It appears that even being a government minister is not enough to protect you from being pulled aside for ‘flying while Muslim.” Continue reading “U.S. Holds Britain’s First Muslim Minister at Dulles on Suspicion in Major Diplomatic Flap”
Category: Bizarre
In an unexpected move, the U.S. Army is close to overturning the convictions of 63 black soldiers 63 years ago in Seattle after rioting of POWs at Fort Lawton. Continue reading “Convictions of Black Soldiers Overturned — 63 Years Later”
FEMA is still trying to recover from its almost criminal negligence during the Katrina disaster. Eager to court good news on its California efforts, however, FEMA showed equally bad judgment in staging a news conference in which staffers posed questions like reporters without revealing the deception to the public. Continue reading “FEMA Fakes News Conference Using Staff Members as Faux Reporters”
The Missouri Highway Patrol is testing a new scanning device that can detect the presence of meth at the press of a button. Continue reading “Police Developing Meth Gun — And Raising Serious Privacy and Policy Questions”
A trial is on the way to determine whether privacy or free speech will prevail in a torts actions against the Westboro Baptist church of Topeka, Kansas, whose members have taunted the families of dead soldiers at their funerals with signs like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Continue reading “Westboro Church Case Pits Privacy Against Free Speech”
For many, the campaign of Rex Duncan, an Oklahoma legislator, upset at receiving a free Koran (or Quran) was just an example of one highly bigoted individual. Continue reading “Additional Lawmakers in Oklahoma Return Korans — But Not Bibles — In Condemnation of a Religion”
Harry Potter may have fought the death eaters and Lord Voldemort to a stand still but he is no match for Catholic St. Joseph’s pastor, the Rev. Ron Barker. Continue reading “A New Campaign Against Witches in Massachusetts: Catholic School Bans Harry Potter”
The government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that warns the the lack of restraint on putting people on the list is making it meaningless from a security standpoint — and increasingly annoying for citizens barred from flights. Continue reading “Terror Watch List Now Approaching 800,000 People”
In past cases involving shootings, police have argued that some people use the police to end their lives in so-called “suicide by cop” cases. Now, a defendant is claiming that another man wanted to be shot when he tried to engage in gay sex — what his defense attorney called “suicide by rape.” Continue reading “New Defense Theory: Suicide by Rape”
Oklahoma state Representative Rex Duncan is leading a campaign against the supply of copies of the Koran as part of a larger gift from the Governor’s Ethnic American Advisory Council. Continue reading “Oklahoma Legislator Objects to State-Supplied Koran — But Not the Bible”
New Jersey second-grader Kyle Walker drew a stick figure shooting a gun — and found himself suspended from school. Continue reading “Second-Grader in New Jersey Suspended for Drawing Stick Figure With Gun”
Hawley Crippen was once the most famous murderer in England — and may now be the most famously wrongly accused and executed man in England. Continue reading “Man Found Wrongly Convicted and Executed in 1910”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has attacked the Islamic Saudi Academy, a private school serving nearly 1,000 students in grades K-12 in northern Virginia’s Fairfax County. The Commission has that the school reflects a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society and promotion of religious extremism at Saudi schools. The real question is why we still have this commission funded by the federal government. Continue reading “United States Commission on Religion Attacks Islamic School”
We have seen more than a few abuses of police authority for personal reasons, such as the recent charge against a fast food worker for putting too much salt in an officer’s burger. Now, a woman has been charged with disorderly conduct for swearing inside her bathroom as a toilet overflowed into the kitchen. Continue reading “Potty Mouth Offense: Cop Charges Woman For Swearing Inside Her Own Home”
In the wake of the announcement of the controversial College of the American Soldier (where recruits will get college credits for simply learning tasks in military service), Chicago has opened the country’s first public high school run by the U.S. Marines. Continue reading “Marines to Run Chicago Public High School”