Three commercial airplanes owned by US Airways nearly collided on Wednesday afternoon during inclement weather at the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Authorities attribute the near-crash to a “miscommunication between the Tracon and the DCA tower led to a loss of the required separation between two regional jets…
A 12-year-old girl is recovering after being Tasered in a St. Louis Victoria’s Secret while police officers were trying to arrest her mother over warrants for traffic tickets. The mother is now demanding an investigation, even though police insist their actions were appropriate. Dejamon Baker showed KSDK the wounds on…
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Wednesday chided Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for claiming Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes for ten years. But he also savaged Fox News for reporting baseless claims. Reid told the Huffington Post that a Bain investor informed him that…
Chicago alderman Joe Moreno said Wednesday that the fast food chain Chick-fil-A had a “disturbing” history of discrimination. During an interview with the Baptist Press, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy insisted the company was “guilty as charged” when it came to supporting anti-gay groups, sparking outrage in the LGBT community. Moreno…
The current political football surrounding Chick-Fil-A’s support of anti-gay groups inspired singer Kristie Stremel to let the fast food chain know how she felt. “Oh, Chick-Fil-A doesn’t like me cause I’m gay,” she sang on a video uploaded to YouTube. “So I wrote a little song to say: Cluck Off!…
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Wednesday said that she would not be a member of the Republican Party if it were not for novelist Gore Vidal. “I had been a Democrat and I’d actually worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign and I was reading a novel by Gore Vidal and when…
In this clip from “Funny or Die,” Col. Sanders (as played by John Goodman) has a message for “the gays” who may be put off by the Chick-Fil-A chain’s millions of dollars of support each year to virulently anti-LGBT organizations and statements made by CEO Dan Cathy asserting that he…
A Mississippi mother is accusing police in Jonesboro, Arkansas of killing her son after he was found shot in the head with his hands cuffed behind his back in a squad car. A police report obtained by KAIT indicated that 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter had been a passenger in a…
The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of trying to make African Americans into “slaves” and “drug-addled addicts” with welfare benefits. “The Democrats as a party, I believe, they want slaves, they want Americans to be as slavishly dependent upon…