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Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…
We have only begun to graze the tip of the iceberg when it comes to obscene, disgusting wingnut reactions to the Charleston mass murder that ended the lives of 9 black churchgoers, aged from 26 to 87, on Wednesday night. So we guess it’s time for NRA people to start saying words, and surprise, they are…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state of Texas doesn’t have to make “Sons of Confederate Veterans” license plates available if it don’t wanna. The state didn’t wanna, the Sons Of Treason thought that was violating their free speech, and the Supremes said, no, dear, a license plate is the government’s speech, not yours,…
Larry Wilmore was horrified by conservative reactions to the killing of nine people in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday. And while the “Nightly Show” host said that he was initially reluctant to address the massacre on his comedy program because it didn’t seem like the proper forum for a tragedy of this volume, Wilmore couldn’t sit idly…
A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began complaining that…
Thousands of mythical, dazzling (and scantily clad) sea creatures are about to descend on Coney Island. The annual Mermaid Parade, the largest art parade in the nation and one of the city’s biggest festivals, kicks off this Saturday at 1pm. Actor Mat Fraser, who reigns over this year’s parade as King Neptune, has a blunt question:…
remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag London Underground drivers will stage a 24-hour strike next month in a move that union leaders have warned will shut down the entire network during Wimbledon. Members of Aslef will walk out from 9.30pm on Wednesday, July 8 in a long-running row over pay and…
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Jon: WELCOME “THE DAILYSHOW.” I’M JON STEWART. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE– WE HAVE A VERY GOOD SHOWTONIGHT. VERY, VERY GOOD SHOW TONIGHT BECAUSE OF OUR GUEST. WE ARE VISITED TODAY FORTUNATELYBY MALALA YOUSAFZAI, WHO IS ONE OF OUR FAVORITES. SHE A YOUNG WOMAN FROMPAKISTAN– ( CHEERS…
South Carolina Gun Violence South Carolina’s rates of gun crime are some of the worst in the nation. • South Carolina is the seventh-deadliest state for gun homicide: There were 5 gun murders for every 100,000 people in the state in 2010, 39 percent higher than the national average of 3.6 gun murders per 100,000…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.