Our April Exit Poll was: “Is the new healthcare bill a small step for social justice, or big one towards corporate totalitarianism?” We received the following two rather diametrically opposed responses: From JG in New York City: A small step… Read moreThe healthcare bill and corporate rule: our readers write
Latino advocacy groups plan to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new immigration law, asserting it permits racial profiling.
A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against nine suspected members of the “Hutaree” militia group accused of plotting deadly attacks on police officers.
The Obama administration will halt new work on the $3 billion “virtual fence” planned for the Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced.
The number of militias and other extremist groups in the US exploded in 2009, according to a report issued this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The man who shot two police officers at the Pentagon was apparently a devoted follower of the 9-11 “Truth” movement—who had proposed that the Pentagon fund his “research.”
The House of Representatives approved an extension of the USA Patriot Act with no new privacy measures—a move protested by the ACLU and other civil rights groups.
B’nai Brith Canada’s 2009 “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” reports over 1,200 incidents last year, an 11% increase over 2008 and a five-fold increase over the last decade.
While politicians and law enforcement equivocate on whether the Austin attack was an act of “terrorism,” Teabaggers and Patriots are hailing Joe Stack as a “hero.”
Guillame Joseph-Marc Beaulieu, 27 of Vancouver, has been arrested as “ringleader” of the “Black Bloc” anarchists who rioted in the city in protests against the Winter Olympics.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 22-year prison term for so-called “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, finding that a district court imposed a too lenient sentence.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against an Oklahoma anti-immigrant law, but did permit the state to enact provisions mandating employer use of E-Verify.
