This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 25, 2015
Officials in Hope, Ark. are investigating the blaze, which broke out at about 3:20 a.m. Friday, CBS News reports. The building, where the 42nd president spent the first four years of his life, is a designated National Historic Site.
Source: NYT
Dec 24, 2015
Buried in the omnibus spending bill signed into law last week are provisions to give each of the former hostages or their estates up to $4.4 million.
Source: TPM
Dec 23, 2015
"The problem with the Confederate flag isn't the Confederacy, the problem with the Confederate flag is what it began to represent later," Bush said while on a campaign stop.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 22, 2015
by Joe Perry
While some Germans did resist the heavy-handed, politicized appropriation of Germany’s favorite holiday, many actually embraced a Nazified holiday that evoked the family’s place in the “racial state,” free of Jews and other outsiders.
Source: The Telegraph
Dec 22, 2015
The students of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign explain why Oxford University must not elevate this murderous land-grabbing racist
Source: New Historian
Dec 22, 2015
The site of a Spanish colony established by Don Tristan de Luna in August of 1559 has been confirmed to be in Pensacola, Florida.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 22, 2015
According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority "Air Power" Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
Source: Inside Higher ED
Dec 21, 2015
The University of California at Los Angeles last week condemned an anti-Semitic comment that a UCLA student posted on the Facebook page of Mayim Bialik, the actress.
Source: RealClearPolitics
Dec 21, 2015
Love him or hate him, the man is not idle and his second term never was plagued by atrophy, let alone scandal.
Source: Iraq Crisis/Ihsan Fethi, PhD Iraqi Architects Society
Dec 21, 2015
There are reliable reports that armed groups from ISIS have begun a determined and systematic campaign to destroy all grave stones in all the cemeteries of the city.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Dec 21, 2015
Minority students have been pushing the college to remove the plaque and also a statue of Rhodes.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 20, 2015
Carvings on the wall of the tomb of Maia, the boy king’s wet nurse, have led archaeologists to suspect she may have been his sister Meritaten
Source: Common Dreams
Dec 19, 2015
Newly released 1,700-page FBI file shows the US government 'went to lengths' to track beloved folk icon
Source: NYT
Dec 19, 2015
The suit was filed by three preservation organizations and a New Orleans chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Source: Haaretz
Dec 18, 2015
Recently discovered medical report from Landsberg Prison, where Hitler was imprisoned in 1923, records undescended right testicle.
Source: Buzzfeed
Dec 18, 2015
A leader of the Black Lives Matter movement noticed the measure, but congressional aides and lawmakers from both parties either had no idea it was in there or were unable to explain why it’s still included.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Dec 18, 2015
While advocating against what they said is a growing trend in anti-Muslim rhetoric, the professor and students wore Jewish stars inscribed with the word, “Muslim.”
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 17, 2015
A Muslim teacher is suing her former school district and claims she was fired after administrators allegedly banned her from mentioning Islam.
Source: NYT
Dec 17, 2015
The position Prime Minister David Cameron faces as he enters talks in Brussels is similar to the situation in 1974, when Britons last had a chance to vote on their European destiny.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Dec 16, 2015
The former secretary of state will receive the 2016 Harry S. Truman Legacy of Leadership Award during the institute’s annual “Wild About Harry” fundraiser on April 7.
