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Kentucky Sheriff’s Deputy Brings Gun to Church Wedding and Accidentally Shoots His Mother
By Elaine Magliaro Detective Cory Golightly, a sheriff’s deputy from western Kentucky, has been placed on paid administrative leave after accidentally shooting his mother with a personal weapon during a wedding ceremony at the Bardwell Baptist Church in Carlisle County. … Continue reading
Posted in Law Enforcement, Short Video, United States
Tagged Cory Golightly, Guns in Church, Kentucky
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John Oliver on the Negative Effects of Too Much Standardized Testing on Our Children and Our Public Schools (VIDEO)
By Elaine Magliaro School reformers have claimed for years that our public schools and our public school teachers are failing our children. In Washington, policies put in place to help reform our schools have brought us the disastrous No Child … Continue reading
Posted in Dept. of Education, Education, Government, Humor, Short Video, United States
Tagged Educational Publishers, High-Stakes Testing, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, No Child Left Behind, Pearson, Public Education, Public Schools, Race to the Top, School Reform, School Reformers, Standardized Tests
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Picture of the Day for May 2, 2015 and The Blondes of Fox News with a Special Focus on Megyn Kelly and Freddie Gray (VIDEO)
Posted by Elaine Magliaro While we’re on the subject of pretty blondes employed by Faux News, yesterday Megan Kelly interviewed an unidentified police officer who gave her “the dirt” on Freddie Gray: Megan Kelly lets anonymous cop call Freddie Gray a snitch … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Criminal Law, Equal Rights, Jurisprudence, Justice, Law Enforcement, Local Government, Media, Murder, Police, Propaganda, Short Video, United States
Tagged Baltimore Police, Fox News, Freddie Gray, Megyn Kelly
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Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Larry Wilmore of The Nightly Show Weigh in on the News Media and the Situation in Baltimore
Posted by Elaine Magliaro The Daily Show – Baltimore on Fire The Nightly Show – What a Riot – Questionable Coverage from CNN and Fox News
Posted in Humor, Law Enforcement, Media, Police, Racism, Short Video, Society, Television, United States
Tagged Jon Stewart, Larry Wilmore, News Media, The Daily Show, The Nightly Show
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Man-made Earthquakes and “Three-Eyed Billy Embraces the Apocalypse” (Mark Fiore Video)
By Elaine Magliaro Mark Fiore said that the new frontier in scientific denial is “earthquake denial.” He noted that the burning of fossil fuels has helped to change the atmosphere—and now processes being used to extract oil and gas from … Continue reading
Posted in Big Oil, Economics, Energy Policy, Geology, Science, Short Video, United States
Tagged Air Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Man-made Earthquakes, Mark Fiore, Oklahoma, Political Cartoon, Pollution, United States Geologial Service, USGS, Wastewater Injection
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Campaign 2016: Let the Running Begin…with a Handy Dandy “Candidate Kit” (Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video)
By Elaine Magliaro That time has arrived when prospective presidential candidates are “on the road” once again in densely populated states like Iowa and New Hampshire speaking to and eating with the regular folks—you know, the common working people these … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Campaign Finance, Humor, Media, Political Science, Politics, Short Video, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Campaign 2016, Marco Rubio, Mark Fiore, Political Cartoon, POTUS, Rand Paul, Republicans, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz
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Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore Looks at Religious Freedom and Gay Commerce (VIDEO)
Posted by Elaine Magliaro Mark Fiore: What do you do when you sign a law that is perfectly fine and simply safeguards Religious Liberty for All in the great tradition of apple pie and God? Why, you urge your state … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Rock and Roll, Short Video, Society, States, United States
Tagged Indiana, Mark Fiore, Mike Pence, Political Cartoon, Republicans
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“Woodchucks” and Three More Poems by Maxine Kumin for National Poetry Month (VIDEO)
By Elaine Magliaro Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) served as the United States poet laureate from 1981 to 1982. From 1989 to 1994, she was the poet laureate of New Hampshire. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Kumin was also a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Poetry, Short Video
Tagged Maxine Kumin
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Kevin Bollaert, Creator of a “Revenge Porn” Website, Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison
By Elaine Magliaro Last Friday, Kamala D. Harris, California’s Attorney General, announced that Kevin Christopher Bollaert, “the operator of a cyber-exploitation website which posted nude photos of individuals with personal identifying information without their consent, was sentenced to 18 years in … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Crime, Internet, Law Enforcement, Media, Short Video, United States, Weird Crime
Tagged California, Extortion, Identity Theft, Kevin Bollaert, Revenge Porn Website
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