For at least six years, a well-known and respected certified public accountant 鈥� a man whose firm has audited many of Idaho鈥檚 public schools and government bodies 鈥� has led a secret life as a neo-Nazi. Timothy Stephen Folke now says his activism was part of a bizarre research project, but his family has not accepted that claim.
A new study of LGBT families is being trumpeted by anti-gay groups. But an expert appointed to review it says it was fatally flawed and calls its author 鈥渄isgraced.鈥�
The four murders carried out by the Boston Marathon bombers were a tragedy. But now Muslims in America are bracing for backlash.
Something strange is happening in Short Creek, the desert home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
The anti-Muslim hate parade continued its shameful march across the country in recent months. Six days before Christmas, Randolph Linn, 52, of St. Joe, Ind., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to setting fire to a mosque outside of Toledo, Ohio, on Sept. 30 after driving nearly two hours from his Indiana home 鈥渢o get some payback鈥� for Americans who had been killed, according to The Blade newspaper.
What鈥檚 in a name? For the American Third Position (A3P), the only white nationalist political party in the United States, apparently some sleight of hand.
In the months leading up to his trial on federal tax crimes, James Timothy Turner, the head of the largest antigovernment 鈥渟overeign citizens鈥� group in the country, boasted that he knew 鈥渢ruths鈥� about the federal government and history that would set him free.
If misery loves company, so does wacky, at least when it comes to America鈥檚 elected officials and some of the laws they think up and sometimes even pass. Take the City Council of little Nelson, Ga., home to 1,300 souls about 50 miles north of Atlanta.
In another act of violence attributed to the antigovernment 鈥渟overeign citizens鈥� movement, a Florida man accused of printing his own currency and defying the courts was shot and killed after a four-hour standoff with police.
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