On Thursday, President Obama gave a speech during the White House tribute to the Special Olympics and received a hug from a remarkable man. While highlighting Special Olympians who compete and are active in their communities, Obama mentioned the name of Tim Harris. The president talked about some of Harris’ noteworthy achievements. Obama told the […]
Love the snappy beat of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines but hate the rapey lyrics? Weird Al Yancovic has an awesome solution in his parody, Word Crimes. You can sing along, learn some proper grammar and no one is offended! Well, except for the famous Tea Party dude who wanted to insult liberals by calling them […]
Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who complained of not being able to breath while in a police chokehold, died as the result of compression of the neck according to the medical examiner. The New York City Medical Examiner issued their finding on Friday. The Washington Post reports: He died because of “compression of chest […]
John Oliver brilliantly attacked America’s broken prison system and the racist war on drugs in a 17-minute segment earlier this week. Oliver begins by noting that America has the world’s highest incarceration rate with nearly 1-in-every-100 adults either in jail or prison. Oliver puts this in context explaining that “Two million people are in jail […]
Questions arise concerning future methods of carrying out the death penalty after an Arizona execution took nearly two hours, on Wednesday. The execution of double-murderer Joseph Wood was conducted using a two-drug cocktail that the state had never tried before. As NBC reports, everything began normal with doctors administering an IV into one of Wood’s […]