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Tyler Smith, the high school football player who allegedly raped two girls in the last two years, was not suspended from school or the football team, reported Crooks and Liars. In fact, they outright refused to do so. The Hoquiam School District, Hoquiam High School, and the Hoquiam High School football head coach didn’t think they had to suspend Smith. Superintendent Mike Parker even supported the coach’s decision to allow Smith to keep playing. “We felt that he’s innocent until proven guilty,” said Parker. “As bad as the crime might be, as repulsive as the crime might be, we’re...

Conservative mouthpieces and lawmakers have been frantically shouting about the lack of centralized control needed to lead fight the Ebola outbreak. Right-wingers seem to forget that Republican lawmakers blocked an Obama-selected Surgeon General nominee, reported ThinkProgress. GOP obstruction is now killing people. President Obama nominated Dr. Vivek Murthy for U.S. Surgeon General last November. However, because Murthy was outspoken about how he intelligently considered the American gun problem to be a health issue, the conservatives blocked his nomination, locking in the incumbent, Boris D. Lushniak. Although Murthy told a Senate committee that he wouldn’t use his position as Surgeon General...

With Joe Biden’s extensive history of gaffes, the vice president’s unsparingly candid speech targeted the Tea Party this week, reported Talking Points Memo. During a closed-doors meeting yesterday, Biden said that the Tea Party was “crazy” and that its adherents have “no judgement.” Someone in attendance provided a “detailed readout” of what Biden said, TPM reported. “This is not your father’s Republican Party,” said Biden. “This is a different breed of cat, man. I am not making a moral judgement, but I will tell you that they have no judgement.” “If they win again, we are going to get...

It’s been about a year since Condoleezza Rice was hired to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, the body that will decide which four teams will play for the National Champion game in January. Granted, the Bowl Championship Series was an atrocious system, but the committee, who thought it reasonable to hire Rice, will probably be just as ridiculous. Mainly because it hired Rice. Knowledgable about the game though she may be, that doesn’t excuse Rice from the wake of questionable foreign policy decisions she left behind. Let’s not forget that Rice was National Security Advisor and the U.S....

Florida State University’s Board of Trustees recently selected a new president, Raw Story reported, going the controversial, political route by choosing Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign chairman, despite protests by angry students. John Thrasher, 70, a die-hard conservative and former Florida Republican party leader, has no background in education whatsoever. On record, he will be the only public university president in Florida without a doctorate. He was chosen over three other highly qualified finalists, all of whom would have lead FSU by experience rather than with radical political interests. Thrasher, like Gov. Scott, refuses to admit that climate change is a...