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MSNBC Coming out of the womb weighing more than 16 pounds, JaMichael Brown couldn’t even fit in one of his home state’s famous 10-gallon hats. Even in a place where everything is reputedly bigger, the newborn boy may have set the record for the biggest baby ever born in Texas. Proud parents Janet Johnson and [...]
KMOX: Twenty-months after he claims he was beaten by two union activists, while he tried to sell conservative buttons outside a Congressman Russ Carnahan town hall forum on health care reform, Kenneth Gladney now has a court date. The case against two Service Employees International Union members accused of attacking Gladney is scheduled for July [...]
It’s hard to believe these treacherous, traitorous little bastards can make such statements with a straight face… Reuters: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani called on the United States on Sunday to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri after U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden’s successor was in [...]
The Daily Caller: The number of wiretaps conducted by federal and state law enforcement in 2010 jumped 34 percent from the prior year, according to a new federal report. The 2010 Wiretap Report said federal and state courts approved 3,194 orders for intercepting wire, oral or electronic communications. That was up from the 2,376 intercepts [...]
The GOP needs to stop feeding on its own and deal with the issues. FoxNews: Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, taking the gloves off, said Sunday that fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann’s record is “nonexistent.” Pawlenty’s tough comments come as he faces mounting questions about the viability of his campaign. The former Minnesota governor is trailing far [...]
FoxNews: Partisan tensions were flaring ahead of a critical summit Sunday evening at the White House, where aides say President Obama plans to make one last push for a major deficit-reduction deal amid doubts on both sides. Fox News has confirmed that the talks are still on despite a surprise announcement from House Speaker John [...]
Politico: Speaker John Boehner told President Barack Obama Saturday that he would not move forward with talks on a large-scale deficit reduction plan, pointing to taxes and entitlements as the main sticking points. Boehner will still attend a meeting Sunday at the White House with other congressional leaders, but a Republican familiar with the negotiations [...]
Investor’s Business Daily: It’s official — the radical Muslim Brotherhood has co-opted America’s agenda in the Mideast and possibly the broader war. The Obama administration has formalized ties with the group. In a shocking first, the State Department will now allow diplomats to deal directly with Muslim Brotherhood party officials in Cairo, where the international [...]
CBS: Your Nanny State at work… NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – An elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can. Darbe Pitofsky, 83, said she was on her way for a cup of coffee [...]
Associated Press: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Insurance agents in states along the swollen Missouri River basin say federal officials are causing widespread confusion among property owners by pushing the sale of flood insurance policies that might not cover damage from the river flooding that began this month. The insurance companies say that officials with the [...]
The Telegraph: Costly new incentives to encourage energy companies to invest in renewable power sources such as wind farms will put an extra £160 a year on the average household bill over the next 20 years. The huge rise is on top of drastic increases in bills being faced already by consumers. Last Friday British [...]
The Washington Examiner: Investigators for the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform are asking the White House official who oversaw the government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler whether he told the truth in recent testimony before the committee. Ron Bloom, Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy, is quoted in a 2009 newspaper [...]
The Associated Press: MEXICO CITY — Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday. At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire [...]
