Archive | February 1, 2012

Newt Gingrich attack dog Rick Tyler: Democrats abort black babies (video)

Newt Gingrich’s guy spews racist nonsense in an epic MSNBC showdown. I’m supposed to be writing a piece for the morning making sense of the Florida primary, but I have to post this interview Rachel Maddow and Rev. Al Sharpton just did with Rick Tyler, Newt Gingrich’s former communications director who now runs his Sheldon [...]

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Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor” (video)

Topics:2012 Elections Mitt Romney took a big step on Tuesday night toward wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination. But the morning after his landslide Florida victory he demonstrated — not for the first time — why he could be a uniquely flawed standard-bearer for his party. “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” Romney said [...]

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Believe in America, but put your money in swiss banks and the Cayman Island

By Easton L Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Matthew 19:25.   That biblical passage was written for rich hypocrites like Mitt Romney who walk around telling the rest of us to [...]

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Rap reggae pioneer King Stitt dies at 72

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — King Stitt, a pioneer in rap reggae, died Tuesday in his Caribbean homeland of Jamaica. He was 72. Stitt died at his home in the capital of Kingston after a long fight with prostate cancer and diabetes, said Jamaican musicologist Bunny Goodison, who was a close friend to the performer for [...]

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Police sergeant in Obama photo flap reassigned (video)

by Sonu Munshi The Peoria police sergeant under internal investigation for posting a controversial photo on Facebook has been taken off patrol duty pending a complete inquiry, Police Chief Roy Minter Jr. told The Republic Tuesday. The photo, that has since been removed, along with Sgt. Pat Shearer’s Facebook profile, featured seven students from Centennial [...]

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