William Foust, or Billy as he was known to his friends, was killed by a De facto policeman who was responding to a domestic violence call at about 6:00 PM on Sunday June 19th, which happened to be Father’s Day.
An eye witness says that Bill was a
It is with a heavy, heavy, broken heart that I write this press release this morning. My friend, Billy Foust, left this world yesterday evening for another. In a most tragic manner Bill was shot and killed by a Page, Arizona police officer in the dr
John Hospers, the distinguished philosopher and libertarian scholar and sometime political activist, has died at the age of 94. I met John only briefly, two or three times, but I was familiar with his well-reasoned and jargon-free works.
John Howard Wooldridge, dead at 51, may he rest in peace. Frosty, Rex, Howard, Linda and our mother Vivien bid John a fond farewell.May his transition into a new facet of the spirit carry him and his pursuits to limitless heights.
Everyone knows that big, mean animals can kill you. Most people with common sense try to avoid creatures with big teeth and claws and eyes that view humans as a potential next meal. Lions and sharks and bears and rhinos, slithering jungle snakes, cho
Just received this sad news. David Nolan,who along with eight others founded the Libertarian Party in his living room in Denver in 1971 has died. More information forthcoming as it becomes available. He also created the "Nolan Chart."
When the 85-year-old, touted as the godfather of Goa's hippie scene, died last week in a beachside village in Goa, the west coast Indian state he had helped put on the travel map for global backpackers and stoners had long since turned its back on hi
James, I was so pissed to read today on Freedom's Phoenix of your passing! I think I own every book, including your non-fiction reminiscing books, you ever wrote.
George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4.
Fifty-nine journalists have been killed because of their work in the first six months of this year, up from 53 for the same period last year, the Press Emblem Campaign said today.
Robert C. Byrd , the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, a fiery orator and hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to his beloved West Virginia, died Monday. He was 92.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
Former child actor Gary Coleman, known to millions as the star of hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," died in hospital on Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, CNN reported Friday.
A chilling Russian Space Forces (VKS) report prepared for Prime Minister Putin is warning today the United States is in the process of constructing at least 300 massive “death camps” in 11 of their Western States secret documents had previously revea
His concept sketches for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney’s The Black Hole, and iconic poster art for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, McCall’s visions of the final frontier were used by NASA and the Postal Service
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering fro
J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned died at 91. Salinger died of natural causes where he had lived for decades in self-imposed isol
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wedn
Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52.
Pittman suffered from heart-related
She was the head of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers' elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, retired spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumph
The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to 'death panels' for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The provision allows M
PHOENIX — Stun-gun maker Taser International has started telling police agencies to avoid firing the devices at suspects' chests, explaining that there's an "extremely low" risk of ill effects on the heart and that doing so will make defending lawsui
When Tasers first came out they were billed as a non-lethal alternative to firearms.
In reality, both parts of that claim were false. People have died from Taser shocks, and far from being an "alternative" to firearms, most police Taser discharges
BOSTON (Reuters) - James McDonald, a prominent adviser to wealthy families as chief executive of investment management group Rockefeller & Co, died in an apparent suicide
Patrick Swayze, the gracefully macho Texan who swiveled his way to movie stardom in 1987's Dirty Dancing, died Monday at the age 57 after waging a valiant public battle against pancreatic cancer.
"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with f
The best thing about Kennedy's death is it has slowed the Jackson lies on TV.
Only the sheep, lemmings and politicians believe that a government can continue to spend or buy its way out of a depression with cash that it prints.Contrary t
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's body and members of his family will travel for
at least two hours from his Cape Cod home to Boston, where he will lie
in repose for two days before his funeral at the Arlington National
Cemetery in Virginia.
Having lived 40 years longer then his victim Mary Jo Kopechne - Fat TED is at long last DEAD!
Forty years ago July 18, 1969, a likely drunk Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a Chappaquiddick Island bridge with 28-year old Mary Jo Kopechne in the passenger seat next to him. More than nine hours later, after sleeping it off in his hotel, Kennedy reported the accident at the nearby police station and divers soon pulled Kopechne’s lifeless body from the 8-foot deep pond.
At the age of 92 and responsible for steering the entire planet (especially the North American part) into any direction he was told; "Uncle Walter" finally gives up the ghost! As a 'journalist', or rather government-owned mouth piece he was extrodinarilly gifted at convincing the populace that whatever he said, was fact. This was usually supported by partial truth (BEFORE THE INTERNET) and was stamped with his "and that's the way that it is" signature sign off.