Breaking News: Martin Shkreli has been arrested in a securities fraud case. Dubbing him “the most hated man in America,” BBC reports that Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, “has been called a ‘morally bankrupt sociopath,’ a ‘scumbag,’ a ‘garbage monster,’ and ‘everything that is wrong with capitalism,’” adding that “those are […]
The Justice Department has been asked by campaign watchdog groups to launch an investigation into pro-Rubio TV ads in the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Serious questions are being raised about the legality of television ads that are being aired in the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire by Conservative […]
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 […]
“Whites Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested:” Data Analysis Casts the War on Drugs in a Whole New Light1 “Institutional Racism” is defined as “racism perpetrated by government entities such as schools, the courts or the military. Unlike the racism perpetrated by individuals, institutional racism has the power to negatively affect the bulk of people […]
On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton for actions related to his extra-marital affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid White House intern. The trial of President Clinton commenced on January 7, 1999, and five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted to acquit […]