Nation

The Washington Post reports that a textbook given to fourth-graders in the Commonwealth of Virginia details that thousands of African American soldiers fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most Civil War historians.

Rand Paul is running for Senator for Kentucky with no political or executive experience at all. The two things he has going for him is his father’s name and his connection to the Tea Party movement. Like his father and the Tea Party movements, he has been tied to racism and white supremacist groups. In […]

A section of Times Square in New York has been reopened as police investigate a suspicious vehicle, a detective tells FoxNews.com. A man was reported seen running from the vehicle, which started the security scare. Police originally blocked off and cleared pedestrians on 43rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Failed Times Square bomber Faisal […]

For six months, I have lived and worked near ground zero of the worst oil disaster in US history. I’ve traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. I watched tough, resourceful people of the bayou weep at the sight of the oily tide […]

On Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News analyst Juan Williams told Bill O’Reilly that he supported his statement that “Muslims killed us on 9/11,” and that he feels nervous when he sees Muslims on the same plane as him. (h/t Think Progress.)

From TheGrio: What would you do if your 5-year-old son decided he wanted to dress up like a girl or your 5-year-old daughter wanted to be a tomboy? It’s an issue that some parents may be grappling with as Halloween approaches. The Internet is still abuzz about how Dean and Cheryl Kilodavis responded when their […]

The NAACP has released a report which shows the connections between the Tea Party and hate groups, anti-semites and white supremacist groups. Here is the introduction: The result of this study contravenes many of the Tea Parties’ self-invented myths, particularly their supposedly sole concentration on budget deficits, taxes and the power of the federal government, […]

Baltimore officials say black male students are the main reason behind the city school system’s improvement in its graduation and dropout rates.

President Obama makes a direct appeal to African-Americans to vote Democrat on Election Day, in a new commercial airing on national radio shows and on stations reaching black communities in a handful of key midterm battleground states.

THORNWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Four Pace University football players were arrested, and one of them was stun-gunned, in the chaos after police fatally shot a teammate outside a suburban New York bar, officials said Tuesday. One of the teammates broke a storefront window, Mount Pleasant Police Chief Louis Alagno said. The other three wouldn’t move […]

Frustration—the economy is a mess, and no one seems to be getting much help. Anger, too—this has been going on for years, and the government keeps getting worse. Anti-corporatism. Disgust with special-interest influence in the political process. The Democrats are in power at every level, especially in New York, and nothing is changing. And in […]

The Gateway to Loudoun County and Dulles South blog writes about Washington D.C. area Public School’s teachers and administrators  who are “actually ‘friending’ students, past and present, on Facebook.”