Look for trouble, get trouble… Washington Times: A controversial billboard that a secularist group put up on Billy Graham Parkway in North Carolina was defaced this weekend by spray painters who inserted the words “under God” on the sign. The original sign, one of several placed across the state, read “One Nation Indivisible,” making the [...]
Remember, her side “doesn’t worry about the Constitution”… NY Times: 12:51 p.m. | Updated Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings haven’t even begun, and the score is already 1-0 against her. The Supreme Court on Monday morning ruled against Ms. Kagan in a case she had argued as solicitor general when it decided that a [...]
Politico: Sen. Robert Byrd may join Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy among historic figures who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda — an honor bestowed upon only 28 other Americans over the past 160 years. Senate leaders are likely to make a request for Byrd to lie in state, aides said Monday, [...]
New York Times: MEXICO CITY — A popular candidate for governor of Tamaulipas State who had made increased security his prime campaign pledge was killed along with at least four others Monday morning when gunmen opened fire on his motorcade as he headed to a campaign event, the authorities said. The killing of the candidate, [...]
Gossip Cop: Gossip Cop has learned that Rosie O’Donnell is negotiating with NBC to have her new talk show aired on the Peacock network’s owned and operated stations. The information comes from the same reliable source who told us exclusively in March that O’Donnell had signed a production deal for a new daytime program. The [...]
Sergio Vega was a narco-pop star, singing of the drug trade This just gets better and better down there. You can’t make this kind of crap up. And for my money, if you tried, these cockroaches would outdo you… BBC: Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports [...]
by Snarky Basterd Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) died early this morning at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va. Upon arriving in Hell, he was immediately appointed KKK Grand Dragon. Byrd was greeted at the gates of Hell by long-time friend Ted Kennedy, who made an unsuccessful bid for president of Hell last year shortly after [...]
Guardian: Iran is to postpone nuclear talks with the west as a “punishment” for the imposition of new UN sanctions that are designed to it stop enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today. Negotiations would be put off until after Ramadan in late August, he said, though no talks have in fact been scheduled. “It’s [...]
The Telegraph: A senior Israeli diplomat has warned that the Jewish state’s relationship with the United States has suffered a “tectonic rift”. The sobering assessment comes a week before Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, meets President Barack Obama at the White House. There had been hope the two could lay to rest a row [...]
