It was discovered that Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate and former mayor of New York, gave his mistress a police escort, who drove her around all day and walked her dog.
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Archive for the ‘civil rights’ Category
Giuliani gives mistress police escort on taxpayers dime
Friday, December 7th, 2007Anti-gay church held liable for damages
Thursday, November 1st, 2007A jury ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a reportedly gay dead U.S. Marine after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
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FEMA apologizes for fake press conference
Sunday, October 28th, 2007FEMA apologized for holding a fake press conference.
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Survey: Colbert support at 13%
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Results of a telephone survey showed that in a race versus Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hilary Clinton, comedian Stephen Colbert would receive 13% of all votes.
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Report: US terror ‘watch list’ may be getting too long
Thursday, October 25th, 2007It was reported that there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government’s terrorist “watch list,” and a government report raised concerns the list may be becoming too large.
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Poll: Half of America would never vote for Hillary
Saturday, October 20th, 200750% of American voters polled said they would never vote for Hillary Clinton, up from 46% in March.
[cause she's scary]
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Clinton: $5,000 for every US baby
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Hillary Clinton suggested she might give $5000 to babies.
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Mychal Bell out on bail
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Mychal Bell of the Jena Six was released on bail.
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Judge rules Patriot Act provision unconstitutional
Friday, September 28th, 2007A federal judge ruled two provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing secret wiretapping and un-substantiated searches are unconstitutional.
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Jena 6 teen’s case to be heard in juvenile court
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007The case of Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, will be heard in juvenile court, Louisiana’s governor announced Wednesday.
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Gov. official uses homeland security to stalk ex
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007A Government official was charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend using homeland security data.
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Thousands march to capitol to protest Iraq War
Monday, September 17th, 2007A march by thousands of protesters demanding an end to the Iraq war turned chaotic yesterday afternoon near the Capitol, where hundreds sprawled on the ground in a symbolic “die-in.” Police arrested 189 people.
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Texas Spares Life of Kenneth Foster
Saturday, September 1st, 2007The governor of Texas commuted the death sentence of Kenneth Foster yesterday six hours before Foster’s scheduled execution. Foster had been sentenced to death for a crime the state of Texas admits he did not commit or plan.
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U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
Saturday, September 1st, 2007The US military banned soldiers from accessing thinkprogress.org after an Aug. 22 column in which Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.â€
Texas to execute man for crime he didn’t commit
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Texas is preparing to execute a thirty-year old African American for a crime he’s openly known not to have committed.
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Bush Admin: We cannot be questioned
Thursday, August 16th, 2007The Bush administration said Monday the constitutionality of its warrantless electronic eavesdropping program cannot be challenged.
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Congress grants Bush broad surveillance powers
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007The Democrat-led Congress handed President Bush a major legislative victory this weekend when it voted to broadly expand the government’s authority to eavesdrop without warrant on the international telephone calls and email messages of American citizens.
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Democrats introduce Bush Admin. censure resolutions
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced resolutions calling for the censure of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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California to use paper ballots
Monday, August 6th, 2007California outlawed electronic voting machines.
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DC to pay $1 million to protestors
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to more than one hundred demonstrators rounded up and detained during an anti-war protest in September 2002.
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