Left-wing professor Cornel West blasted President Barack Obama for not exploiting Michael Brown’s death and accused him of being a “counterfeit” progressive who is nothing more than a “brown-faced” Bill Clinton. In a weekend interview with Thomas Frank of Salon, West
CNN anchor Don Lemon referred to the events in Ferguson after the shooting of Mike Brown were a “media spectacle” during his live coverage from Brown’s funeral on Monday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “It’s important … that this turns into something other
On August 23, 2014, a paid ad/open letter appeared in the New York Times taking Elie Wiesel to task for playing the “Holocaust trump” card and for trying to “justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the
(AP) They don’t call her Queen Bey for nothing. Beyonce not only stole the show at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night with many of the world’s top female pop stars in attendance hustling for our attention, she
The community in Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in violence and riots after police officer Darren Wilson shot teenager Michael Brown. Now after weeks of his being the focus of anger, many are starting to rally to officer Wilson’s defense, some even
The issue of militarized police forces became a focus of national debate after the response of authorities to riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and on Saturday it was announced that President Obama is launching a review of the federal program that
Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation” Congressman Lacy Clay (D-MO) sad “there is going to be a problem in the streets” of Ferguson if “justice” is not served in the case of Officer Darren Wilson fatally shooting Michael Brown. Clay
After scoring a touchdown in Friday’s preseason game, Raiders running back Maurice Jones Drew appeared to make the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture that the Ferguson protesters have popularized after Michael Brown’s death. The Redskins’ secondary also made the gesture
In her New York Times column, far-left author Maureen Dowd catches up to a fact shouted by conservative media for years–that President Barack Obama cares more for his own leisure and entertainment than governing the nation or facing difficult issues.
Because the grand jury looking into the shooting of Ferguson teen Michael Brown is 75 percent white, many on the left are already claiming that the investigation into Officer Darren Wilson’s conduct in the fatal incident will not achieve “justice”
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Tensions briefly flared then subsided late Saturday night and early Sunday in Ferguson as nightly protests continued two weeks after a white city police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old. Police reported only a handful
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Hillary Rodham Clinton “a war hawk,” Sen. Rand Paul says that if the former secretary of state seeks the presidency, some voters will worry that she will get the U.S. involved in another Mideast war. Paul
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending three White House aides to the funeral of Michael Brown, the young black man whose fatal shooting by a white police officer sparked days of racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Leading
After two weeks away from the White House, President Barack Obama’s vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, ends late Sunday. A look, by the numbers, at how Obama spent the time while juggling his responsibilities as president, including monitoring the situations
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) slammed “race hustlers” like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for trying to “monetize” the civil unrest in Ferguson and raise their profiles. “They’re race hustlers,” King said this week on Iowa’s WHO radio. “Tawana Brawley, the one
On Saturday, President Barack Obama reportedly ordered a federal review of the increasing militarization of local police forces after Ferguson, Missouri erupted in rioting and looting after Michael Brown’s death. According to Reuters, Obama called for a review of “federal programs
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared complaints about “outside agitators” stirring up violence in Ferguson to the rhetoric of Eugene “Bull” Connor on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Some of the reports of outside agitators instigating violence in Ferguson have been made by
How many nine-year-old Antonio’s need to die in Chicago before the national media will park its satellite trucks in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Hall and demand answers and action. How many black people, including black children, need to
Officials have reported that two St. Louis area police officers have been suspended by their respective forces for unprofessional conduct committed off the job. One, Officer Dan Page of the St. Louis County Police Department, is the same officer seen
Climate change is a serious problem because… Ferguson. So says environmental activist Deirdre Smith of left-wing pressure group 350.org. In an editorial written for Common Dreams (“Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community”), she claims that it “isn’t hard” to
More Videos From Western Journalism Video posted by Western Journalism shows protesters in Ferguson confronting Jesse Jackson and accusing him of not caring about the causes and protesters he claims to support. The protesters say, “we ain’t seen you marching
The New York Times reported on a new poll Thursday that shows a division between white and black America over the protests in racial turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri. What the Times didn’t report on was the specifics of just how
Attorney General Eric Holder travelled to Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday to personally intervene in the investigation of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unprecedented and highly questionable move. In a column published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Holder claimed that
A group of anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian protesters morphed into supporters of slain Missouri teen Michael Brown in New York’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park Wednesday evening as #HandsUp, #TurnUp protests spread outside the St. Louis, Missouri, area. A group of protesters went from
Despite surveillance video that allegedly shows Michael Brown robbing a convenience store and violently shoving a store clerk into a rack, his parents state that there is nothing to suggest that Brown had an “aggressive temperament.” His mother, Lesley McSpadden, and
