New Mexico State Police officer Bert Lawrence Lopez, left, pictured during a January DWI checkpoint The New Mexican: The New Mexico State Police officer who was photographed having sex on the hood of a Honda is no longer a cop. Bert Lopez was informed late this week that the Department of Public Safety has fired [...]
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — A neo-Nazi rally in the Milwaukee area has drawn far more protesters than marchers. The National Socialist Movement predicted at least 100 neo-Nazis would attend Saturday afternoon’s rally in West Allis. However, fewer than two dozen people were on the Nazi side of police barriers. Meanwhile, about 1,000 protesters gathered [...]
Politico: In a closely watched decision, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer decided Friday against moving her state’s presidential primary to Jan. 31, a decision that would have almost certainly triggered a domino effect pushing the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses into early January, if not December 2011. Brewer, a Republican, began discussing moving the primary [...]
The Hill: The audience at the Iowa Tea Party of America rally on Saturday chanted “Run Sarah, Run!” but former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin still won’t say if she will be a candidate for president. Palin instead unleashed an attack on “corporate crony capitalism” which she says has flourished under President Obama. She raised asked [...]
“This is one heckuva of a Road Trip!” the National: Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old university student from Los Angeles, California,shrugging cooly, declared: “It is the end of my summer vacation, so I thought it would be cool to join the rebels. This is one of the only real revolutions” in the world. In a daring, [...]
A Medical evacuation flight (Mississippi Air National Guard’s 172nd Airlift Wing/791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron) from Balad Air Base, Iraq, to Ramstein Air Base, Germany Not about the blood you share but the blood you shed together. US Army flight Medic SGT Patrick Schultz talks to a wounded US soldier in the rear of a [...]
Washington Times: A Pentagon report has found that a multibillion-dollar Chinese telecommunications company that has been seeking to make major inroads in the U.S. market has close ties to China’s military, despite the company’s denials. The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on China’s military, released last month, identifies Huawei as a high-tech company linked to [...]
KVIA-7: EL PASO, Texas — Border Patrol officials are investigating an incursion by Mexican federal police into the United State on Thursday morning. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said armed officers with Mexico’s Secretaria de Seguridad Publica federal police were in the incursion, which took place in El Paso, near the Border Patrol’s Ysleta [...]
I suppose the feds will have to bail out these banks when they fail because of these lawsuits. It was the federal government that forced the banks to make risky subprime loans in the first place. Fannie and Freddie get off scot-free in spite of their role in the high-risk mortgage meltdown. This sounds like [...]
Wall Street Journal: Rahm Emanuel may have decamped to Chicago, but Democrats in Washington still won’t let a good crisis go to waste. Their current gambit is to use Hurricane Irene as a pretext to prevent spending cuts to one of Washington’s most notorious boondoggles. This week the left-wing press has been attacking House Majority [...]
Associated Press: ..WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass a transportation bill to ensure funding for roads and construction jobs, arguing that failure to do so would spell economic disaster. Republicans say they support passing the bill, but Obama says time is running out and “political posturing” may stand in [...]
Stripes: LANDSTUHL, Germany (AP) — Volunteer staff from the U.S. military’s Landstuhl Regional Medical center huddle outside the emergency room doors, waiting under heat lamps on a crisp morning for what has become a daily routine in a decade of war – the arrival on a blue bus of the latest casualties from Iraq and [...]
Washington Post: Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have been laying out a secret new runway for CIA drones. When the missiles start falling, [...]
Keesler Air Force Base: “While the general’s away, the cats will play.” Maybe that’s what a couple of kittens were thinking when they decided to roost in the 81st Medical Group commander’s staff car. Bruce Dye, a member of the 81st Medical Support Squadron medical information management flight, was reporting to work Aug. 14 and [...]
The Atlantic: SOON AFTER HE DEPLOYED to southern Afghanistan this spring, Lieutenant Commander Nathan Solomon, a Navy chaplain, learned of a disconcerting and persistent belief among the locals in northern Marja: the Afghan soldiers stationed there weren’t Muslim. The Taliban had convinced many in this stretch of Helmand province that the Afghan soldiers—most of whom [...]
. Pfc. Kyle Hockenberry, of 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Infantry Regiment, 1st Heavy Combat Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, who was injured in an improvised explosive device attack near Haji Ramuddin, is treated by flight medic Cpl. Amanda Mosher while being transported by medevac helicopter to the Role 3 hospital at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan [...]
