FOX News: MIDLAND, Texas — An embarrassed Sheriff Gary Painter fired one Midland County deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle. Round Rock officers were dispatched to the restaurant after someone reported the waitress with the weapon, [...]
The Boston Channel: BOSTON — Political blogs are abuzz with a rumor that former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is moving to Rhode Island. The rumor was first reported Saturday by the Anchorage Daily News, which said the gossip is that Palin has “finally decided†what she is going to do with [...]
US President Barack Obama on Friday was to kick off the first week-long vacation of his presidency, but global economic woes, violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and his troubled health care reform push could spoil any down time at the beach. Obama, who also faces drooping job approval ratings, was to take off for the [...]
Huh?! First off, if your cops are so crooked, making legal what they arrest others for is definitely NOT the solution. Why don’t you try empowering people who aren’t scumbags? Secondly, if drug use is so relevant in Mexico that enough people are using drugs like cocaine and heroin, maybe you should crack down further [...]
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE A Hollywood conservative has headed East. It’s “Freedom Concert” time for Jon Voight. The Academy Award winner will join Sean Hannity in Cincinnati and Atlanta this weekend to honor fallen soldiers and present college scholarships to surviving children. Mr. Voight — a warrior himself in many ways — has been cogitating about the [...]
The Wall Street Journal: KABUL — Amid dozens of election-day Taliban attacks that claimed 26 lives, Afghans voted for president Thursday — but reports of low turnout and fraud made it unclear whether bombs or ballots would ultimately emerge the day’s victor. Taliban militants had stepped up attacks for a week and threatened to target [...]
CHICAGO, Aug 20 (Reuters) – While businesses across the United States slash jobs, state and local governments have actually increased employment slightly since the economic recession began in December 2007, according to a report released on Thursday. “As is the typical pattern in recessions, overall state and local government employment continued to grow after the [...]
USA Today: The rough economy is inflicting hardship on people even in death. Coroners and funeral directors in several cities say the number of people seeking government-paid funerals, cremations and burials is spiking. Most counties and states will use public money to cremate or bury people who are too poor to pay for private services. [...]
Caught red handed, bold faced lying to the public to make the President look good. Shut down this entire f-ing network, it isn’t news. Its a propaganda channel. This right here, alone, should be enough to turn the public political tide wholly against the lying, brainwashing people in charge. Get ACTIVE, spread the word on [...]
The Hill: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) sent a strong signal to his colleagues that he wants his state prepared for life without him, renewing talk of the state’s first open Senate race in a quarter of a century. Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, opened the dialogue by sending a letter to Democratic leaders in [...]
PajamasMedia: I am sure you are as happy as I was when it was announced that the election of Barack Obama was ushering in a “post-racial†presidency. Thanks goodness! We could at last say farewell to racial shake-down artists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. At last, Black scholars like Henry Louis Gates would be [...]
Detroit News: The left is determined to stuff opponents of the Obama administration’s health care plan into two small boxes, one labeled “right-wing whackos” and the other, “gullible citizens deviously misled by right-wing whackos.” Tuesday morning, ABC news anchor Charles Gibson was asked by WJR’s Paul W. Smith about the growing public unrest over health [...]
CBS: The Obama administration is developing plans to wind down the popular Cash for Clunkers program and could announce by Friday when the incentives will no longer be available. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday the department would announce within 48 hours how it intends to discontinue the program that offers car buyers rebates of [...]
