Wall Street Journal: Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in August, as the number of recipients hit 45.8 million. Food stamp rolls have risen 8.1% in the past year, the Department of Agriculture reported, though the pace of growth has slowed from the depths of the recession. The number of recipients [...]
New York Daily News: Mayor Bloomberg struck a tougher tone with the Occupy Wall Street protestors Wednesday — and said the city might be forced to “take actions” at Zuccotti Park. Bloomberg said the city must listen to the residents and business owners near the protest site who are starting to loudly complain about the [...]
Excerpted from Big Government: A member of the New York Police Department, who requested anonymity, has told Big Government that crime is even more prevalent at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration than has been reported. “It is far from the butterflies and Bambis that the media is trying to portray,” he told us. He described [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite her lawyer’s claims, a woman who accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s is reluctant to talk about the episode in public. A person close to the situation said Wednesday that no decision has been made about asking the National Restaurant Association to release the woman [...]
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CBS: MIAMI, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – Children of illegal immigrants living in Florida are suing the state for charging them out-of-state tuition. Wendy Ruiz, a sophomore at Miami Dade College, is one of those behind the lawsuit. She is paying $5,000 more than she technically has to, because her college insisted upon charging her out-of-state [...]
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) – A judge on Wednesday sentenced Lindsay Lohan to serve 30 days in jail for a probation violation. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced the actress for violating the terms of her release by being terminated from a community service assignment at a women’s shelter. The actress acknowledged she violated her probation. [...]
Radar Online: A 20-year-old California woman has filed a bombshell lawsuit against teen pop icon Justin Bieber ** alleging he is the father of her three-month-old baby boy, Star magazine is exclusively reporting in its new issue. Mariah Yeater is demanding the singer take a paternity test “to scientifically confirm” he is the father of [...]
Sky News: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally support in his cabinet for an attack on Iran, according to government sources. The country’s defence minister Ehud Barak and the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman are said to be among those backing a pre-emptive strike to neutralise Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But a narrow majority [...]
USA Today: WASHINGTON – Four years after Congress imposed restrictions on travel funded by outside groups, federal lawmakers are frequent fliers again, taking 415 privately funded trips between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 – a nearly 75% jump in the number of trips they took during the same period in 2010, records show. The value [...]
Surveillance Video Shows Violent Machete Attack at Carry-Out Restaurant: MyFoxDC.com
Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose activities have angered the U.S. government, should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, the High Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting his appeal against extradition. Swedish authorities want to question the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault made [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – Making a case for national gun registration, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said “perhaps mistakes were made” in the botched gun-walking program known as Fast and Furious, but she said trying to assign blame misses the larger problem. “This is a deep concern for me. I know others disagree, but we have [...]
CBS: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Occupy Wall Street movement, which says its goals include improving the economic lot for 99 percent of Americans, may have some explaining to do to some cafe workers now out of a job. Mark Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall Street, just let 21 employees [...]
Avi Jorisch: As details of the Iranian terror plot to blow up the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC become clearer, the U.S. and other Western allies will look to punish Iran. One of the most powerful ways to influence Iran is through the banking sector. Through an interesting turn of events, Canada is in a [...]
Associated Press: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has authorized its military to take all necessary steps to stop rocket fire from Gaza, including a ground operation, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, as Egypt worked on a truce and said Israel had agreed to delay stepping up its response. The Israeli government decision stopped well short [...]
