TV News LIES

William Koch lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a former employee alleging the billionaire energy- company executive held him captive at a Colorado ranch.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco rejected Koch’s claims that he didn’t direct the actions that triggered Kirby Martensen’s claim of false imprisonment. Though Martensen’s complaint doesn’t say Koch “directly participated in the false imprisonment, it includes facts that support an inference that the persons who did” were acting as Koch’s agents, Corley wrote in her ruling today.

Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman told a court in Florida on Tuesday he would wait until his June trial to argue that he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last year.

Prosecutors say Zimmerman, 29, profiled and confronted the 17-year-old Martin before shooting him in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012, despite a police dispatcher instructing him not to give chase.

Thousands of unmanned aircraft systems – commonly known as drones – could be buzzing around in U.S. airspace by 2015 because of a law passed last year, aiding in police investigations, scientific research and border control, but also raising safety and privacy concerns among some lawmakers and advocacy groups.

Already, drones are in use to count sea lions in Alaska, to conduct weather and environmental research and to monitor drug trafficking across our borders. In fact, 327 drones already have been licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly over U.S. soil.

Jason Collins, a veteran center in the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced on Monday that he was gay, breaking one of the final frontiers in U.S. sports and society.

Collins became the first active player from any of the four major U.S. men's professional sports leagues to publicly reveal his homosexuality.

He did so in a first-person account published in Sports Illustrated, saying he had gradually become frustrated with having to keep silent on gay issues. The Boston Marathon bombings this month had convinced him not to wait any more for a perfect moment to come out, he wrote.

News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee.

When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, the president of the Board of SF Pride, Lisa L Williams, quickly capitulated, issuing a cowardly, imperious statement that has to be read to be believed.

The Tennessee Firearms Association is raffling off one AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the same weapon used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown.

According to the promotion, “TFA is giving away a BUSHMASTER AR15 to advance the effort to resist Barack Obama, the federal government and even a few in Tennessee state government who are determined to destroy your 2nd Amendment rights!!”