Author: Joshua De Leon

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking on the private prison industry by proposing a bill that will outlaw private prisons, reported Salon. “We want to deal with minimum sentencing,” said Sanders at a rally in Reno, Nevada. “Too many lives have been destroyed for non-violent issues. People that are sent to jail have police records. We have got to change that. Our job is to keep people out of jail, not in jail.” America leads the world most people in prison per capita, and criminal justice reform has emerged as a major talking point in the Democratic...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton violated government policies regarding her email use, according to a federal judge. Clinton used a private server for her government email account while working as secretary of state. “We wouldn’t be here today if the employee had followed government policy,” said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. The judge made the statement during a hearing on Thursday for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department. Sullivan noted that Clinton’s server and thumb drive will be implicated in several suits related to the Clinton email scandal. The State Department was ordered by...

Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’ kingpin of fearful rhetoric, is continuing to use his massive platform to spread further poor people-hating oratory to his conservative viewership. Crime is on the rise, according to O’Reilly, and it’s the fault of liberal politicians and poor people. “It is horrifying to watch as the violent crime rate is skyrocketing in some places run by liberal politicians,” said O’Reilly. “That’s because many on the left do not want to punish people, especially the poor, who commit...