Author: fairleft

Al Sharpton is an asshole, but right now the racial rabble rouser is righteously leading a campaign that might finally end the Chicago police’s ridiculously longstanding practices of brutality and torture. (If we regular...

As The Daily Howler points out below (emphasis added), only about 4% of Iowa’s voting-age population will participate in the Iowa caucuses. Why don’t we hear about this from the mainstream media? Why does the...

Why are Hillary and Obama the Democratic voters’ leading presidential candidates — 65% of likely primary voters choose them –when they’re so obviously bipartisan police-state corporate-whore imperialist...

I don’t know how to start or even title this damn thing — United States of Authoritah? UN Says Taser is Torture? Man Tasered for Not Signing Traffic Ticket? (video below the fold) . . . too often, giving a police...

This is what the right to peaceful assembly looks like in Amerika today: a cloud of pepper spray in the face. There has been absolutely no violence against the police. That point was even noted by Commander Bjorstad [of the...