According to Henry Rollins, education is the great leveler of the playing field, which is why the punk rocker says that elites are fearful of it. What would happen if our educational system did succeed in leveling the playing field? According to Rollins, for one thing, the prison population will plummet. The temptation to rob […]
A secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city’s young people of color in the NYPD’s crosshairs. As reported by The Nation, In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and […]
Dick Armey, the “father figure of the tea party movement” resigned his post as chairmen of Freedom Works—the Koch brothers-backed group that blazed the trail to kill the Affordable Care Act and elect no-budge tea partiers. Who will they recruit next, and what lies ahead for the GOP’s far right flank? Andy Kroll, political reporter […]
Still reeling from the presidential election results, Mr. Burns takes a few minutes to explain the upcoming fiscal cliff. Finally acknowledging that “rape is bad” and after learning that in spite of Karl Rove’s theatrics, Mitt Romney did in fact lose the presidential election, Mr. Burns of The Simpsons decided it was time to explain […]
Fox News pretends that President Obama’s approval rating is falling, when it’s actually rising. Fox Nation has put up a post entitled Poll: Obama Job Approval Drops to 49%. However, the problem is that Obama’s approval ratings are rising and not falling. The Fox post is actually just a link to Gallup’s latest tracking poll results of Pres. Obama’s […]