Sarah Palin’s Parents: We Sleep With Guns After Death Threats
Filed under: Sarah Palin, 2012 President, 2012 ElectionsIn an interview with BBC News, Chuck Heath said a man recently sent he and his wife photocopies of a receipt for a gun he bought, along with with a photocopy of a one-way ticket to Alaska. Pe...
FBI File Reveals Ted Kennedy Received Death Threats
Filed under: Ted Kennedy2,000 pages of new files show that the late senator received death threats over several decades. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Arrest made after death threats to Nancy Pelosi
Of course the Republican-led rhetoric of violence during the debate on health care reform had nothing to do with this:
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press the FBI has arrested a northern California man for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform ...
Several...
FBI Charges Washington Man Over Murray Death Threats
The violent rhetoric of the Tea Party movement in Washington State has escalated from stupid to very serious:
An FBI agent's probable cause statement says Murray's office in Seattle reported the threats, which were left on voice mail from a blocked telephone number. Agents say they traced the calls to Wilson's...
Vilified ‘Climategate’ Scientist Says He Considered Suicide
Filed under: Environment
Phil Jones, the British scientist at the center of a worldwide scandal over e-mails appearing to show climate scientists manipulating global warming data, says he considered killing himself "several times" during the crisis, the Times of London reports."I am just a scientist," Jones said. "I have no...
Alabama Teacher Uses Shooting Obama as Example in Geometry Class
Filed under: Education, Conservatives
The teacher thought the perfect way to illustrate lines and angles was to explain where an assassin would aim to shoot the president.
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Public Says All Share Blame for Outbreak of Political Threats, Vandalism
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Health Care, Polls, Poll Watch