he wrote, is Israel: “Israel’s atomic power endangers
Simon Pegg has given this first look on Twitter at the trailer for “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” in which he co-stars with Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Sheridan Smith and Alan Drake. In the psycho comedy, Pegg plays a children’s
The diversion of police resources to keep the peace at the 2011 Capitol Chaos impacted communities across the state, but perhaps nowhere was that impact felt as significantly as the City of Madison. The Capitol protests in Madison during February
The March 26 broadcast of ABC’s “Castle” might have caught conservative viewers by surprise – at first. Spoilers Ahead … The episode featured a bombing at an Occupy Wall Street-like gathering, and when our heroes finished their crime-solving shtick, we
Shorter CNN to George Zimmerman: Gee, George, sorry we pretty much declared you a racist in front of all of America before having all the facts, but Obama’s all-in on this one and we’re all-in for Obama and since you’re a registered
In Great Britain’s Parliament next month, the Queen’s speech will introduce legislation that would encroach on internet privacy in a dramatic way. It will be mandatory for Internet companies to install hardware that would enable the government to use GCHQ,
The Sanford Police Department has released a partial police report today on the Trayvon Martin shooting. The police report largely corroborates George Zimmerman’s story. It states that the case against Zimmerman was initially described as a negligent homicide, “unnecessary killing
Remember, everyone’s a victim, even one of the wealthiest and most successful Americans in history. Here’s Tyler Perry’s story: Racial profiling “should be a hate crime investigated by the FBI,” filmmaker Tyler Perry wrote in a Facebook posting Sunday in
House Democrats are moving to pass gun control and race-based legislation in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, The Hill reports today. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus want to end “Stand Your Ground” laws – laws designed to
Today on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Vice President Joe Biden announced that the shooting of Trayvon Martin should spark a national debate about gun control: It’s important that people be put in a position where their Second Amendment rights are
On Thursday, March 29, on Ed Schultz’s left-wing radio show, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) referred to the killing of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 as a “modern-day lynching.” The host, apparently, did not correct her. Schakowsky evidently doesn’t know much about
On Friday, Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee, 59, pleaded guilty to fraud charges involving the embezzlement of $20 million in Democratic campaign contributions in a case one prosecutor likened to that of Bernie Madoff. “It’s the largest embezzlement scheme of
