After apparently shooting his wife with a 12 gauge shotgun, Thomas Jarboe called 911 to explain what happened. “She has been abusing me, she is my caretaker, and is completely destroying me,” Jarboe said to the dispatcher, according to court documents first reported by KOMO News. “She hates all my kids, my kids all hate her.” The 75-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Washington said he was acting in “self-defense” when he shot Kay Sew, who was 63. Jarboe suffers from advanced Parkinson’s disease and amnesia, and a neighbor told KOMO News those illnesses often led to fights between the […]
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If you think same-sex marriage isn’t in danger of being overturned, Justice Clarence Thomas would like you to think again. Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, today published a blistering attack on the Supreme Court’s landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which struck down state bans on same-sex marriage in 2015, arguing that it should be overturned. Thomas’s opinion is not a court decision, and has no legal impact. My husband and I are still legally married, and our daughter has not yet been taken away from us. But Thomas’s screed is a terrifying warning for the millions of LGBTQ Americans […]
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued a broadside against the high court’s 2015 gay marriage decision on Monday when the court declined to hear a case brought by a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue a marriage license for same-sex couples. The two justices agreed with the decision not to hear the case, but used the occasion to take a legal baseball bat to the court’s 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee to equal protection of the law. Writing for himself and […]
Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides” of debate in Harper’s Magazine. Thomas Chatterton Williams hide caption toggle caption Thomas Chatterton Williams Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides” of debate in Harper’s Magazine. Thomas Chatterton Williams Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 prominent journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying what it called the “intolerant climate that has set […]
A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson wants the Washington, D.C., memorial to America’s third president ripped down because he “owned more than 600 slaves.” Lucian K Truscott IV penned an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times in which he noted that while Jefferson’s motto was “all men are created equal,” he “never did much to make those words come true.” “The memorial is a shrine to a man who during his lifetime owned more than 600 slaves and had at least six children with one of them, Sally Hemings,” Truscott wrote. “Upon his death, he did not free […]
Recently an editor at the website Jezebel titled her essay on quarantine reading “You Don’t Have to Read Gravity’s Rainbow During Self-Isolation.” She instead recommended “trash” or books one had read as a child. Others in lit biz were quick to recommend Camus’ The Plague, and a recent piece in The New York Times suggested Moby-Dick, mostly for its finale of nature—the White Whale—exacting revenge on Ahab and the rest of the humans (except for Ishmael) on the Pequod. Depending on how long the pandemic lasts, I, too, would recommend Moby-Dick—as a precursor of and as a warm-up for Thomas Pynchon’s […]
Commie Mayor Bill De Blasio appointed his communist wife Chirlane McCray to head up a commission to reevaluate historical narratives and markers in New York City. In one of her last “jobs” in New York City McCray managed to lose track of $850 million. So she must look forward to the new challenge. Bill told reporters this week they will look at the Thomas Jefferson statue inside City Hall that has been there inside the building since 1834.Jefferson is also the founder of the Democrat Party — which seems to get lost in the current conversation. TRENDING: SHOCKING! Susan Rice Quotes […]
A group of demonstrators in Portland has torn down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a school bearing his name, fanning the flames of a growing cultural divide in the US as activists target landmarks deemed racist. Around 1,000 people gathered at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon on Sunday to listen to speeches before setting off on a Black Lives Matter march across the city. Later in the evening, a crowd reconvened at the school and set their sights on a statue of the third US president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Two ropes were […]
One of the four Minneapolis police officers charged for the killing of George Floyd has been released from custody after making bail, which had been conditionally set at $750,000. Former officer Thomas Lane was released from the Hennepin County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported, citing jail records. Lane is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter in relation to Floyd’s death in late May, who was killed after fellow officer Derek Chauvin pressed a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, has said the case against his client is “weak,” arguing […]
The three other Minneapolis cops involved in the police killing of George Floyd—an unarmed black man who was filmed repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe while an officer held his knee on his neck for several minutes—are being charged in his death. The Star Tribune reports that the three officers —Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng—will be charged by Attorney General Keith Ellison with aiding and abetting murder. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) also announced on Twitter that Ellison is upgrading charges against Derek Chauvin, who held his knee on Floyd neck for almost nine minutes, to second-degree murder. Chauvin was […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has acknowledged that the Tokyo Games would have to be cancelled if Covid-19 remains a threat next year The high-ranking official admitted that it’s impossible to constantly reschedule all major sports events and keep athletes, sports federations and thousands of employees in a state of uncertainty. READ MORE: The show must go on: IOC says delayed Tokyo Olympics going ahead in 2021 is NOT dependent on Covid-19 vaccine “Quite frankly, I have some understanding for this, because you can’t forever employ 3,000 or 5,000 people in an organizing committee,” Bach told the BBC. “You […]