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Washington Times: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “America’s toughest lawman,” was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department’s handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system. Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, who heads the department’s Civil Rights Division, [...]

Faked? Downed in Afghanistan by Hezbollah agents? Whatever the case, the administration missed prime opportunities to take Iran to task…but who would expect anything less from the Obama administration? UPI: (UPI) — A former Pentagon official says the unmanned U.S. spy plane Iran recently announced it captured appears to be a fake. Iran said it [...]

Daily Caller: Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s office announced on Thursday morning that it has 73 cosponsors on its House of Representatives resolution of “no confidence” in Attorney General Eric Holder’s ability to serve. Between the 59 congressmen demanding that Holder resign and those who have signed onto Gosar’s resolution, there are now a total [...]

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The Hill: House and Senate negotiators on Thursday night reached a tentative agreement on a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee announced. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said he expected the conference report to be filed later Thursday for a vote in both [...]

Washington Times: Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year. That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with civil fraud, saying they misled the government and taxpayers about risky subprime mortgages the mortgage giants held during the housing bust. Those charged include the agencies’ two former CEOs, Fannie’s Daniel Mudd and Freddie’s [...]

HOUSTON (AP) – Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller “God is Not Great,” died Thursday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62. Hitchens death was announced in a statement from Conde Nast, [...]

I suspected that this might have been the case – the story never really passed the smell test. Still, one is left to wonder: How did the machine come down in one piece? Other drones are programmed to return to home base during loss of communication, not land wherever might be closest…especially if that might [...]

New York Post: A leader of Occupy Wall Street abruptly quit his job as a city public school teacher after getting caught red-handed falsifying time sheets, The Post has learned. Former South Brooklyn Community HS science teacher Justin Wedes, who often rails against corporate greed and corruption, “cut and pasted’’ the signature of a supervisor [...]

Unfortunately for Mueller, he’s a dollar short and a day late – it has already been revealed that the weapon exists, and was provided by the FBI under Operation Fast & Furious to the shooter, who happens to be a confidential informant for the FBI CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday [...]

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Washington Times: The U.S. military’s fast-approaching Dec. 31 exit from Iraq, which has no way to defend its airspace, puts Israel in a better place strategically to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iraq has yet to assemble a force of jet fighters, and since the shortest route for Israeli strike fighters to Iran is through Iraqi [...]

Bloomberg News: Philip Falcone’s proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service caused interference to 75 percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test, according to a draft summary of results. The results from testing conducted Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 show that “millions of fielded GPS units are not compatible” with the planned nationwide [...]