Politico: Rejecting a plea for leniency from Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee voted to censure the New York Democrat, marking the first time in more than three decades that any lawmaker will face such a public rebuke by his colleagues. By a vote of 9 to 1, the ethics committee imposed the harsh [...]
Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told President Barack Obama that House Democrats remain firmly committed to allowing Bush-era tax cuts expire for earners making more than $250,000 — a move that could complicate the administration’s efforts to reach a compromise with Republicans. After joining Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other Democratic congressional leaders [...]
Washington Post: A retweeted joke has landed a Chinese woman in a labor camp for a year, Amnesty International reported Wednesday. On the day of her wedding, Oct. 27, Chinese online activist Cheng Jianping disappeared. Only this week did her whereabouts surface: She had been detained and sentenced by police to a year of “re-education [...]
Fox News: House Democrats on Thursday rejected a GOP proposal to cut federal funding to National Public Radio, which has been under fire ever since it sacked Juan Williams last month. The proposal, which was the winning entry this week in YouCut — an anti-government spending program started by House Republicans earlier this year — [...]
Fox News: I never thought that we’d be in this paramilitary type of engagement. It’s a war on the border,” said Captain Stacy Holland with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Holland leads a fleet of 16 state-of-the-art helicopters that make up the aviation assets used by the Texas DPS to fight Mexican drug cartels. [...]
The Hill: Rep. Charles Rangel, who was convicted of violating 11 House ethics rules, asked the ethics panel to consider his years of service when recommending its punishment for him on Thursday afternoon. The 80-year-old New York Democrat, who was reelected to a 21st term two weeks ago, admitted that he “failed in carrying out [...]
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STOCKHOLM (AP) – A Swedish court has approved a request by prosecutors to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Assange has denied the accusations, which stem from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August. Thursday’s decision by the Stockholm District [...]
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Television ‘Hulk’ actor Lou Ferrigno has joined an Arizona sheriff’s posse targeting illegal immigrants in the Phoenix valley area, the sheriff’s office said on Wednesday. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Ferrigno, 59, a body builder who donned green makeup to star in the popular 1970s television series ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ was [...]
Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president. The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side gathering of donors [...]
Singing in the video is Edward Anatolevich Hill, a Soviet-era vocalist appointed by the State as the “People’s Artist of the USSR” in 1974. Poor us. We were stuck at the time with Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynard and other garbage allowed by freedom.
