May 2013
May 31st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
The controversial co-chair of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley resigned his post, but not before embroiling the right wing governor in what critics say is an even more unenviable position than her Tea Party affiliation.
Fellow Tea Party activist, Roan Garcia-Quintana is also an admitted white supremacist so deeply rooted that even on his way out of power in the Haley 2014 reelection campaign, he...
May 31st, 2013
Written by John Flesher - ... in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) - Boosting education standards and crafting a new immigration policy that recognizes the valuable role newcomers play in creating jobs is essential to long-term economic growth, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday.
Speaking to Michigan business and government leaders on this Lake Huron resort island, Bush said the "right to rise" socially and economically is...
May 31st, 2013
Written by Peter James Spi... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - Indonesia's president is receiving an award for promoting religious freedom from a New York-based foundation, prompting anger from human rights groups that say the country is not doing enough to prevent attacks on religious minorities in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is in town for United Nations meetings on global development...
May 31st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
A Pennsylvania judge received a 30-year in prison sentence after his conviction for scheming with private prison officials to jail thousands of innocent juveniles in return for more than $1 million in kickbacks.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned more than 4,000 convictions handed down by Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, who engineered the scheme between the years 2003 through 2008 in exchange...
May 31st, 2013
Written by Patty Talahongva in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
In the snow packed regions of Alaska, individuals living there have been labeled as Eskimos, an Algonquian word meaning “raw meat eaters.” While the term may seem acceptable to mainstream American, the subtle mention of the word ‘Eskimo’ conjures images of racial indignation for most Alaskans.
Alaskans classify themselves in distinct groups Athabascan, Aleut, Alutiq, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida,...