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Why People Who Vote for Republicans in the Midterms Deserve Your Anger and Spite
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 6 years ago • LOCKED
The Rude Pundit 11-05-2018 Let me tell you about my weekend. I was at a reunion of a lovely, kind, generous family who I am fortunate to know. There were over 100 people there, all related to Irish immigrants who came to the United States at the start of the 20th century. A very old man...
Ohio Priest Admits He Impregnated Underage Altar Girl
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Religion & Ethics • 75 Comments • 6 years ago
“Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven‘s own church in the Diocese of Steubenville told police he admitted to sexual contact with the 17-year-old girl....”
Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven‘s own church in the Diocese of Steubenville told police he admitted to sexual contact with the 17-year-old girl. Foxhoven is 45. He’s been charged with eight counts of sexual battery. News reports indicate that he and the girl both told her parents she was...
Kids of GOP Missouri House Candidate: Don’t Vote for Dad; “He Must Be Stopped”
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 6 years ago
““A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West said. “He’s made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn’t like...”
The kids may be all right after all. Two of the three children of Steve West, a Missouri Republican running for a seat in the State House, are urging citizens not to cast a vote for their father. “A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West said. “He’s made multiple comments that...
Australian man jailed for persuading wife to kill herself
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
“Prosecutors told the court the husband wanted to spend the insurance on building a religious commune.”
CANBERRA, Australia — A self-styled preacher who wanted to claim his wife's life insurance was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for persuading her to kill herself in what a judge described as an Australian-first conviction. Graham Morant, 69, was convicted by a Queensland state Supreme...
Profile in civility: Teen who said he'd kill Rep. Curbelo joins him in call for unity
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago
“"And as for Pierre, I wish him the best. He made a mistake, and his life shouldn't be ruined because of it. I truly believe in second chances. I am...”
Nov. 02--As politicians everywhere have called for tolerance amid a wave of violence ahead of the midterm elections, Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo took political civility to new heights on Thursday by standing beside the man who just last week threatened to kill him. A week after the FBI...
Gab’s CEO Says Pittsburgh Suspect Doesn’t Represent The Site. But He Spent Years Recruiting Racists Like Him.
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago
“About a week later, a Gab user with an account made to look like Hayden’s posted addresses and phone numbers tied to him, his parents and his...”
Andrew Torba has promoted white nationalists and looked the other way as Gab users posted racist death threats on his platform. Soon after Robert Bowers was accused of walking into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and killing 11 people, Gab, the social media platform where he’d railed against...
Special Counsel Refers Scheme Targeting Mueller to FBI
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago
“He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was) ‘I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert...”
An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, according to a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, Peter Carr. “When we learned last week of allegations that women...
'THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD’: Woman greets family by calling their child the n-word, police say
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 65 Comments • 6 years ago
““We moved here to a WHITE TOWN, ALL WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD — FOR HEALTH REASONS AMONG OTHER THINGS. THIS IS OUR FOREVER HOME, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO MOVE...”
An Indiana woman is accused of writing a racist note targeting a black child who was moving into a new neighborhood with his family, using a racial slur and telling them, “THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD.” Authorities said 63-year-old Deborah Cantwell, who is white, penned the letter and placed it...
A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have No Compassion
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Mental Health and Wellness • 29 Comments • 6 years ago
“They are easily incited, easily led, rather un-inclined to think for themselves, largely impervious to facts and reason and rely instead on social...”
February 17, 2012, 9:00 AM GMT A former Republican Senate Congressional staffer on why right-wingers think people without insurance deserve to die. Although Mitt Romney used the word "conservative" 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference,...