Mich. police clears inmate in death threats against Lansing official

The Michigan State Police have concluded their investigation of threats allegedly made by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon against Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood and an Ingham County Prosecutor and concluded that they were harmless.

Shanon Banner, spokesperson for the Michigan State Police issued the following statement on the case More…

Elected officials in Michigan targeted with death threats from prisoner

Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor.

Conservatives Attack ‘Double Standard’ on Health Care Threats

Brendan Steinhauser, the director of campaigns for FreedomWorks, helped put together two days of rallies against health care legislation on Capitol Hill. Much of the coverage of those rallies focused on alleged incidents of racial and sexual slurs against Democratic members of Congress who were walking into the building for More…

[UPDATED] ‘Death to Obama’ Sign Pops Up at Cardin Town Hall

There have been some pretty nasty banners waved around by the town hall crowds protesting the Democrats’ health overhaul plans in recent days, but none reaches the level of that held up today in Hagerstown, Md., where Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sought to sell the reform strategy for More…

Court Order To Release Controversial Yemeni Snitch Could Cause More Problems at Gitmo

A Guantanamo Bay detainee who The Washington Post recently outed as a widely used but unreliable informant on his fellow prisoners won a court order for his release on Monday.

“In dozens of interviews over several years at the U.S. military prison — where he was rewarded with More…