R. Cort Kirkwood
Poll: 31 Percent of Occupiers Support Violence
The Occupy Wall Street Movement’s list of crimes grows daily. Since this writer last reported on the leftist OWS, citing John Nolte’s blog at Big Journalism, the list of crimes has increased more than 30 percent.
OWS Rap Sheet Grows Longer
The hits just keep on coming from Occupy Wall Street. Since The New American last reported on the 204 crimes the nationwide OWS movement has been charged with committing, the movement has added another 50 or so to the list, including a rape in the city of Brotherly Love. As well, the death toll in or near the squalid OWS camps is now seven. Late last week, a man was found dead in his tent at the Occupy Salt Lake City protest.
HHS Cuts Funds to Catholic Bishops Who Help Human Trafficking Victims
The American Civil Liberties Union finally got its way. The pro-abortion Obama administration’s Health and Human Services Department, led by renegade Catholic Kathleen Sebelius (left), has cut off funding for the Catholic bishops' program to help victims of human trafficking.
The decision ends $2.5 million in funding for the bishops' office of Migration and Refugee Services, which provides help to women exploited by those who would force them into hard labor, and often into prostitution. The women become virtual sex slaves.
Actors Sean Penn, Alan Cumming: Tea Party Is Racist
Two more Hollywood actors have joined their voices with those of Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, John Hamm, and Janeane Garofalo: Sean Penn (left) and Alan Cumming say the Tea Party is racist. Cumming added that the Tea Party is also "homophobic."
Half of Population Lives in Subsidized Households
Nearly half the American population lives in households that receive a payment from the federal government. That’s the latest alarming news from the Wall Street Journal’s Sara Murray (left), who tracks the federal subsidy programs for the newspaper.
Samuel L. Jackson: Tea Party Is Racist
Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson (left) has issued his opinion: The Tea Party is racist. In his assessment, he follows other stars of the silver screen such as Morgan Freeman, Jon Hamm, and Janeane Garofalo, as well as a former top executive of National Public Radio and members of the American Political Science Association and the Congressional Black Caucus.
UN To Build Massive New Tower in NYC
The United Nations expects to build a massive new office complex next door to the globalist behemoth that already towers over Turtle Bay in Manhattan. And it will raze a neighborhood playground to do it, showing that nothing, not even children, obstructs globalism on the march.
Chicago Union Bosses Legally Loot City Pension Fund
Thanks to an unnoticed provision legislators slipped into state law 20 years ago, almost two dozen union leaders in Chicago stand to walk off with a cool $56 million in pension money, the Chicago Tribune reported last week.
Reports: Perrys Texas Miracle Isnt
The Texas Miracle of Texas Gov. Rick Perry is little more than a Texas-sized myth.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Tries To Block Cherokee Ejection Of Blacks
The Cherokee Nation is in a heap of big trouble from the top chiefs at the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has fired an epistolary arrow at the nation because it sent its black members on a trail of tears.