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Stories by Chris Nolan

Queens Pickpocket Gets 15-to-Life for $22 Theft

Lindsay Beyerstein: The judge was willing to play along, even though the pickpocket had no history of violence.
Posted on Nov 24, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Union Activists Uncover American Crucifixes Made in Chinese Sweatshops

Lindsay Beyerstein: The National Labor Committee held a press conference in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral to call attention to the conditions.
Posted on Nov 21, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Senior Intelligence Official Wants Americans to Redefine, Expect Less Privacy

Lindsay Beyerstein: This is the worst argument I've heard in a long time.
Posted on Nov 13, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Clinton Campaign Caught Planting Questions at Iowa Town Meetings

Lindsay Beyerstein: These covert attempts to feed canned questions to audiences differs only in degree from last month's infamous staged FEMA press conference.
Posted on Nov 12, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Homeland Security Employee Wore "Blackface" Costume At Work All Day

Lindsay Beyerstein: Assistant Secretary Julie Myers infamously awarded the costume a "most original" prize.
Posted on Nov 10, 2007, Source: Majikthise

What's At Stake In The Writer's Guild Strike

Lindsay Beyerstein: The Alliance of Television & Motion Picture Producers' position is illogical, greedy and unfair.
Posted on Nov 5, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Giuliani Brags About Using "Intensive" Interrogation Techniques As a Prosecutor

Lindsay Beyerstein: Maybe Giuliani should have asked a few more questions of his buddy Bernard Kerik.
Posted on Nov 5, 2007, Source: Majikthise

Fake CNN Website Tries to Frame Hispanic Group for Wildfires

Lindsay Beyerstein: Anti -immigrant websites cited the story as fact, without noticing or caring that the url was a dead giveaway.
Posted on Oct 29, 2007

Attorney General Nominee Mukasey Refuses to Call Waterboarding Torture

Lindsay Beyerstein: Anything that simulates drowning has got to be torture.
Posted on Oct 19, 2007

Bush Defends Genocide of Armenians, Calls It "Historic Mass Killings"

Lindsay Beyerstein: If Turkey is going to abandon us over the symbolic recognition of a 92-year-old historical fact, I'm not sure they are such a valuable ally.
Posted on Oct 11, 2007

Federal Agent Indicted for Cyberstalking Ex-Girlfriend With Homeland Security Database

Lindsay Beyerstein: A Dept. of Commerce agent accessed the system 163 times to track the travel of his ex and her family.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007

Atheist Soldier Sues Military for Discrimination

Lindsay Beyerstein: Spec. Hall's superiors prevented him from holding a meeting for atheists and other non-Christians.
Posted on Sep 19, 2007

Jose Padilla: Imprisoned Nearly Four Years Without a Lawyer, Convicted on Terrorism Charges

Lindsay Beyerstein: By destroying Padilla, the government cheated us all out of justice.
Posted on Aug 16, 2007

Runaway escalation in Iraq

Lindsay Beyerstein: President Bush secretly plans to have more US troops than ever before in Iraq by the end of the year.
Posted on May 23, 2007

Dr. Laura's Son a Sicko?

Lindsay Beyerstein:The soldier son of homophobic talk radio host Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called "repulsive."
Posted on May 22, 2007

Bush's former point man on family planning is a fraud

Lindsay Beyerstein: The anti-abortion, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs is accused of lying about his background. What did Bush know and when did he know it?
Posted on May 16, 2007

Florida to let felons vote

Lindsay Beyerstein: More than any other state... mostly black.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007

Updated: Girls Gone Wild creator ordered to jail

Lindsay Beyerstein: Sleazeball can't keep his mouth shut...
Posted on Apr 9, 2007

NYPD Spied on Republican Convention protesters

Lindsay Beyerstein: With no cause, to no good effect...
Posted on Mar 26, 2007

12-Year-Olds at Gitmo

Lindsay Beyerstein: "An interview with the US army chaplain wrongfully accused of spying at Guantanamo Bay."
Posted on Mar 11, 2007

John Edwards' "Second Life" headquarters defaced

Lindsay Beyerstein: Virtual vandals slap blackface, excrement on candidate's virtual campaign office.
Posted on Mar 2, 2007

How the Bush administration "guides" regulators over cliffs

Lindsay Beyerstein: Another layer of apparatchiks assigned to government bureaucracies.
Posted on Mar 2, 2007

Katrina survivors to rebuke Bush in New Orleans

Lindsay Beyerstein: Residents call for federal aid, not photo ops.
Posted on Mar 1, 2007

Major right wing blogger calls for murder of Iranian scientists

Lindsay Beyerstein: Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds advocates terrorism.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007

Porno popup case makes national news

The Associated Press and the New York Times pick up the Julie Amero story.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007

Tucker Carlson: Obama's Black church isn't really Christian [VIDEO]

Carlson bears false witness against his neighbor.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007

Elizabeth Edwards pwns Chris Matthews [VIDEO]

Sexist digs backfire bigtime for MSNBC host.
Posted on Feb 5, 2007

Security pros enter porn popup case

Experts probe the corrupted computer that could send a teacher to jail.
Posted on Feb 4, 2007

Dick Cheney invents a fourth branch of government

The imperial vice presidency...
Posted on Feb 4, 2007

Bush's erratic bulldozer driving nearly flattens press

Ill-conceived joyride at Peoria plant sends reporters scattering.
Posted on Feb 1, 2007

"Girls Gone Wild" mogul's own sex tape up for grabs

He & Paris Hilton have "pit-bull legal team."
Posted on Jan 29, 2007

Diebold voting machine key copied from pic on Diebold website

Or, unlock the vote with a mini bar key.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007

Could you be framed by your computer?

The latest on the CT teacher facing up to 40 years for porno popups in class.
Posted on Jan 24, 2007

Motherhood identity politics

Should female politicians brand themselves as moms?
Posted on Jan 19, 2007

Correction: U.S. raided Iran's proto consulate in Iraq, regional war postponed

Semantics save the day.
Posted on Jan 12, 2007

CIA blocking Duke Cunningham investigation

Spy agency still spooked by Hookergate scandal.
Posted on Jan 9, 2007

John McCain hires DeLay crony to run his campaign

Republican presidential hopeful outdoes his Falwell flip-flop
Posted on Dec 8, 2006

Lindsay Lohan says Al Gore will help her win war with press

"Al Gore will help me," writes starlet in email.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006

Discovery Channel sells cool science toys for boys, crafty crap for girls

TV show merch perpetuates sexist stereotypes.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006

George Bush, Sr. bursts into tears in public [VIDEO]

Former president sobs as Jeb leaves the Governor's office.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006

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