Leland Keyser, a longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford’s, reportedly told the FBI that she felt “pressured” to revise her earlier statement that she had not attended any parties with Brett Kavanaugh back in high school.
Keyser, was one of three – and later, four – people whom Ford said had attended a party in high school where she claims she was sexually assaulted by a then-teenage Kavanaugh…
And this is what happens when you let the inmates take over the asylum.
A Whole Foods in Berkeley, California – yep, that Berkeley – actually had to file a restraining order against a group of militant vegan protesters who’d planned to “occupy” their store.
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), a group dedicated to "total animal liberation," had planned to camp out in and around the high-end grocery…
Like Sen. Jeff Flake just a few days earlier, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy found himself on the pointy end of an anti-Kavanaugh protester’s self-righteous finger Wednesday, being accosted while walking down a hall in the Capitol Building and accused of supporting a “rapist” for the Supreme Court.
But unlike Sen. Jeff Flake, Cassidy didn’t fold like a cheap deck of cards.
The moment was caught…
Some Mexicans could soon find themselves facing jail time if they dare to post “harmful” memes or pictures online.
According to the Independent U.K., the Mexican state of Veracruz voted to approve a measure that would criminalize the posting of “harmful or malicious” images, videos, memes and messages that may damage a person’s “reputation or self-esteem.” Publishing such a post could land…
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey told CNN Thursday that the FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – the investigation that Senate Democrats have demanded, mind you – is now nothing more than a "cover up" by Senate Republicans and the White House.
Speaking to "CNN Newsroom," Markey dubbed the investigation a "mockery" of the…
John Iadarola, a “journalist” and online host for the Young Turks, put his virtual foot in his mouth Wednesday when he wrongly attributed a Clinton-era quote to Lindsey Graham, falsely accusing the South Carolina senator of comparing Dr. Christine Ford to trailer trash.
Speaking with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Tuesday, Graham criticized President Trump for seeming to lightly mock Ford’s…
Yesterday, I wrote that Harvard Law had canceled Brett Kavanaugh’s decade-long class on Supreme Court history after “pressure from students and alumni” forced him to withdraw from teaching the course he’d headed up since 2008. But it turns out that “pressure” was even worse – and even dumber – than I’d thought.
First, the Harvard Undergraduate Council demanded university officials open an…
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (a.k.a. "Spartacus") admitted Tuesday that the question isn’t really whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is “innocent or guilty” of sexual misconduct against women in high school, but merely whether “enough questions have been raised” to move on to another nominee.
“Beyond the vicious partisan rancor that is going on, beyond the accusations, we…
Charges were dropped Monday against four California men falsely accused of sexual assault after a cell phone video debunked their female accuser’s claim that they’d gang raped her in a Las Vegas hotel.
Ali Badkoobehi and brothers Poria Edalat, Saman Edalat and Sina Edalat, all dentists from California, were arrested in late July and charged with sexual assault, conspiracy to commit sexual…
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday actually asked a sitting U.S. senator whether any FBI probe into allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh should include questions over whether the Supreme Court nominee was “rude or showed belligerence to senators.”
Here's Mitchell's entire, honest-to-God question:
“We were just talking to Frank Figlese, a former FBI officer, top ranking…
