Stripes.com: MAIDAN SHAR, Afghanistan — A massive truck bomb exploded outside a small American base in southern Wardak province Wednesday morning, wounding 22 coalition troops and four Afghan civilians, military officials said. The explosion at Combat Outpost Dash-e-Towp near the town of Sayed Abad tore a hole nearly 30 feet wide in the earth-filled barriers [...]
FoxNews: U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users’ accounts without their knowledge. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals’ Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list [...]
Commentary Magazine: James Zogby, the anti-Israel pollster who released these findings today, blames the drop in support for Obama in the Arab world on Obama’s failure to put the amount of pressure on Israel the Arab world wanted and expected. But according to the poll, the Arab world doesn’t seem to be happy with any [...]
Fox News: The day after Rachel Rohrlach and her soon-to-be-husband, farmer Chris Rohrlach, announced they were expecting their first child, Rachel suffered a debilitating stroke that left her a quadriplegic. Rachel was just 21. Her son was born while she was in a coma. Fast forward several years later and the rigors of an Australian [...]
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According to the News Tribune, the 20-year-old defendant, Marsele Henderson, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Victor Schwenke in November 2008.
Los Angeles Times: Supervisor Jeff Stone, a Republican pharmacist from Temecula, called California an “ungovernable’’ financial catastrophe from which businesses are fleeing and where taxpayers are being crushed by the burden of caring for welfare recipients and illegal immigrants. A spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown had this retort to the proposal: “If you want to [...]
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman remained jailed Wednesday after authorities said she drugged her estranged husband, tied him to a bed, cut off his penis and put it through a garbage disposal. Suspect Catherine Kieu Becker spiked a meal and served it to the victim shortly before the attack Monday night, [...]
The Ticket: Mitt Romney still holds a significant lead over his rivals in the 2012 GOP primary, but Michele Bachmann has surged into second place nationally. A new Quinnipiac Poll finds Romney leading Bachmann by 11 points–25 percent to 14 percent among likely GOP voters. By comparison, Bachmann was in 6th place in a June [...]
The Lookout: The scandal-plagued, tiny New Mexico border town of Columbus is dissolving its police department and asking the county sheriff to protect its citizens. An employee at Columbus City Hall confirmed to The Lookout that the police force has been dissolved. The Luna County Sheriff’s Office will now take over patrolling the town. The [...]
The World Link: Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday that he may rejoin the so-called Gang of Six, the bipartisan band of senators seeking to reach agreement on a big deficit-cutting deal that would blend spending cuts with a tax code overhaul. The Oklahoma Republican dropped out of the group two months ago saying Democrats weren’t [...]
WSJ: MillerCoors was told by Minnesota officials that it must remove its 39 brands of beer from shelves statewide because the company’s brand license registrations weren’t processed before the state government shut down June 30 for budget reasons. An even bigger concern, however, is that hundreds of bars, restaurants and retailers may run out of [...]
National Review Online: You’ll recall that at the end of last month, I had doubts that Obama’s fundraising would be as bad as some predicted. From the June 30 Morning Jolt: Campaign officials revealed during the last week that they have set a target of raising $60 million for the quarter from at least 450,000 [...]
