Oct 30, 2009 22 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Staten Island Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 37-year-old wife from New Brighton tried to slit her husband’s throat as he slept because he was not the devout Muslim she believed she married, and pressured her to eat pork and drink alcohol, authorities allege. In a rambling, four-page handwritten confession, Rabia Sarwar laid out the “mental and ...
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
LA Times: Reporting from Paris - A French court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology here of fraud, fining the branch $888,000 for swindling former members, but stopped short of shutting down the group. French Scientology leader Alain Rosenberg was also convicted of fraud and received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of ...
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2009 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: A gunshot was fired at the New Jersey home of CNN's Lou Dobbs after a series of threatening phone calls earlier this month, the host told listeners on his nationally syndicated radio show. Dobbs, a fervent proponent of U.S. border enforcement, told listeners of "The Lou Dobbs Show" on Monday that the incident is part ...
Continue ReadingOct 28, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates. The president spoke of a nation becoming a place where "we're all free to live and love as we see fit." The new law expands federal ...
Continue ReadingOct 28, 2009 21 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Editor's Note: This may or may not be the actual mosque in question. Detroit News: Detroit -- The leader of a black separatist Detroit mosque was shot and killed Wednesday during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 12 and the death of an FBI dog. At least six of those charged -- who face ...
Continue ReadingOct 28, 2009 15 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BBC: The nephew of the interim President of Honduras Roberto Micheletti has been found dead in what the police are calling an execution-style killing. Enzo Micheletti's body was discovered on Sunday in woodland near Choloma, 250 km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Police say his hands were tied behind his back and his body was riddled with bullets. There ...
Continue ReadingOct 26, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
IBD Editorials: State lawmakers who accepted federal stimulus dollars this year may have traded their birthright for a pot of stew. Take the state of Washington. Legislators here faced an appalling $9 billion budget shortfall in 2009, which they "solved" using just about every budget gimmick in the book. They raided various dedicated accounts, drained the ...
Continue ReadingOct 26, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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Continue ReadingOct 24, 2009 77 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal guidelines at hospitals and speed up how infected people might receive treatment in a disaster. The declaration that Obama signed late Friday means Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules ...
Continue ReadingOct 24, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—There's nothing neutral in the battle between AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. over the future of the Internet. Google, the powerhouse of Silicon Valley, and AT&T, champion for the old-line phone industry, are marshaling political allies, lobbyists and—in AT&T's case—labor unions for a fight over proposed "net neutrality" rules that could affect tens ...
Continue ReadingOct 24, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Dallas News: Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty. Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does ...
Continue ReadingOct 23, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNN: NEW YORK -- New York public health workers will no longer be required to be vaccinated against both the seasonal and H1N1 flu virus, state officials announced Thursday, prompted by a vaccine shortage. A statement from Gov. David Paterson announced the policy change on behalf of State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines. Daines had originally ...
Continue ReadingOct 23, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fox News: Senate Democrats used a must-pass military spending bill to push through a controversial measure Thursday extending hate-crime protection to gays. The bill, known as the Matthew Shepard Act, named for the gay Wyoming college student murdered 11 years ago, was opposed by conservatives because of language they said targets clergy and others who oppose homosexuality ...
Continue ReadingOct 22, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fox News: At 8 a.m. Sunday the population of Kinsman, Ill., stood at 109. An hour later it nearly doubled, as upwards of 100 federal agents and police swooped in on the tiny, rural community. And no one seems to know why.
Continue ReadingOct 22, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
I know what you're thinking... They make motorized La-Z-Boys?!?! DULUTH, Minn. — A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers. Prosecutors ...
Continue ReadingOct 21, 2009 21 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Washington Times: Maintaining his stature as one of the most forecful defenders of the Bush Administration's defense policies former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Obama of committing "libel" against CIA interrorgators in a wide-ranging address on foreign policy issues at the Center for Security Policy Wednesday evening. Mr. Cheney’s criticized the Obama White House ...
Continue ReadingOct 21, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Creeping Sharia: If you don’t want your kids to become Westernized, why come to live in the West? A better, more affluent, and safe Western life? hat tip Larry Faleh Hassan Almaleki reportedly threatened his daughter for becoming ‘too Westernized.’ (KFYI) Peoria police are looking for a Glendale man who allegedly ran over his 20-year-old daughter and another ...
Continue ReadingOct 21, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNBC: Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in the government’s financial rescue, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in the decision said on Wednesday. Under the plan, ...
Continue ReadingOct 21, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WBZ-TV: A man from Sudbury was arrested Wednesday on federal terrorism charges for allegedly planning attacks inside and outside the United States – including a plot to attack people at a mall. THE ARREST 27-year-old Tarek Mehanna was taken into custody at his parents' home in Fairhaven Circle by federal agents and Sudbury police early this morning. ...
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