Tag: Jones

A friend sent me the link to The Daily Show with Leslie Jones’ take on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Boston Common. I clicked play. I listened. I even laughed, uncomfortably, at the disgust Ms. Jones’ displays. Yet before the segment played out, my levity turned sour. I...

You may choose a banking system wherein a central bank “buys” securities, big banks get first crack at new money created at the most favorable rates, more money feeds oligarchs who are first to the trough as beneficiaries of regulatory capture, funding wars that slaughter millions while ...

Last week, Alex Jones, founder of far-right news website Infowars, was ordered by a jury to pay $49.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages and to one of the parents of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre. The parent, Neil Heslin, sued Jones for defamation for accusing ...

The GOP-controlled Tennessee House voted late Thursday to expel two of the “Tennessee 3.” That trio of Democratic lawmakers had committed the transgression of presiding over protests at the capital — with one wielding a bullhorn — demanding action on guns after the horrific m...

Everyone loves Indiana Jones. The crackle of the whip, the catchy tune, the scrapes with death, it all provides for what some might argue is the best movie-watching experience there is. But did you know that Indiana Jones is actually based off a real person? What if I told you that the world o...