Archive for November, 2011

NY Daily News: A fire engulfed a three-story Brooklyn apartment building Thursday — setting up a dramatic rescue and revival of an 8-month-old boy. Flames broke out at 12:15 p.m. on the top floor of the Park Slope brownstone on President St. near Fourth Ave. The fast-moving fire trapped five people on the third floor [...]

ABC News: It was an overcast day in Newport, N.H., when a simple “20/20? shoot turned into something that made me wonder about life after death. I was filming soldier Justin Rollin’s parents Skip and Rhonda playing with their dog Hero, whose rescue from the Iraq War zone where Justin died was nothing short of [...]

The Daily Caller: The Council on American-Islamic Relations was not pleased by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call to profile Muslims as a way to combat terrorism during Tuesday night’s GOP debate on CNN. Answering debate moderator Wolf Blitzer’s question about whether he would support ethnic or religious profiling, Santorum replied that Muslims should be [...]

The Daily Caller: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the tea party movement has been more effective than Occupy Wall Street in influencing American politics. Rathke was unequivocal about the Occupy movement, telling The [...]

Obama Uses Turkey Pardon To Express Frustration He’s Not Dictator

A day ahead of the US national holiday Thanksgiving, Obama performed the offbeat tradition of “pardoning” a turkey, ensuring the bird will live out its days without being served up as the festivity’s main dish. Obama “joked” it was one duty he could perform without approval of an obstructive Congress.

A wealthy Swedish businessman was surprised to learn on Wednesday that the grounds near his luxurious home appear to feature a giant penis visible only from the sky. “It may be distasteful, but it’s not illegal,” Nicholas Rundbom, a spokesperson for Hitta.se, the Swedish directory and map website which published the phallus-filled aerial photograph, told [...]

ABC News: Acclaimed Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy, released today in Cairo, said Egyptian security forces sexually assaulted and beat her so severely that an arm and hand were broken during her overnight detention. “I AM FREE,” she wrote on her Twitter page just after noon local time. “12 hours with Interior Ministry bastards and military [...]

The Daily Caller: Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia. “As a result of their grand jury findings, 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public [...]

<b>Nasty:</b> Historian Shouts Down Congressman At Hearing

Televised congressional hearings often serve as a platform for members of Congress to berate, bloviate and showboat for the cameras, but at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday, historian Douglas Brinkley wouldn’t stand for it. The topic at hand was drilling in the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The trouble began when Alaska Republican [...]

Boy Saves His Mother’s Life By Shooting Attacker With BB Gun
<b>“Most Horrific Complaint Court Has Seen”:</b> “Diabolical” Gay Teen’s Elaborate Facebook-Based Sex Attacks

(CBS News) – In this country, Black Friday is becoming Black Thursday. For a lot of retailers, the holiday season begins Thursday night. More than 150 million people are expected to shop this weekend. Retailers hope to rake in $466 billion in holiday sales this year — up nearly 3 percent over 2010. As CBS [...]

Wild Turkey Kills Itself Crashing Through Restaurant Window On Thanksgiving

PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — A wild turkey smashed through a plate glass window at an empty western Pennsylvania restaurant and ended up where millions of its fellow gobblers did on Thanksgiving: a dining room. Penn Hills police Officer Bernard Sestili tells the WTAE-TV the feathered fowl didn‘t survive impact when it barreled into the [...]

Gabrielle Giffords Serves Thanksgiving Meal To Troops

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to service members and retirees at a military base in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz. (Nov. 24)

CAIRO — Egypt’s interim military rulers and the masses of protesters demanding their exit dug in Thursday for a prolonged standoff as the generals vowed to forge ahead with parliamentary elections despite a week of violence that is certain to tarnish the vote. State news organizations reported that at least one political party — the [...]

Raw Video: Thanksgiving At #OccupyWallStreet
Raw Video: <b>Thanksgiving In Afghanistan</b>

Marines and sailors aboard Camp Leatherneck were served Thanksgiving Dinner in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The area has been a focal point of the U.S.-led strategy to counter the Taliban and other insurgent groups. (Nov. 24)

Tantaros: “We’re Not Going To Be Able To Go On These Fancy Bin Laden Raids” If Defense Budget Is Cut

Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes: President Obama did not include any reference to God during his weekly address titled, “On Thanksgiving, Grateful for the Men and Women Who Defend Our Country.” His remarks were void of any religious references although Thanksgiving is a holiday traditionally steeped in giving thanks and praise to God. The president [...]

The Cut Line: The rogue hacker group known as Anonymous posted a YouTube video disclosing the cellphone number, email and home address of Lt. John Pike, the University of California Davis police officer who sparked worldwide outrage when he pepper-sprayed a group of student protesters over the weekend. “Dear Officer John Pike,” a computer-generated voice [...]