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Plane crashes into roof of Florida supermarket
An experimental small aircraft crashed into the roof of a Publix supermarket in DeLand, Florida on Monday evening sending shoppers and employees fleeing the resulting fireball. According to ABC News, five people were injured in the explosion, including the aircrafts’s pilot and passenger, who are in critical condition. Witnesses reported…
Romney: Obama wants to ‘establish a religion called secularism’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday said that President Barack Obama had taken his war on faith to the next level by wanting to establish a new “religion” for the purpose of rejecting all religious doctrines. At an event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a supporter asked the candidate what the…
Hedges: NDAA is ‘chilling’ the practice of journalism
Speaking about his lawsuit against the U.S. government over its claim that it may indefinitely imprison anyone it believes to be involved in terrorism, journalist Chris Hedges warned that the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is already having a “chilling” effect on the serious practice of journalism. That’s because…
Colbert: Pink slime is ‘a member of the transgender community’
Stephen Colbert addressed the crackdown on pink slime Monday evening, describing it as “delicious wholesome meal” that is used to “form the Hamburger Helper.” “Oh, pink slime is bad, but green slime is good to dump on our children?” the Comedy Central host said. “Pink slime is nothing more than…
Jon Stewart lampoons tepid endorsements of Romney
Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday night analyzed the less-than-enthusiastic endorsements of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “Look, Romney is going to be the nominee. Everybody’s decided. They’re all getting behind him. What they haven’t really decided is why,” he said. Many Republicans have offered mild endorsements of the…
Maddow: Santorum campaign like the comments on a birther blog
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Monday night that it was difficult to report on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum because he does not appear to be running a serious campaign. On Monday, Santorum falsely claimed that “seven or eight” of the University of California’s ten campuses did not offer any…
Reporter Laura Bassett: Nothing less pro-life than bombing health clinic
Laura Bassett, political reporter for The Huffington Post, said Monday that an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin on Sunday night was “absolutely” domestic terrorism. “These people are calling themselves pro-life, and I can’t think of anything less pro-life than putting a bomb outside of a health clinic,”…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The ‘invention of tomorrow’ absent in American culture today
Popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Monday lamented that American culture no longer had a culture of innovation that prized scientific and technological discoveries. Tyson noted on MSNBC that space exploration no longer captured American’s attention like it previously had. He blamed the lack of public interest on the lack…
Kirk Cameron: Conditions in America could lead to dictatorship
While interviewing evangelist Ray Comfort about his pro-life film on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, actor Kirk Cameron suggested that the United States was ripe for the rise of a dictator like Adolf Hitler. The two men were discussing Comfort’s 2011 film 180: Changing the Heart of a Nation, according to…
Romney questioned about his Mormon faith
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday quickly shot down a hostile question regarding his Mormon faith during a town hall event in Green Bay. Bret Hatch, a 28-year old Ron Paul supporter, according to CNN, began reading a passage from the Book of Mormon that said the children of…
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