Wall Street Journal: An Occupy Wall Street participant was arrested Tuesday in connection with two sexual assaults at Zuccotti Park, according to a law enforcement official. Police arrested Tonye Iketubosin, a 26-year-old Crown Heights man, after two women report two separate assaults to the New York Police Department, the official said. One of the women, [...]
Sports Grid: Last Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz., Notre Dame Prep beat Horizon High School 31-28…but at one point during the game, fans’ cameras focused not on the field, but something happening thousands of feet – or MILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS – above it: This is creepier than the Notre Dame “UFO sighting” for a few [...]
Texas Tribune: Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is adamantly refuting the suggestion that it helped orchestrate a POLITICO story on past allegations of sexual harassment involving businessman Herman Cain. In an interview on Fox News, top Cain adviser Mark Block blamed Perry adviser Curt Anderson — who worked on Cain’s unsuccessful 2004 Senate campaign — [...]
UK Mail: A family law judge faced a police investigation today after his disabled daughter posted on YouTube a secretly-filmed video of her father beating her with a leather belt. Hillary Adams took revenge on her father, Court-at-Law Judge William Adams from Aransas County, Texas, saying: ‘It had happened before, and had been escalating. I [...]
Mediaite: We talked about the back-room politicking in that chapter, and Matthews sharply criticized President Obama for failing to develop those kinds of relationships, for not talking to Democratic senators, and for “sending everybody home” after the 2008 election. “He doesn’t have anybody on his side because he doesn’t spend time recruiting an army,” Matthews [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A third former employee considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior when she and Cain, now a Republican presidential candidate, worked together during the late 1990s, the woman told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She said the behavior included a private invitation to [...]
Forbes: Was the recent attack on Herman Cain’s presidential campaign a professional hit job? Absolutely, says Herman Cain. And he says he knows just where to look for the guy who did it: At 815 Slaters Lane in Alexandria, Virginia, a low-slung former warehouse in the shadow of a coal plant. There, beside rusting rail [...]
From Krugman’s blog in the NY Times: Via David Dayen, the favored candidate of those who believe we need a smart centrist to solve our nation’s problems reveals himself to be completely ignorant about the causes of our economic crisis, someone who just swallows right-wing propaganda whole: “I hear your complaints,” Bloomberg said. “Some of [...]
Almasry Alyoum: Two boats set sail from the Turkish port of Fethiye on 2 November, bound for the Gaza Strip in another activist attempt to break the Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. The two boats, one Irish and one Canadian, were supposed to carry some 50 activists and journalists from around the world in [...]
Life News: Yesterday Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, joined a coalition of left-wing groups in Florida to protest pro-life Republican Governor Rick Scott and to show support for the larger Occupy Wall Street movement taking place nationwide. Awake the State, which organized the rally, was accompanied by Planned Parenthood and Occupy Orlando at [...]
The Daily Caller: Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City reside in more luxurious homes than some of their rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found. For each of the 984 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in New York City between September 18 and October 15, police collected and filed [...]
