Author Archive for Wendy Gittleson

As a child of an artist and a Vietnam war activist, I was born a liberal. Raised half in rural, upstate New York and half in Boulder, Colorado, I have a unique perspective on politics and on life. I now call the San Francisco Bay area home.

Cop Tases 14 Year Old Girl, When Her Hands Are Up (VIDEO)

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I don’t want to say that cops are out of control. I don’t want to say that they are treating American citizens as Abu Ghraib prisoners. I don’t want to say that because I don’t actually believe that. I still believe that the majority of police officers are in their jobs for the right reason, to Protect and to Serve the public. That being said, videos like this are hard to swallow, and we’ve seen far too many of them lately.

Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi Says Lowe’s Should Be Shut Down For Supporting Terrorism (VIDEO)

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Lowe’s Home Improvement Store has received a lot of flack for pulling advertisements on the show called, ‘All-American Muslim,’ which follows the lives of several real American citizens who, while they aren’t praying to Allah, go to school, do laundry, discuss marital problems, go to work, support the economy…you know, the things that you and I do.