At first, the prospect drew mildly worried looks from people on both sides of this state’s giant political divide: Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, was to appear on the steps of this state’s Capitol, the very place that has become a stage for demonstration after demonstration against Wisconsin’s Republican-led efforts to cut collective [...]
An Army veteran from Fayetteville won a quarter million dollars in the Georgia Lottery days before his return to Afghanistan. Gregg Curry, a father of three and a master sergeant with the Third U.S. Army Forces Central Command, bought a winning Cool Cash ticket while stopping to buy a bottle of water with his wife, [...]
New York Times: CAIRO — The prison is called Tora Farm, but there is nothing agricultural about it. It is a two-story block of poured concrete, and for years its massive gray walls have held those deemed enemies of the powerful. Now they hold the full tableau of state power under President Hosni Mubarak: Gamal [...]
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Washington Times: Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action over an extended period of time, according to senior NATO and U.S. officials. The shortage of European munitions, along with [...]
A mother was involved in a ten-hour stand-off with a police SWAT team after refusing to give her child some medication. Maryanne Godboldo, from Detroit, was accused of medically neglecting her 13-year-old daughter Ariana by not administering her with an anti-psychotic drug. Staff from the Child Protective Services, accompanied by police, turned up at Godboldo’s [...]
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The Hill: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the chief sponsor of the effort to defund administration-appointed advisers known as “czars,” reacted angrily Saturday to a signing statement from Obama saying he plans to keep them. In a statement emailed to The Hill, Scalise accused Obama of acting like a “dictator.” “President Obama should know that it [...]
In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case simply says he will not abide by it. Last week the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans were involved in intense negotiations over not only the size of the budget for the [...]
Speaking to a Tea Party rally in Boston on Friday, Tim Pawlenty struck a tough, populist tone, thanking the crowd for being “modern day Paul Reveres,” and telling them it was time to take back the government from politicians he said have overreached. “We are here to tell them this message,” Pawlenty said to a [...]
A Colorado woman who admitted her 13 month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she played on Facebook was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said. A judge also ordered Shannon Johnson, 34, to serve five years of mandatory parole upon her release from prison, Jennifer Finch, spokeswoman for the Weld County [...]
An Iraqi immigrant has been sentenced to 34 1/2 years in an Arizona prison for running over his daughter because she became too Westernized. Faleh Hassan Almaleki was convicted of second-degree murder in the October 2009 death of his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Almaleki. A jury also found the 50-year-old guilty of aggravated assault for running [...]
I read these stories and my heart breaks. Part of wishes I could have reached out to Clay in hopes of maybe being that voice who helped. And then there is another part that reads about the VA letting this Hero down that makes me ask.. Grateful Nation? How can a “grateful nation” allow this [...]
