Washington Times: Al Qaeda and other terrorists are trying to infiltrate the U.S. armed forces, which makes military facilities in the U.S. dangerous for American troops, lawmakers said Wednesday. “The Department of Defense considers the U.S. homeland the most dangerous place for a G.I. outside of foreign war zones — and the top threat they [...]
Fox News: Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation’s Armed Forces at home. During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced [...]
occupyfdsf on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free SFGate: Occupy San Francisco demonstrators clashed with police Wednesday night after they returned to Justin Herman Plaza following the clearing of their encampment by police in an early morning raid. About a half dozen Occupy protesters were arrested and later released during the evening, but police eventually pulled back [...]
CBS: Nine students at Dean College have been expelled after a student was beaten up in an attack that was recorded on video. It happened on the campus in Franklin Friday. The disturbing video posted online shows a young man confronting another man. Moments later, the first man punches the other, knocking him to the [...]
WAPost: The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show. The landfill dumping was concealed from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a [...]
Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page: For anyone following the Obama administration’s scandalous cluster-of-an-operation Fast & Furious, which resulted in the deaths of innocent people, please see the article excerpted below. (And in my humble opinion, I do believe the anti-2nd Amendment characters working in the Obama administration purposefully used their Fast & Furious gun walking operation [...]
CSMonitor: Has Mexico become a major player in unraveling international plots? The Mexican government today is touting its role in helping thwart an attempt by Saadi Qaddafi, one of the sons of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, to enter the country under a false name and take up residence in a wealthy resort on [...]
ibtimes: In a ridiculously repressive and absurd proposal, an Islamic cleric residing in Europe has said in a ruling that women should not touch or be anywhere close to bananas and cucumbers, in order to avoid “sexual thoughts”. An unnamed sheikh was quoted in a religious publication, el-Senousa News, as saying that if a woman [...]
CNN: The suspect in the slaying of a 7-year-old Georgia girl worked in the apartment complex where she lived, investigators said Wednesday. Authorities arrested maintenance worker Ryan Brunn, 20, on Wednesday afternoon. He is charged with killing 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who was last seen alive Friday near a playground at the apartment complex in Canton, [...]
TV Line: Fly your flag at half mast: M*A*S*H’s Col. Sherman T. Potter, Harry Morgan, died on Wednesday morning. The actor, who was 96, appeared in more than 100 movies, among them High Noon, Inherit the Wind and How the West Was Won (as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, no less). He also appeared frequently on [...]
FoxNews: The New York Police Department is pushing back against calls for a federal probe into allegations of excessive force at the Occupy Wall Street protests, claiming the department “accommodated lawful protest” and made arrests when unlawful conduct was observed. In a letter dated Tuesday, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called on U.S. Attorney General Eric [...]
The Heartland: According to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare has spent more than $240 million of taxpayer money on penis pumps for elderly men over the past decade, and will surpass a quarter of a billion dollars this year for costs since 2001. The cost to taxpayers for [...]
Though the media is trying to portray this as a “harsh” sentence, it is less than half of what federal law mandated Associated Press: Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for [...]
Ottawa Citizen: General Motors attempted to clarify last week conflicting reports on whether the automaker was willing to buy back Chevy Volts from owners worried about battery safety. “The program we put in place (earlier this week) hasn’t changed,” said Faye Roberts, GM Canada spokeswoman. “We’re going to reach out to our Volt customers and [...]
This piece of machinery was designed with slide rules and manages to travel flawlessly to the edge of our solar system, yet GM and Chevy cannot manage to produce a car that doesn’t burst into flames… The Telegraph: The spacecraft is close to leaving the Solar System and into the uncharted territory of the Milky [...]
