PASADENA, Calif (AP) – NBC decided to end the Jay Leno experiment when some of its affiliates started talking about dropping the nightly prime-time show, its top entertainment executive said Sunday. NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin said Sunday that Leno’s nightly prime-time show will end with the beginning of the Winter Olympics on [...]
HONOLULU (AP) – Cash-strapped Hawaii can’t afford to pay for an election to replace a congressman who is planning to step down next month to run for governor, potentially leaving 600,000 urban Honolulu residents without representation in Washington. Budget cuts have left the state Office of Elections with about $5,000 to last until July, with [...]
(AFP) Violent crime fell sharply in the United States last year, and experts are pinning the falling numbers on a greying population, high unemployment — even Barack Obama’s election. Crimes from murder to robbery to forcible rape, from motor vehicle theft to burglary all decreased — sometimes by double-digit percentages — in the first six [...]
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CHICAGO (AP) – A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and reads his mind. Screeners pull him aside. Tragedy is averted. As far-fetched as that sounds, systems that aim to [...]
Don’t forget who Google is the lapdog of. New York Times: Google is stepping up its forays into the energy world. The Internet search company, which consumes vast amounts of electricity to run the computers in its data centers, created a subsidiary last month called Google Energy. It then applied for approval from the Federal [...]
CNS News: Even if Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab had never boarded that Christmas flight from Amsterdam to Detroit wearing explosive underpants, a passage on page 17 of a report published in July by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security would still be eye-popping. “Not all known or reasonably suspected terrorists are prohibited from [...]
This guy showed reservations for deploying to Iraq, yet he DIDN’T shoot up his entire Army base? Hmmm… He must be a terrorist! Besides, if writing a song that disagrees with the President is illegal, then why haven’t the members of Greenday been jailed yet?
BBC: A “not guilty” plea has been entered on behalf of the Nigerian man accused of attempting to detonate a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. The Detroit judge took the action after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declined to enter a plea during his first court appearance. Mr Abdulmutallab, 23, is charged with the [...]
And we all know what happened to JFK… NewsBusters: For the second time in two days, ABC attempted to exonerate Barack Obama from responsibility for a failed Christmas Day airline bombing. On Friday’s Good Morning America, Brian Ross spun, “Well, like another young president almost 50 years ago, Barack Obama found the so-called intelligence professionals, [...]
FOX News: MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats’ health proposals in the media. Gruber, according to federal government documents, is [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Two officials said Thursday night they have been subpoenaed to answer questions next week before a federal grand jury about a high-profile Arizona sheriff who gained attention for aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration. In statements read by a county spokesman, Maricopa County Manager David Smith and Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson [...]
How’s that for a “Bush did it” proclamation? 9-11? “Bush did it.” Recession? “Bush did it.” Lost your necktie? “Bush did it.” Createdjobs instead of loosing jobs ? “Bush did it.” GOP.com: After Attacking Bush During Periods Of Job Growth, And Pledging Their Stimulus Would Create Millions Of Jobs, Where’s The Dems’ Outrage? RNC CHAIRMAN [...]
