Anti-Immigration Reform Crusader Steve King Feels The Tea Party Love
The Iowa Republican and immigration hardliner holds a six hour “press conference” to protest the Senate’s immigration bill. “I didn’t know when we started out this morning if I might be standing here alone till five o’clock tonight,” he said. Rep. Steve King. Via: Pete Marovich / Getty Images WASHINGTON— More...
Republican Congressman: Does Dianne Feinstein Want Guantanamo Detainees To Die?
Rep. Pompeo asks what the alternative to force-feeding hunger strikers is. Rep. Mike Pompeo Via: Win McNamee / Getty Images WASHINGTON — Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s More...
20 Powerful Black-And-White Photographs Of Regular Americans From History
The untold faces of our country. This young migratory worker mother who traveled 35 miles to pick peas for $ 2.25 a day. She lived in a camp with her two children and husband. (1840) Via: usnationalarchives This More...
Head Of Group That Had Aims To “Change” Gays Issues Apology
“Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality, issued an apology to the gay community for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization More...
AP CEO Says Government Sources Won’t Talk After Justice Department Probe
“The government may love this,” says the AP CEO. “I suspect that they do.” Via: CBS, Chris Usher / AP WASHINGTON — The CEO of the Associated Press told an audience Wednesday that the More...
Obama Thanks Europe For Leading On Climate Change
At the Brandenburg Gate, Obama calls for changes in America’s nuclear posture and calls for action on climate change. Via: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters WASHINGTON — President Obama told a crowd in Germany More...
Sierra Club Stands By Odd Kazakhstan Blog Post
Successful Kazakh PR work? Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Via: Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters WASHINGTON — The Sierra Club didn’t publish a strangely pro-Kazakh regime blog post at the behest of More...
14 Things We Learned From The Q&A With Edward Snowden
The source of the Guardian’s NSA leaks emerged Monday to take a few questions from journalists and readers. He loves his country, hates Dick Cheney, and has seen those pictures of his girlfriend. Via: The More...
Officials: NSA Spying Foiled 50 Terror Plots
They include plots on the New York Stock Exchange and the New York City subway system. Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole, NSA Deputy Director John Inglis, NSA Director U.S. Army General Keith Alexander, FBI More...
Missing Michael Hastings
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write. Via: Blue Rider Press Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories More...