NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE’-nur) of New York is ending a rough year with some good news. A spokeswoman says the Democrat and his wife, Huma Abedin (HOO’-muh AB’-uh-deen), welcomed son Jordan Zain Weiner on Wednesday. Weiner resigned from Congress in June amid outrage over sexually explicit emails and social [...]
(ABC News) — Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, himself not the skinniest of lawmakers, was heard at the airport today remarking on the size of Michelle Obama’s behind Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, said that the first lady “lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.” Amanda Infield, Sensenbrenner’s press secretary, tells ABC [...]
New York Times: BAGHDAD — A wave of coordinated explosions ripped across Baghdad early on Thursday, killing at least 63 people, wounding more than 180 and jolting a country already unsettled by a deepening political crisis and the absence of American troops. Using car bombs and improvised explosives, insurgents attacked markets, grocery stores, schools and [...]
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Breitbart.tv: Dr. Paul has come under fire for some racial overtones in his political newsletters published during the 1980s and early 1990s Dr. Paul has consistently denied knowledge that he knew what existed in these letters and has said repeatedly that because he was so busy with his practice that he did not pay close [...]
Roll Call: During the waning days of the 2008 presidential race, there was an important but overlooked occurrence on the John McCain campaign. In mid-October, the McCain campaign awoke to find that its Web videos and online advertisements were disappearing from its YouTube page. The culprit turned out to be a major television network claiming [...]
(Reuters) – North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week’s death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the military, which is trying to develop [...]
The Telegraph: The unmarried woman was said to have told the married father of her child that it had died to keep him away, and wore loose clothes and visited a hospital far from her home so relatives would not learn she was pregnant. The father got hold of the baby girl’s birth certificate and [...]
Fox News: The U.S. Postal Service has ordered a letter carrier to stop wearing a Santa Claus outfit after a co-worker complained. Bob McLean has been dressing up as Santa for the past decade, donning a red suit to deliver the mail along his route in Bellevue, WA. He even has a snow white beard [...]
Washington Times: Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished “every success” to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country’s state-run news agency. A dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr. Carter sent the [...]
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The City of Los Angeles reportedly faces millions of dollars in expenses brought about by the Occupy LA movement. City agencies have been ordered to calculate what was spent on the Occupy LA protests. Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require [...]
BBC: The Finnish authorities have impounded an Isle of Man-flagged ship bound for China with undeclared missiles and explosives, officials say. Police are questioning the crew of the MS Thor Liberty after what were described as 69 Patriot anti-missile missiles were found aboard. Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen said the missiles were marked “fireworks”. The MS [...]
National Review: Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.) is in Egypt, meeting with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamist organization whose goals are to destroy Israel, “conquer Europe” and “conquer America” (to quote its most influential jurist, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi). The Brotherhood, which operates throughout the world, seeks the imposition by governments of strict [...]
