By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2016 The votes have been cast, the people have spoken – Bernie Sanders has won the primary in the state of Wisconsin. The percentage tally, which will change as all outstanding votes come in (some predict a wider margin), stands at: Bernie Sanders: 53.2% Hillary Clinton: 46.6% Who says Bernie[…]
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2016 CNN has released the initial exit polls in the Wisconsin primary. Bernie Sanders: 55% Hillary Clinton: 44% This news is being received with applause and cheers by Bernie supporters as they now anticipate a win by the end of the night when all votes are counted. These numbers are[…]
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2016 Poor, poor Sarah Palin. She’s out there working hard for Trump, trying to get him elected our next Commander-in-Ignorance, and she goes and Tweets her (and his) true feelings. Granted, as soon as she was alerted to the finger-slip, the Tweet was deleted to replaced “condoned” with “condemned”, but[…]
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2016 CNN Politics printed a story on their web site today, updated only ten minutes ago as of this writing, titled “Sanders feeling media heat after new interview”, based on an interview Sen. Sanders conducted with The New York Daily on April 1, four days ago, which the Daily published[…]
By Shannon Argueta / 04.05.2016 Tennessee…the state that was so concerned about the First Amendment that they enacted a religious “freedom” act has just proven that the only religion they really care about is Christianity AND they don’t care about the Constitution at all. The Tennessean reports: Tennessee is poised to make history as the[…]
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Bulgaria’s 2015 exhibition on Ancient Thrace in the Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines in French and international media. Photo: Louvre Museum Facebook Page By Ivan Dikov / 04.02.2016 Archaeology in Bulgaria The next big exhibition to be organized jointly by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture and the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, could be on[…]
Ascidiacea, plate 85 from Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904) / Creative Commons In addition to describing and naming thousands of new species the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel was behind some of history’s most impressive meetings of science and art. Dr Mario A. Di Gregorio explores Haeckel’s unique idea of “monism” which lies behind[…]
Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Fort Worth on February 26, 2015. By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, The Washington Post / 04.05.2016 Donald Trump says he will force Mexico to pay for a border wall as president by threatening to cut off the flow of billions of dollars in payments that immigrants send[…]
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fields questions from reporters in Dover, New Hampshire. Brian Snyder/Reuters By Dr. Justin Buchler / 04.05.2016 Associate Professor of Political Science Case Western Reserve University Last week, President Obama criticized journalists covering the election for “the practice of drawing ‘false equivalences’ between competing claims made by politicians.” “If I say[…]
Protesters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, following the recent passage of HB2. (Chris Seward / The News and Observer via AP) By Nina Martin / 04.05.2016 It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination. This story was co-published with Mother Jones. When[…]
By Joe Clark / 04.04.2016 Ten NYPD officers sat down on camera with NBC New York to discuss racism and the illegal quota based system they say their department still uses to judge a cop’s performance. In 2010, the State of New York banned law enforcement agencies from using quota based job performance evaluations. NYPD[…]
By Mike Sainato / 04.04.2016 The Panama Papers leak recently revealed how and to what extent some wealthy international elites use Panama as a haven to avoid paying taxes in their respective countries. The leak has embarrassed public officials all over the world, led for calls in Iceland for their prime minister to resign, and[…]