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 […]
On Wednesday, Fox News The Five were discussing Snoop Dogg’s recent claims to have smoked marijuana in the White House when faux liberal Bob Beckel claimed that he too has smoked pot there. “I can’t criticize this guy because I’ve done dope in the White House myself,” Beckel revealed to his co-hosts. “Are you breaking […]
At a Wednesday fundraiser, President Obama praised ABC’s Scandal, but added he doesn’t want to be “living it out.” Obama used the popular political thriller to speak about Washington at the home of Scandal creator Shonda Rimes, the host of the fundraising event. As reported by UPI, Obama told the crowd, “No offense, Scandal is […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Warren says she is not running for president in 2016 but as The Nation reported earlier this week, “when the senator from Massachusetts took the stage at this year’s Netroots Nation conference… Warren came to Detroit with the platform on which Democrats should be running in 2016. And in 2014.” What Elizabeth Warren brought […]