In Texas, they’re building a memorial plaza for Chris Kyle, the sniper of "American Sniper", with trees from George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch. Kyle was, at a “bare minimum, was a racist who took pleasure in dehumanising and killing brown people”.
In President Obama's press conference, the President called out American journalists to do their job especially in regards to the Trump candidacy. Fat chance.
Sadiq Khan, a human rights lawyer and Labor Minister of Parliment, has become Mayor of London. Why is this importantant? Why should we even care? As The New York Times writes: “The victory also makes him one of the most prominent Muslim politicians in the West.”
Several times when I have mentioned by distaste for Hillary Clinton, one of the common replies from the Hillaryites has been, "I guess you will be voting for Trump in…
Late last night and this morning, I was working on a piece about why I didn’t vote for Hillary. (Jason has a great piece on why he voted for Bernie. You should read it.) So I got my post done and then I found this new editorial by Shaun King, If voting for Hillary Clinton means voting against my core beliefs, I’m not sure I can do it.
Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Remember with Kasich was consider the normal one? Kasich recently said, "How did I get elected [to the legislature]? I didn’t have anybody…