By Susan Crabtree Senior Democrats are taking shots at the House’s new ethics watchdog, which has come back to bite some caucus members a year after Democratic leaders created it. Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) acknowledged a growing number of concerns about the Office of Congressional Ethics’s (OCE) record and predicted a coming public clash [...]
AP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday defended a Republican measure to prevent bringing five September 11 suspects from their Guantanamo prison to the United States for trial in civilian courts. “The question is not whether terror suspects should be brought to justice. The question is where and how,” the Republican senator said Wednesday. “And [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The missile wing commander at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base was relieved of his command Wednesday after a series of missteps at the unit, including two crashes of vehicles carrying missile parts in just more than a year. Col. Christopher Ayres’ was not ousted for any misconduct or wrongdoing, but [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea warned South Korea of a possible naval clash Thursday, accusing Seoul of sending warships into its waters around their disputed western sea border. The South’s “reckless military provocations” have created “such a serious situation that a naval clash may break out between the two sides in these waters,” [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she’d won the lottery and would pay for everyone’s purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving [...]
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News Busters: This ought to get the folks at the left-wing noise machine all wound up. Fox News host Glenn Beck on his Oct. 14 show, after being a regular recipient of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Persons in the World” on his “Countdown” program, decided to have a little fun by mocking Olbermann and [...]
We’re all scratching our heads too. Once again, this clown is making us the laughing stock of the world. PoliGazette: The left-wing NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands): â€What got into the committee to award this prize to a man who has yet to live up to the high expectations? Were they drunk?†Center-left to center Volkskrant (Netherlands): [...]
“I’ve been to hell they spell it, they spell it D-M-V. Everyone who’s been there knows precisely what I mean. I sat there and I waited, fought back the urge to scream…” – Les Claypool CNS News: The most revelatory passage in the so-called “plain English†version of the health care bill that the Senate [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh’s participation had complicated the [...]
If anything’s gonna cause a bloody revolution, this is it… LA Times: Reporting from Sacramento – The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation’s first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions. On Tuesday, executives and consultants for the Arlington, Va., [...]
FOX News: In recent weeks, President Obama has faced increasingly sharp criticism of his style and performance from an unlikely quarter: liberals. Liberal commentators from Saturday Night Live comedians to newspaper columnists to leftist bloggers to gay rights activists have been portraying Obama as a do-nothing president and “whiner-in-chief,” expressing a growing concern that the [...]
The Sun: SINGED strands of Michael Jackson’s hair that were burned in a Pepsi advert are coming up for sale. They were collected by Ralph Cohen, the executive producer of the commercial, who took off his coat to put the flames out on the singer’s head. Jackson was said to have never fully recovered from [...]
NewsBusters: England can’t afford to help Alzheimer’s patients pay for their medicine, but it can offer free shooting galleries to heroin addicts. On Oct. 14 CNN’s “American Morning” aired a segment about the controversial program that “gives heroin to heroin addicts at the taxpayers’ expense.” Correspondent Paula Newton declared, “A safe, steady supply of heroin [...]
