In a vociferous defense of the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg accused critics of the practice, which is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit, of trying to make the city less safe. The mayor even lashed out at the New York Times for failing to cover the senseless murder of a 17-year-old black boy—the [...]
The Washington Post Latest to Charge Heavy Website Users
March 19, 2013 | Posted by
The Washington Post has become the latest newspaper in the United States to announce that it will start charging frequent users of its website a monthly fee, joining the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and others in imposing a paywall on consumers. The Post, like its rivals, has been suffering financially as readers have moved [...]
Tesla Motors CEO Battles New York Times Over Electric Car Review
February 14, 2013 | Posted by
Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has fired back at The New York Times, releasing vehicle logs that contradict the Times’ recent story about a road trip in a Model S Sedan and calling on the venerable news organization to “investigate the article and determine the truth.” Last week, New York Times reporter John Broder published a lengthy [...]
WikiLeaks: Accused Leaker Manning Seeks Plea Deal
January 10, 2013 | Posted by
The case of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst in Iraq accused of leaking huge amounts of classified information to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, may never see a trial if the prosecution accepts a plea deal offered yesterday by Manning’s lawyers. Manning is facing life in prison without parole if convicted on all charges, which [...]
Lance Armstrong Admission of Drug Use May be Forthcoming
January 5, 2013 | Posted by
Lance Armstrong, the former seven-time Tour de France champion, has told close associates that he is contemplating admitting to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to the New York Times Friday. In the past, the 41-year-old Armstrong has stoutly denied the use of performance-enhancing drugs, but is now having second thoughts because the admission would [...]
Warren Lee Hill to be Put to Death Tomorrow Despite Retardation
July 22, 2012 | Posted by
Tomorrow is D-Day for Warren Lee Hill , the day when he will be put to death by the state of Georgia in a case that has drawn national attention because of the harshness of the Georgia law being applied. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that the mentally retarded should not be [...]
Mitt Romney and the Rich ARE Different from the Rest of Us
July 20, 2012 | Posted by
How does Mitt Romney’s extreme wealth make him different from the rest of us? This is the provocative question that Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explores in the New York Times today in a column that will likely cause Romney serious agitation. The meaning and relevancy of Romney’s wealth is an issue that has emerged [...]
Refugee Children Dying at Alarming Rate in South Sudan, Aid Groups Say
July 6, 2012 | Posted by
NAIROBI, Kenya — Nine children are dying every day from preventable illnesses like diarrhea in an overcrowded, swampy refugee camp in South Sudan, and United Nations officials said Friday that they were stepping up efforts to evacuate people from the camp as fast as they could. Heavy rains, overflowing latrines and a ceaseless influx of [...]
‘Won’t Back Down’ Movie Trailer Released
May 19, 2012 | Posted by
The first trailer for ‘Won’t Back Down’ has made its debut. The feel-good drama stars Oscar winning actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis. In the film, the two stars play crusading parents on a mission to help improve the failing education system for their children and other inner city students. Along the way they collide [...]
