"A secular activist group is claiming that there are 24 members of Congress who have a big secret that they refuse to tell their constituents and the general public: they’re atheists.
Sharpton said the “bad apples” must be taken care of within American police departments, but the black community must also be “straight up” about its own issues."
A life-sized statue of Obama was stolen off the porch of Tiffany Bruce from Wilkes-Barre, PA, who went into such a panic over the theft she had to go to the hospital.
"A top-secret Pentagon mission to try to rescue captured American journalist James Foley was reportedly delayed some 30 days, while President Obama weighed the political consequences of either success or failure…and calculated about timing for a high-profile photo op…and played half-a-dozen rounds of golf. Foley was beheaded by an ISIS terrorist, a barbaric act shown in a horrific video."
"School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie, long served in local school cafeterias, was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered sugar and the Obama administration’s food police."Frank Calcaterra was in his 80s in 2008 when his family hired a home care company to help the former metro Detroit funeral home owner look after his ailing wife Jonnie, who had dementia.The company — Kentucky-based ResCare — sent Tangie Coleman, who, at the time, had a warrant out for her arrest, records show.Jonnie’s jewelry soon began to disappear, as did Frank Calcaterra’s sizable fortune. Estimates from court filings put the loss at anywhere from more than $500,000 to more than $1.5 million. When Jonnie Calcaterra died in a nursing home in January 2012, Coleman and her mother were living in Frank Calcaterra’s lakefront home in Waterford and he was sleeping in the basement.A few months later, Coleman married Calcaterra in Ohio without his family’s knowledge.
"Judge Jeanine Pirro ripped apart the grand jury indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry as “pure, unadulterated hogwash” in her opening comment on August 16th. Judge Jeanine is a former county prosecutor, elected district attorney, and judge who knows how the grand jury process works from three decades of experience."
"I've always felt we need to be as progressive an organization as we can," he told Yahoo Sports. "We don't know what's coming. If at some point in time that would be deemed to be appropriate, we'll consider it. At the moment, I don't see the necessity and don't think we should be compensating kids right now.
"The American breakfast favorite is under attack in Vermont. After a Muslim woman complained in a community forum about a sign within her city with a picture of bacon, the restaurant who posted the sign removed it out of ‘respect for diversity’ and ‘concerns for safety."
Why do people recycle and buy organic foods? According to Marijn Meijers and Bastiaan Rutjens, a couple of social scientists at the University of Amsterdam, they do it to realize a sense of personal control stemming from their fear that disorder is increasing in the world. Technological optimists, meanwhile, are more likely to eschew the comfort of such rituals.
"According to a Media Research Center analysis, from the moment Perry was indicted on two flimsy counts by a Travis County, Texas grand jury on August 15 through the morning of August 20, the Big Three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – have run 24 stories totaling 38 minutes and 34 seconds across their morning and evening broadcasts.
"There is an important fact about Michael Brown’s death that cannot be admitted to by the manic teeming hordes of protesters, their outrage not only filling the streets of Ferguson, but also saturating the airwaves of our Nation, broadcasted to every device wired to spread the frenzy."
