Until very recently, prison doctors in California were regularly coercing female inmates into sterilization procedures, an outrage detailed in the newly released joint TYT/Center for Investigative Reporting documentary, “Sterilized Behind Bars” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajfS0c-YsA). In this segment the expert panel of criminal justice activists and scholars discusses ongoing problems with the US criminal justice system, including racial disparities in sentencing, the …
MPAA Wants to Teach Anti-Piracy to 6-Year Olds in School
Anti-piracy lobbyists have a new plan to protect their clients’ money- push anti-piracy curriculum on school children from kindergarten through 6th grade! Is there really room to teach kids the “evils of filesharing” in already-crammed curriculums? Is the (almost certainly biased toward movie studios and music labels) lesson more important than cut programming for the arts? The Center for …
O’Reilly On 60 Minutes Benghazi Apology: Mistakes Happen
“On Sunday morning’s Media Buzz, host Howard Kurtz quizzed fellow Fox host Bill O’Reilly on whether he was still anathema to mainstream media, and why he and Fox News didn’t cover 60 Minutes’ erroneous Benghazi report more, given the network’s year-long fascination with the story. “You like to set up this narrative of you vs. media elite,” Kurtz began, …
Middle Class Benefits Targeted By Washington Post
“…There are basically two categories of people who want to see Social Security cut: 1) financiers who wish to move us toward privatized retirement accounts so that they can charge us fees; and 2) rich people who do not like to pay taxes. Their main champions are conservatives at the Heritage Foundation, libertarians at the Cato Institute and Wall …
Senator Compared To Mussolini For Filibuster Vote
“A conservative blog in Louisiana on Thursday posted an image of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s face superimposed on the body of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini — and an hour later, the campaign manager of Landrieu’s main opponent next year, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), tweeted out a link to the post. The Hayride blog on Louisiana politics featured an entry — …
Man Arrested 60+ Times For Trespassing At His Own Job
“A Florida convenience store owner is preparing to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against local police after collecting more than two dozen videos detailing what he describes as regular harassment by officers against both customers and his employees. The Miami Herald reported that since installing cameras at his store in June 2012, 207 Quickstop owner Alex Saleh has …
Kim Kardashian Sells Clothes For Typhoon Victims, Keeps Most Of The Money
“Kim Kardashian is auctioning off her clothes on eBay to raise money for victims of the deadly typhoon in the Philippines. She will give 10 percent of the sales to charity. Kardashian announced the eBay auction on her Celebuzz blog Thursday (Nov. 21), saying a portion of the proceeds will go to the International Medical Corps (IMC), a nonprofit …