Fox News: Authorities say they have new information that could lead to some of the 40 victims of a man convicted of sexual torture, including an Albuquerque woman missing for 16 years. FBI agents, New Mexico State Police and Albuquerque police plan to search around Elephant Butte Lake on Tuesday. They believe that’s where David [...]
Fay Observer Dr. Winston Tornow smiled as he emerged from the car Sunday morning at PK Air Park in Raeford. He also smiled through the video warnings about what could happen during a tandem parachute jump. And when the 95-year-old World War II veteran landed safely after taking his first jump from an airplane, he [...]
Politico: Karl Rove’s team and the Koch brothers’ operatives quietly coordinated millions of dollars in political spending in 2010, but that alliance, which has flown largely under the radar, is showing signs of fraying. And with each network planning to dwarf its 2010 effort, Republicans worry that the emerging rivalry between the two deepest-pocketed camps [...]
Ben and Jerry’s, the ice cream maker owned by international mega-conglomerate Unilever, has endorsed the anti-corprorate Occupy Wall Street protests. Ben and Jerry’s was sold to Unilever in 2000 for $326 million. A statement on the company’s website declares: We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other U.S. cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings that toppled Arab autocrats in the Middle East. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the protests against corporate [...]
Daily Mail: It started as a gathering of furious youngsters, protesting about the supposed lack of opportunities for the average American. But then the freeloaders came along. As the Occupy Wall Street protest continued in full strength in Manhattan this weekend, the atmosphere in New York’s financial district became increasingly debauched. Meanwhile the protests against [...]
Rebel Pundit: We caught up with this anti-war protester on Saturday. He was shouting “die and hang” to a woman holding sign supporting Gitmo. He was afraid we were with Fox News and we might only use snippets of the interview, so we decided it was best to let you hear most of his thoughts.
The above is a tweet sent out by Michael Yon today. The video is here on this post, below.
NRO’s Jim Geraghty: I’m not terribly familiar with this firm, Poll Position, and they’re using automated voice survey techology (robo-pollsters, like Rasmussen) but their new survey result is worth mentioning because of the tidal shift it might represent: Herman Cain beating Barack Obama in a head-to-head matchup. Yes, that Herman Cain, the widely-liked former pizza [...]
An instructor demonstrates how to pick the lock on handcuffs using a bobby pin at the Occupy Wall Street occupation of Zuccotti Park, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Philly Now: In a two-hour speech yesterday, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan called for blacks to take off their bedroom slippers (echoing President Obama), and called for a central bank to help blacks rebuild their own communities. He called upon black millionaires and billionaires to set up a corporation to loan money to blacks, [...]
The Hill: More than half of all Americans have heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement and more have a positive than negative view of the movement according to a new ORC International Caravan / CNN poll released Monday. The protests, which began nearly a month ago and heave spread across the country, is seen [...]
Related: NYPD Commissioner Lashes Out At Protesters For Violent Attacks On Police Officers Paul Krugman In The New York Times: It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Barack Obama’s sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington. When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has [...]