Conservative website run by Tea Party favorite Allen West applauds cops for statistics showing that 30% of fatal cop shootings aren’t justified. Conservative website AllenBWest.com has a curious article entitled: “Statistics for police violence show 70% of shootings are justified.” Maybe it’s just the contrarian in me, but when I first glimpsed the headline I […]
We all remember the tragic Trayvon Martin shooting and other tragic examples of America’s “Stand Your Ground” laws in action. There are at least two sides to every story, and the unfortunate reality of “Stand Your Ground” cases is that the shooter, all too often, is never prosecuted as the other individual is deceased and […]
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has been taken into custody and jailed after being summoned to federal court on contempt charges stemming from her refusal to issue any marriage licenses in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling making marriage equality the law of the land. The controversy came to a head on Monday […]
The hypocrites at the Young Conservatives website are at it again – politicizing the tragic on-air shooting death of a reporter and her cameraman Wednesday morning in Virginia. WDBJ7 reporter Allison Parker, 24 years of age, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, were shot and killed Wednesday morning during a live interview and a third victim, […]
The suspected gunman in an attack on the Dallas Police Department headquarters early Saturday morning has been shot by a police sniper and is presumed to be dead. The attack on the headquarters started about about 12:30 a.m. CT (1:30 a.m. ET) when automatic weapons were fired at the station. Police initially believed there were […]