PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say they are reopening an investigation into allegations by a Portland massage therapist that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at a hotel in 2006. In a brief statement Wednesday, the Portland Police Bureau did not say why it was reopening the investigation. Police earlier said they considered the [...]
Guardian: Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists Scientists are confronting growing evidence that BP’s ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is creating oxygen-depleted “dead zones” where fish and other marine life cannot survive. In two separate [...]
Fox News: A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration’s handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for racially motivated reasons. J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger for Pajamas Media, [...]
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Los Angeles Times: California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash — meant to feed and clothe needy families — from ATM machines at strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen’s cabarets in Los Angeles. More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed from the start [...]
Fox News: A small Tennessee-based newspaper has become the center of a free speech firestorm after it was banned from a grocery store chain and a KFC for allegedly publishing “hate” speech. The Rutherford Reader, a family owned and operated business, runs feature columns of local interest, many of which lately have related to controversy [...]
Times Online: Leaving Afghanistan early would betray British loss of life, warns the British Defense Minister British Forces will be among the last to come home from Afghanistan and any premature withdrawal would be a “betrayal†of soldiers who have lost their lives, Liam Fox said yesterday. Days after David Cameron indicated that he wanted [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama has attacked House GOP Leader John Boehner for comparing the financial crisis to an ant. Obama struck out at Boehner (R-Ohio) during a town hall meeting in Racine, Wis., for saying the Wall Street reform bill was akin to using a nuclear weapon to kill an ant. “That’s right. He [...]
New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight Taliban insurgents were killed on Wednesday after they attacked the NATO air base in Jalalabad using a suicide car bomb and rocket-propelled grenades in a failed attempt to breach the gate. Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era. Go to the [...]
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USA Today: The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation’s economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. For more detail on the report, check out this post in USA TODAY’s The [...]
Washington Post: Gen. Stanley McChrystal will retain his four-star rank when he retires from the military, the White House said Tuesday. The decision means the general will earn about $149,700 per year before taxes in military retirement pay. President Obama dismissed McChrystal last week after he and members of his staff made disparaging comments about [...]
Politico: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand. House Democrats said no. Scalise’s trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisan squabbling [...]
