Stephen C. Webster

Ultra right-wing radio talk show host Hal Turner provided intelligence to the FBI that agents considered “irreplaceable,” according to emails reviewed for a lengthy investigative report published Sunday.
Writing for NorthJersey.com, reporters Mike Kelly and Peter J. Sampson reveal that the bureau once even used Turner as an undercover intelligence operative in Brazil, where he informed [...]

It’s amazing, the standards of “newsworthiness” exhibited by some outlets.
When Rep. Alan Grayson called a female lobbyist a “K-Street whore,” Fox News went into overdrive, smelling blood in the water.
But when one of their own drops a prostitution analogy in reference to a female lawmaker, not a word of criticism eeks out.
Take, [...]

What if you could cure cancer by getting a small, circular disk implanted into your arm? Or perhaps instead of undergoing months of soul-wrenching chemotherapy, say one dose of magnetized nanoparticles were able to wipe out your tumors?
That’s what scientists are working on and according to two new studies published at the end of November, [...]

The African nation of Uganda is weighing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive men who have committed what it calls “aggravated homosexuality.”
As if that were not shocking enough, a U.S. author is claiming that a secretive group of American politicians appear to be a driving force in seeing the proposal [...]

Longtime GOP strategist Mary Matalin thinks that maybe a “purity test” for Republican candidates is a good thing. And at least one of her counterparts in the Democratic party agrees.
Appearing on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Friday, Matalin suggested that a “purity test” would not exclude moderate Republicans but instead grow the GOP.
Such a test [...]