Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of the...
Jacob Marbury, after being nearly killed by his babysitter (image courtesy Joshua Marbury's Facebook)
This weekend, I told you about little Jacob Marbury, a one-year-old baby boy from Sherwood, Oregon who was horribly beaten by his babysitter while his parents were out on a date. Incredibly, the sleazeball who did this...
Most people would be shocked to learn that this beautiful coastal state was originally billed by its founders as a "White Utopia." Today the state of Oregon has one of the lowest minority populations in the...
Jacob Marbury, after being nearly killed by his babysitter (image courtesy Joshua Marbury's Facebook)
Two months ago, a baby boy in Sherwood, Oregon was nearly killed by his babysitter. Now, to pile obscenity on top of insult and injury, the boy's parents found out on Friday that the attacker could potentially...
Yes, we already knew that the militia thugs who have seized the Malheur Wildlife Refuge are a bunch of wannabe tough guys who think they have valid reasons for being such monumental asshats, but it also...
While 31 governors--the majority of them in the South--have said they don't want Syrian refugees in their state, one governor is going against that trend and saying those fleeing the Syrian civil war and ISIS...
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (image courtesy Clarke's Twitter)
David Clarke, the sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; has been an embarrassment for some time. He's a full-on gun nut who thinks we should add an AR-15 to the Great Seal, thinks Black Lives Matter should just...
Candi Kinney is the owner of Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg, Oregon. Yes, that is indeed the very same Roseburg, Oregon that has been in the news this week because a man walked onto the...
Grant County sheriff Glenn Palmer (image courtesy The Blue Mountain Eagle via NBC News)
Yesterday, we told you that a number of Republican state legislators in the Pacific Northwest may have been complicit in the Bundy brothers' plot to take over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Specifically, they were...
Twenty-two. That's how many veterans on average commit suicide in the United States every day. It's also the number of miles Navy veteran Thomas Zurhellen plans to walk each day on a trek across the country from...
Ammon Bundy, the self-appointed leader of the militiamen who have taken control of the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve, might want to start saving his loose change, because an Oregon judge has one whopper of a bill...
Pete Santilli, spokesperson for the Oregon thugs (screengrab courtesy Fox News Channel via Media Matters)
For the last two weeks, far-right Internet radio host Pete Santilli has been touted as the de facto spokesperson for the militiamen occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Santilli is of a piece with the thugs...
Something was wrong, very wrong. Dr. Ron Jaecks was running through the dark in Bush's Pasture Park located in Salem when a sharp pain at the top of his head made him feel as if...
A brave rancher in Eagle Point, Oregon helped thwart a bike thief at a local Walmart. Witnesses say a man was trying to steal a bicycle, so this rancher just lassoed him. The thief was arrested...
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2016/jan/05/oregon-standoff-enters-4th-day/
Dear Oregon Wanna-be Militia-Men, Go home, boys. When you started this "stand-off" at a wild bird sanctuary, with all your bravado and weapons at the ready, you were quoted as saying you were ready to hold...
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The House is set to vote on the Obamacare replacement bill later today. But a series of sobering independent studies from think tanks across the country should give our Representatives pause before they cast their votes to make...
A latrine trench the "patriots" dug at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge (image courtesy U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service via KOIN)
When anyone calls out the armed men who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as the thugs that they were, their supporters are likely to say they weren't thugs at all. No, no--they were...
In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly half a million people lack indoor plumbing. No surprise, most of them are people of color. According to research from the Plumbing Poverty Project (PPP), in...
One of the most prominent members of the so-called Oregon militia headed by Ammon Bundy is mighty pissed off because he's lost his sole source of income while he's off pretending to be some kind...
You would never think a tiny bird could make a monumental impact at a presidential rally, but think again! On Friday afternoon, Bernie Sanders’ speech was interrupted by an unaccompanied bird, causing the crowd to...