NFL player and Minnesota native Matt Birk has become the latest member of the Baltimore Ravens to weigh in on the issue of marriage equality. “It’s unfair to childen if we don’t make every effort to stand up for their rights, to be known and loved by their mother and…
The AFSCME on Monday launched an online ad campaign against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, using public service workers in his own town to attack him. In three separate videos, public employees who work in La Jolla, California criticize Romney for benefiting from government services while threatening to cut them…
Philadelphia police said Monday that a 10-year-old boy will face auto theft charges as a juvenile after he stole a van and wrecked five other vehicles before coming to a stop less than a block away. The incident, which occurred Sunday around noon, was caught on a nearby store’s surveillance…
How do you explain Mitt Romney’s seemingly endless stream of campaign gaffes? It’s easy: he’s obviously got a “self-destruct button” hidden somewhere. Or, at least that’s the operative idea behind a bit of political satire published Monday on Jest.com. With a building full of incredibly clumsy campaign staffers buzzing around…
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert revealed the inspiration behind his Colbert Report persona — and the confusion that his antics sometimes create. “I often don’t know who people invite to come talk to them,” Colbert said in the interview, which aired Sunday on Oprah’s…
Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck says that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s poll numbers have fallen as a part of a plan from God to make it obvious to the American people that divine intervention was responsible when Republicans take the White House in November. “I know Mitt Romney wasn’t…
A Philadelphia police officer has been caught on video allegedly punching a woman in the face after she appeared to throw water on him during the city’s Puerto Rican Day Parade over the weekend. Video of the incident dated Sept. 30, 2012 was uploaded by YouTube user Gisela Valentin on…
A Duluth, Minnesota police officer faces assault charges from his own department after the release of surveillance video showing him hitting a drunk 50-year-old man and allegedly splitting his head open. According to The Duluth News Tribune, Richard Jouppi has been placed on paid administrative leave while an independent prosecutor…
“I fucking love this city,” Lebowski Fest Founding Dude Scott Schufitt told WPHL-TV, outside Philadelphia’s Theatre of the Living Arts. It was Shufitt’s third Philadelphia-based Lebowski Fest, which he helped found in Louisville, Kentucky in 2002. “We were going to go in costume, but that would have required some effort,”…
As the Spanish government defends police response to anti-austerity protests surrounding the country’s Parliament building, Russia Times and other outlets reported instances of police violence against both media members and demonstrators. An Associated Press photographer reported seeing police “severely beat” at least one protester Saturday, who had to be hospitalized.…