Courtroom proceedings heated up in Georgia during the sentencing hearing for ten former Atlanta public school educators who were convicted earlier this month on an assortment of racketeering charges in one of the nation’s largest test-cheating scandals. When one defense attorney got loud, Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter fired back saying “there were thousands of […]
You have all heard about Tom Cotton, the junior senator from Arkansas, by now. Yes, he is a pompous ass for penning that letter to the Iranian leadership. And speaking of his letter, did you know that he met with a group of defense contractors the next day after penning that mutinous letter? But here’s […]
Controversy continues to rage around Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) about the letter he penned to Iran in an attempt to undermine ongoing nuclear negotiations. In a move that should surprise no one by this time, Cotton led a group of 47 Republican senators who signed an open letter to the leaders of Iran warning that […]
President Barack Obama sat down with VICE founder Shane Smith to discuss a host of issues important to Americans from foreign policy and marijuana legalization to global warming and political gridlock. The interview, conducted last Tuesday, was posted to VICE News on Monday, March 16. In a segment covering negotiations with Iran, Obama expressed his embarrassment […]
A recent report by Capital New York claims that for the past ten years, thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages related to police brutality have been occurring and can be traced directly to the New York Police Department. The report says in part, “Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network […]