Last week Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend at their home and drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility and shot himself in front of the team’s coach and general manager. During halftime of last night’s Sunday Night Football broadcast, NBC’s Bob Costas talked about the role guns and lax gun laws, played in the tragedy. […]
WSVN-TV – A Florida firefighter was fired last week for bringing Obama toilet paper to work. A 20-year veteran of the Pompano Beach Fire Rescue Department, Clint Pierce, was terminated for insubordination after having several documented incidents of pushing politics in the workplace. According to the Sun Sentinel, Pierce’s history includes being ordered to “refrain from […]
John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zepplin, were three of the seven recipients of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. They were all honored at a dinner for Kennedy honorees hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the U.S. Department of State on December 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. […]
After over two years in captivity, Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has testified for the first time since he was arrested in May 2010. Private Manning could face life in prison if convicted of the most serious of 22 counts […]
Tony Dokoupil, senior writer at Newsweek and the Daily Beast; and Kevin Sabet, former senior advisor for the Obama Office of National Drug Control Policy; join Up w/ Chris Hayes to talk about how Washington state is dealing with the result of an Election Day ballot measure which was passed, legalizing the recreational use of […]