Fox News: House Speaker John Boehner on Friday pulled out of negotiations with President Obama on raising the nation’s legal limit to borrow money, just days before an Aug. 2 deadline when the government can no longer pay all its bills and faces its first-ever possible default. Video Below – Boehner: ‘It’s the President Who [...]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. The sale is drawing criticism from a leader of Holocaust survivors who says the business was profiting off the sale of one of the worst mass murderers in history. Alexander Autographs, of [...]
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Breitbart.tv: Remember when GEICO voice over actor D.C. Douglas was fired for leaving a hate-filled voice mail at Tea Party affiliated Freedom Works? Well, it seems he blames none other than Andrew Breitbart for his own personal failings and has retaliated with this “hilarious” video.
Fox News: The Senate on Friday voted to “table,” or kill, a House Republican proposal to “cut, cap and balance” the budget that Majority Leader Harry Reid called the single worst piece of legislation ever to hit the Senate floor. The House Republican “Cut, Cap and Balance” (measure) is now over. It’s done, dead,” Reid [...]
Fox News: State and local officials in Georgia who fail to enforce the new immigration laws could be hit with up to $5,000 in fines, and their agencies could lose funding, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The penalties would take effect once the state sets up a seven-member panel that would will have broad authority [...]
Houston Chronicle: The Drug Enforcement Administration has arrested 1,985 people in Texas and across the country, part of what the agency called a “surgical strike” to take down a network used by a besieged Mexican drug cartel believed to supply the vast majority of the methamphetamine imported into the United States. At least 44 people [...]
ABC News: As America bids farewell to the space shuttle era on Thursday, likely presidential candidate Rick Perry appears none too pleased with the Obama administration, accusing the president of “leaving American astronauts with no alternative but to hitchhike into space.” In a sharply worded statement issued by the governor of Texas — the state [...]