Late last week, reporters discovered a video of racist anti-government rantings by a St. Louis County police officer working the streets of Ferguson. Media scrutiny quickly focused on the officer's incendiary language and policing methods, but few paused to scrutinize the group to whom he was addressing his comments.
As protest leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, contend with "outside agitators" they say have disrupted their peaceful demonstrations, the hackers in Anonymous have run into a similar problem: An "uncontrollable pest" whose reckless decision last week to accuse an innocent cop of killing Michael Brown embarrassed and…
As last night's institutional violence unfolded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, an old trope came back to life: America's police have been militarized. Like most tropes, it holds a grain of truth, but it's off-base in one critical respect: The U.S. armed forces exercise more discipline and compassion than…
Via KARG Argus Radio, this is a gripping, archived feed of what happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, tonight in the wake of the police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown. In a few short minutes, police fired tear gas directly into yards and demanded that cameras be shut down and protesters disperse.
Anonymous, the hacktivist network, released a video message Sunday encouraging protests and threatening their own actions against the police who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and left him for dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
How many times has voter-identification fraud really happened in the United States? As many as 31 times out of 1 billion ballots cast since 2000, one law professor's new research shows. The incidents may account for up to 234 ballots, or 0.0000234 percent of all the voting in America.
A federal judge struck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage today, saying it is unconstitutional. The decision comes on the heels of similar moves in other states.
Remember 2004, when Karl Rove got a dingleberry re-elected president in part by mobilizing conservatives to vote down gay marriage in a bunch of states? Well, it's only taken a decade, but gay marriage is winning. And the pace is picking up.
Three "19-year-old white male freshmen from Georgia" at the University of Mississippi have been expelled from their fraternity, and the frat has been suspended from campus, after the trio reportedly hung a noose and Confederate-themed flag over the statue of a black civil rights icon.
A key committee in Alabama's House of Representatives has pushed through a bill requiring teachers and students at all of the state's public schools to spend 15 minutes every morning in Christian prayer, even though a majority of legislators present say they opposed the measure.
If your religion is apeshit racist ring-wingnut douchery with a side of tabloid pablum, WorldNetDaily is your online Jerusalem, pilgrim. Be sure to bring it a big offering, though: Google is blocking ads from popping up on the site over its obsession with "black mobs."
A Southern California man was beaten, Tasered and burned by local cops who thought he was threatening them and didn't realize he was gesturing that he was deaf, according to a discrimination lawsuit he's filed in federal court.
Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today.
One of the sad byproducts of the media conspiracy to ignore this week's pro-life conference in Washington was that we almost missed this new iPhone app for baby-savin'. If only we'd seen it on Wednesday, we could've told you how much it sucked sooner:
For centuries, we Americans have sought easier ways to kill our convicts. Lethal injection had been the gold standard for sending toughs to oblivion. But amid a sudden spate of botched shots and poison shortages, what are we to do? Let's go back to guns, gas and zap juice!
Katherine Svenson seems like a nice lady. She's old, and on the school board of Delta County, Colorado, between Grand Junction and Aspen. But she's concerned, see, about these transgender kids, whatever they are.
This Instagram shows the new faces of Uncle Sam's Lean, Mean Green Killing Machine.
A man in New Mexico is suing after a routine traffic stop ended in several gross civil-rights violations, including an anal cavity search for which he was charged by the hospital. The man was pulled over after rolling a stop sign, but ended up getting several invasive searches requested by the police on flimsy…
