Archive for the 'Pictures' Category

Criminology and White Collar Crime: When Rich White Guys Get Greedy

By Greg Voakes | Related entries in Business, Ethics, Pictures

White-collar crime is quite an incredible industry – millions of dollars disappear each year to offshore bank accounts, hookers, drugs, and yachts because rich executives (generally rich white guys) aren’t satisfied with their Porsches. White-collar crime finally got some serious attention when corruption single-handedly destroyed the lives of four thousand Enron employees at the start [...]

August 29th, 2011 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Pentagon Changes Policy on Media Photos of War Dead

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Media, Pictures, War

The Department of Defense has altered the policy concerning the photography of America’s returning war dead. Now, news organizations will be allowed to photograph and disseminate photos of flag-draped coffins — as long as the families of the fallen soldiers give permission. While the no-photographs policy has been in place since 1991, the issue became [...]

February 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Revisiting Drudge, Hillary & Obama’s Turban Photo

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Internet, Media, Pictures

As decidedly anti-Clinton as he is, Sully still makes a sage observation today: He’s about scoops, and gets them. But once you realize that the Clintons’ tax returns and the Olympics ceremony boycott stories came from the Clinton camp, do you still believe that photo of Obama in a turban fell off a turnip truck? [...]

April 7th, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Obama Camp’s Hacky Wright/Clinton Photo Leak

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Hillary, Partisan Nonsense, Pictures, Race

This is really amateur hour. The Obama campaign gave this photo to news outlets for what reason? To show that President Clinton meets people? All this will ultimately end up doing is remind people that Obama was a member of Wright’s church for over 20 years, and that Bill Clinton met the man for a [...]

March 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

1000 Words

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 1000 Words, Pictures

I’m changing the “Pics of the Week” section in the footer to “1000 Words.” I think it has a nicer ring to it and I’m going to be highlighting a new pic each day and sharing the story behind it. Today we have the story of Kenneth Foster, a death row inmate in Texas who [...]

September 4th, 2007 | Permalink| No Comments »

Pics Of The Week

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Pictures

As always, at the bottom of the page, courtesy of TheNewsRoom. By the way, full disclosure, I’ve become a brand ambassador for TheNewsRoom which means I’m actively writing and educating our community about their product and its benefits. This isn’t a paid position, but I do get double points in their rewards program called NewsPerks. [...]

August 27th, 2007 | Permalink| No Comments »

Semper f-Eye

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Iraq, Pictures

Nicholas Popaditch lost his eye in Iraq…so we rebuilt him.

August 20th, 2007 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Pics Of The Week

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Pictures

Yes, that’s a bionic hand peeling a banana, and it could mean a lot more freedom for our soldiers who’ve lost their appendages in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can see more pics at the bottom of the page. Courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

August 20th, 2007 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Pics Of The Week

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Pictures

As always, they’re at the bottom of the page. Courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

August 13th, 2007 | Permalink| No Comments »

New Pics Of The Week

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Pictures

Located at the bottom of the page… Unfortunate Update: Note the ad that got served up with one of the 1-35 bridge collapse pictures, in particular the lines “You’ll Be Surprised” & “Jump In.” This doesn’t happen every time because a different ad gets served up, but when it does…yikes.

August 2nd, 2007 | Permalink| No Comments »