The Great Recession, fueled by the crises in the housing and financial markets, was universally hard on the net worth of American families. But even as the economic recovery has begun to mend asset prices, not all households have benefited alike, and wealth inequality has widened along racial and ethnic lines… Read More At: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/ Clip from the Monday, December …
Newt Gingrich: Allow Unlimited Money In Politics
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday asserted that individuals should be able to donate unlimited amounts of money to candidates because billionaires Charles and David Koch were needed to overcome the power of media personalities like Barbara Walters… Read More At: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/newt-gingrich-ban-campaign-finance-laws-so-koch-brothers-can-offset-power-of-barbara-walters/ Clip from the Monday, December 15th 2014 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live …
POLL: 51% Of U.S. Is Pro-Torture
Following the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation practices in the period following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 51% of the public says they think the CIA methods were justified, compared with just 29% who say they were not justified; 20% do not express an opinion… Read More At: http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/15/about-half-see-cia-interrogation-methods-as-justified/ Clip from the Monday, December 15th 2014 edition …
Justice Scalia: Torture Isn’t Unconstitutional
In an interview with Radio Television Suisse this week following the release of Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said he doesn’t “think it’s so clear at all” that the U.S. Constitution prohibits torture, especially in the “ticking time bomb” scenarios so often cited by defenders of the “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Read More At: http://www.mediaite.com/online/justice-scalia-constitution-doesnt-prohibit-torture/ …
Cheney: ‘I Have No Problem’ With Torture Of Innocents
The most damning conclusion of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture funplex enhanced interrogation techniques performed under the Bush administration was that above being illegal and immoral, they were ineffective in procuring valuable intelligence, often producing false information that then squandered resources… Read More At: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cheney-to-chuck-todd-torture-absolutely-worked/ Clip from the Monday, December 15th 2014 edition of The Kyle …
Dick Cheney: Forced Rectal Feeding Isn’t Torture
Appearing on Meet the Press to defend the CIA’s torture funplex enhanced interrogation techniques during his administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney went full Alice in Wonderland, saying that the techniques failed to cross the threshold of legal definition of torture, that legal definition being the one that allowed the techniques… Read More At: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dick-cheney-refuses-to-call-forced-rectal-feeding-torture/ Clip from the Monday, December …
Anti-Gay Billboard Fails In So Many Ways
The South African man featured on an antigay billboard in Richmond, Virginia spoke up Thursday saying that he himself is gay and that he does not agree with the billboard’s message… Read More At: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/twin-from-nobodys-born-gay-billboard-i-am-gay-and-im-not-a-twin/ Clip from the Friday, December 12th 2014 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday …