The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest. ”This event is horrifying, alarming, but not necessarily surprising,” said Mike Jensen, a researcher at the University of Maryland, which has tracked such […]
When the shooter fits the media’s preferred villain, headlines write themselves. When the facts get messy, the press goes quiet. Americans have noticed. Two church shootings, a decade apart, received strikingly different treatment from America’s corporate media. The first occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The second took place in Minneapolis just last week.
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What was it like on Bourbon Street for a New Orleans Policeman Wednesday this week? Imagine you are a New Orleans cop assigned the overnight shift on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Eve. You know it’s going to be a long one. You’ll be breaking up fights and doing crowd control. Indeed, you’ll have to
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On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy released 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal, which was handwritten by Hale between January and March of 2023, can be downloaded here. The journal was legally obtained by The Star from a source familiar
“You can sit and enjoy the show,” wrote the leader of a Kentucky militia on Facebook. “Or you can join it. There will come a time, you will have no choice!” The Secret Service had already been under investigation by House Oversight Committee Republicans for several months when a bullet came within inches of killing
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They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they’re coming from, and they have no idea where they’re going. And if that’s the case, how can we, as the public, trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records,
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It has become almost impossible to report whether violent crime across the nation has increased or decreased. There are multiple reasons for this dilemma. Though many disagree on the increase or decrease in the numbers of crimes of all kinds, most Americans feel certain violent crime is not only increasing but is doing so in
It was just last week that we noticed that parts of the transgender movement seemed to be getting militant and possibly dangerous. We did a whole segment about it on Thursday night. That segment was sparked by an NPR segment we had heard and never expected to hear. NPR, as always, as a matter of
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Yesterday we discussed the successful changes made by the nation of Israel to stop their rampant school shootings. They fortified every school in the country, locking each facility down while making each facility impervious to “normal” school shooting incidents. These measures included complete fencing, a “one-way-in” and “one-way-out” access process, armed teachers and administrators, and
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How was your week? Just another normal few days. Life in the United States is just plain old boring. It may be boring, but it certainly is not normal: at least of late. We Americans are guilty of taking too much for granted. Things happen that are certainly everyday occurrences, so much so that we
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