earlier this month, you may have heard about him for a different reason. while accepting the george polke award he criticized some of the work that appeared in the french magazine charlie hebdo. they were victims of a terror attack in january this year. he said the cartoons wandered into the realm of hate speech. i started asking him about those comments and whether as some critics alleged about him, he felt the victims were to blame for the tragedy. oh, not at all. i think perhaps i should have made it clear i was as outraged as the rest of the world at the time. i mourn them deeply. we are a very small fraternity of political cartoonists around the globe. i created a tribute page to them on a sunday section in which i
the way has an excellent safety record. as more details of the crash come in tamron condolences surfacing online an outpouring of facebook tribute page mostly in german made in tribute to victims. thank you very much. got this in german official says a high school group was on that crashed plane. spanish school says 16 students involved. german official saying a high school group was on that crashed plane. spanish school says 16 students involved. i want to bring in daily beast contributor specializing in aviation, clive irving author of wide body and retired captain tom bun, 40 experience flying commercial and military planes. we were talking in commercial break about protocol if a plane was in trouble in this particular area what a pilot would likely do. yes. if you had a problem with
assailant lured her into a mall bathroom and repeatedly stabbed her simply because she was an american. her family want her remembered as a kind teacher who worked with special needs kids. on her facebook tribute page, the family say simply, she made the world a better place. she would never hurt anybody ever. she had a bubbly personality, always positive, optimistic. about life. your ex-wife was targeted for no reason whatsoever other than she was an american? other than she was a westerner, i would say. this lady, i shouldn t even call her a lady, this monster of a person was lying in wait for her. someone like her to come along for an hour in the bathroom. unfortunately, it was my kids mother. the twin boys were with her
need a feel good fix? check out these stories making us smile today. 80-year-old grandma betty is stealing hearts thanks to her teenage great grandson zack. after betty was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier this year, zack created a tribute page to try to help her lift her spirits and it has done just the trick for betty and now 280,000 followers. zack says that she still wakes up every morning asking how many friends she has. a fan favorite, a video of her swinging to the hit song happy, very fitting. and this intrepid little girl is being hailed a hero for rescuing a puppy near ft. worth, texas. 7-year-old animal lover nina didn t think twice before crawling her way to the 10-day-old australian shepherd mix. the puppy is the only one to survive in a litter of 10. well-done, nina. i think she was excited to see me and save her. if i can impart one lesson to a
son martin has died from injuries sustained in the attack on boston. my wife and daughter are both recovering from serious injuries. we thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met for their thoughts and prayers. the mother, she sustained a serious head injury and we understand she went through brain surgery last night. the little girl reportedly lost a leg. the father is a director of a local community group, really beloved in that area and obviously asked people for their prayers as well as privacy. we learned later today the second of the three people killed, 29-year-old krystle campbell, she was a local restaurant manager, had gone to the race with her best friend to cheer on another friend who was running. her father absolutely devastated and understandably so, and some friends who put together a tribute page said krystle