Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) said Thursday night that he was disappointed to see Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disavow his belief in climate change. As the governor of Massachusetts, Romney had worked to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. But at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Romney joked about…
Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio said Wednesday at a Romney campaign rally that his wife was at home doing laundry while he gave political speeches. “You know, Jane Portman, Karen Kasich, and Janna Ryan, they operate an awful lot of the time in the shadows,” he said in Owensville,…
Union delegate Darryl Reed explained Monday that the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) began their strike on Monday to prevent teachers from being unjustly fired. “We’ve been saying all along that the [Chicago Public School system] did not think that we were this strong, did not think that we were serious,…
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Wednesday blasted the Republican majority in the House over a five year extension of the warrantless wiretapping provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “While it is appropriate for our government to gather foreign intelligence, and while some degree of secrecy is necessary, it…
A hair-raising Los Angeles police chase ended Wednesday with a mob surrounding a group of alleged bank robbers who were seen throwing armloads of cash from their vehicle as they fled. It began around 10 a.m., when four men allegedly robbed a Bank of America in Santa Clarita, according to…
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Wednesday responded to this week’s attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya by explaining to his viewers that Muslims “go crazy” when Islam is insulted because they can’t defend the tenets of their religion. On Tuesday, U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and at…
A Tuesday press conference in Tampa, Florida, criticizing a local Islamic leader’s school appearance was interrupted by protesters denouncing the organizers for using hateful rhetoric. WTVT-TV reported that the gathering, involving the “Education Coalition” of a local Christian organization, the Community Issues Council (CIC), was intended to protest local school…
A New York man is suing the Hooters restaurant chain after he was identified with an anti-Asian slur on his receipt to the company’s Queens location. According to WCBS-TV, Kisuk Cha, a recent immigrant to the U.S. from Korea, said he and his girlfriend were called “chinx” on the receipts…