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by Gary Schoichet A GRAND JURY ON STATEN ISLAND saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil as it declined to indict a police officer who put 43-year-old Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold that caused his death. Mr. Garner’s crime was selling loose cigarettes. The video of the arrest, including the choke […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet THREE SHOPPERS WERE KILLED, trampled to death, in a rush to the sock section of the Valley Stream, New York Walmart on Black Friday. “It’s really hard to imagine such a rush for socks,” Walmart CEO C. Douglas McMillon told Blinding Light News Service when informed of the tragedy. “Computers, televisions, iPads, […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet Shortly after Election Day, Blinding Light News Flash scored an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama. The president let his lack of hair down… SO SOME OF THE DISASTER of the midterm elections was my fault. I could be more of a back-slapper and back room guy. I could have channeled Lyndon […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet “YOU KNOW WHAT OUR PROBLEM IS?” stated Ian Read, CEO of Pfizer, in a sit-down with Blinding Light News Service (BLNS) yesterday. “Our problem is we can’t make any money in Africa with a drug that will cure Ebola. Even Europe is problematical — but give us Ebola in the United States and […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet “ICE,” wrote the legendary U.S. marshall and newspaper reporter Bat Masterson, “the rich have it in summer; the poor have it in winter.”* “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” said Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, in a recent interview with the Blinding Light News Flash Service, “but the power it gives you does. […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet “IT’S A NICE PLACE TO VISIT but an even greater place to live and work!” proclaimed the signs in block letters surrounding Grand Canyon National Park as Donald Trump announced plans to build residential and office condominiums on the floor of the canyon, on a platform over the Colorado River. Reacting to […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet New York Congressional Representative Peter King (R-NY) told the Blinding Light News Flash Service (BLNFS) on Monday that “granting overstock military equipment to states and cities is what we are about in America: the militarization of our police forces to combat terrorism both foreign and domestic.” In New York City, he noted, […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet WITH MORE THAN 60,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the borders of the United States in Arizona, California, and Texas, congressional representatives and senators of all stripes have been calling for the expulsion, and quickly, of these refugees from gang violence and other dangers coming from the Central American democracies of Honduras, Guatemala, and […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet IN AN ANNOUNCEMENT that shocked the worldwide auto industry, General Motors Chief Operating Officer Mary T. Barra, the first female CEO of GM or any major auto maker, announced that she was getting a tattoo with the words, “Kick Me,” and that GM would recall all its cars going back to 1955 […]
Read Moreby Gary Schoichet Five men who love their mothers have decided that companies that are for-profit do not have to follow the provisions of the Affordable Care Act if doing so conflicts with their owners’ religious convictions. Five of the six Roman Catholics on the U.S. Supreme Court must actually be Jewish and see the […]
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