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The Smoking Gun: JULY 21–The Virginia man who this year threatened the creators of “South Park” over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, was arrested today on federal charges after speaking openly to the FBI about his connection to a terror organization and his plans to travel overseas to fight [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sheriff’s detectives in Los Angeles are checking extortion allegations against Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says the agency is looking into whether Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva may have tried to extort the Academy Award-winner. He declined to offer any other details on the inquiry. Detectives earlier this month interviewed [...]
Politico: The election of Barack Obama, America’s first black president, was supposed to be a sign of our national maturity, a chance to transform the charged, stilted “national conversation†about race into a smarter and more authentic dialogue, led by a president who was also one of the nation’s subtlest thinkers and writers on the [...]
The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate in the United States is likely to remain well above 7 percent through the end of 2012 and the duration of President Obama’s current term, according to the Federal Reserve. Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, told Congress on Wednesday that it would take “a significant [...]
Washington Times: By Ray Hartwell Arizona has enacted a law that enables state and local police to support fed- eral immigration en- forcement, in a care- fully circumscribed manner. This moderate statute is under vicious attack by the Obama administration and assorted amnesty advocates. Yet Arizona and her sister states in the Southwest could take [...]
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Examiner: BP has been buying scientists throughout the Gulf Coast region in an effort to keep their findings on the affects of the oil spill quiet. Scientists at Louisiana State University, Alabama University, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Southern Alabama, and other independent scientists, have all been approached by BP with a [...]
(Reuters) – Many supporters of Barack Obama hoped his election as America’s first black president might herald an era of post-racial politics, but race has been an issue his administration just can’t seem to avoid. Division and tension between black and white Americans has cropped up repeatedly over Obama’s 18 months in office, hurting his [...]
NY Post: Maybe once just wasn’t enough. Authorities are investigating charges from two additional masseuses that Al Gore groped them, according to the National Enquirer. The latest round of accusations come after a red-headed 54-year-old massage therapist claimed the former vice president wanted a below-the-belt rubdown at a posh, downtown Portland hotel. The incident, which [...]