|
Latest Articles: United States News
State Asks Judge To Revoke George Zimmerman's Bond
Post Date: 2012-06-01 14:38:59 by Brian S
2 Comments
SANFORD – In an unexpected turn, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester is hearing argument about whether George Zimmerman's bond should be revoked in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In a new motion filed, prosecutors accused Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the judge during a bond hearing about money they collected for his defense. Prosecutors allege Zimmerman's wife knew about the donations her husband had collected through a PayPalaccount, but didn't mention the money at his bond hearing. Zimmerman's PayPal account collected more than $200,000, his attorney later revealed. "Defendant has intentionally deceived the court with the assistance of his wife," ...
Richard Land, Southern Baptist Leader, Reprimanded, Radio Show Cancelled For Trayvon Martin Comments
Post Date: 2012-06-01 12:21:24 by Brian S
2 Comments
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southern Baptist Convention's ethics chief has been reprimanded and his radio show canceled after he made inflammatory comments about the Trayvon Martin case. Among other things, Richard Land accused President Barack Obama and other black leaders of shamefully exploiting Martin's death for political gain. His comments upset many black Southern Baptist leaders, one of whom called for Land's resignation. The controversy got more intense when a blogger revealed that Land's commentary was copied nearly verbatim from an editorial in the Washington Times. After an investigation, the board of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission on ...
High-Profile Fla. Lawyer To Join Zimmerman Defense
Post Date: 2012-06-01 12:08:12 by Murron
2 Comments
High-Profile Fla. Lawyer To Join Zimmerman Defense A new attorney is joining the legal team representing George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin earlier this year. The Orlando Sentinel (http://thesent.nl/Jy1HKb) reports lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara plans to announce Friday that veteran Orlando attorney Donald R. West will join his team. West, who specializes in murder cases, has handled some of the most high-profile cases in central Florida over the past two decades. He represented Orlando music mogul Lou Pearlman on bank, mail and wire fraud charges. In 1998, he helped Joe "Crazy Joe" Spaziano get off death ...
54% of WI AFSCME employees voted with their feet in 2011.
Post Date: 2012-06-01 06:51:07 by CZ82
8 Comments
54% of WI AFSCME employees voted with their feet in 2011. Posted by Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 31st at 9:30AM EDT I am going to try to avoid too much hyperbole and sarcasm for this one; this is one time where the situation requires neither. When Scott Walker and other Republicans instituted labor union reforms in 2009, one of the basic planks of such reforms – the one that was quietly and viciously fought, tooth and nail, by the unions – was removal of mandatory dues collection for public sector union employees. In fact, from the union leaderships’ point of view this was THE reform that needed to be killed; if the Republicans had compromised on it then there probably ...
FEMA- 2 of their 3 predictions have come true-- San Francisco/LA is # 3 ??
Post Date: 2012-05-31 21:10:48 by whyofcourse
0 Comments
FEMA- 2 of their 3 predictions have come true-- San Francisco/LA is # 3 ?? Author: 62085 Category:(Conspiracy) Created:(9/6/2005 5:01:00 PM)This post has been Viewed (6422 times)In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States. The top three were a terrorist attack on New York, an earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane in New Orleans. The list was announced at a conference on Sept. 10. The next day was 9/11."This news is so incredible that we need to stop right here, so we can accurately understand what we have just been told. On September 10, 2001, FEMA accurately ...
Record-Setting NM Fire Spreading In All Directions
Post Date: 2012-05-31 17:42:47 by Brian S
2 Comments
REVERE, N.M.—A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview of things to come as states across the West contend with a dangerous recipe of wind, low humidity and tinder-dry fuels. The erratic Gila National Forest blaze grew overnight to more than 190,000 acres, or nearly 300 square miles, as it raced across the area's steep, ponderosa pine-covered hills and through its rugged canyons. More than 1,200 firefighters are at the massive blaze near the Arizona border, which has destroyed 12 cabins and a few small outbuildings, fire information officer Iris Estes ...
John Edwards 'Not Guilty' On One Count; Mistrial Declared On Remaining Charges
Post Date: 2012-05-31 17:34:46 by Brian S
6 Comments
(CBS News) After 9 days of deliberation, a jury has found John Edwards not guilty on one of six charges of campaign finance corruption brought against him. A mistrial has been declared on the other five counts. After initially announcing Thursday afternoon that it had reached a unanimous verdict on only one of six charges against Edwards, the judge sent the jury back to continue deliberations on the remaining five counts. Shortly after that, the jurors said they were deadlocked on those counts, at which point the judge announced a verdict of not guilty on the third count against Edwards, which charged that he had accepted and received illegal campaign contributions in 2008 from Rachel ...
House Shoots Down Ban on Sex-Selective Abortions
Post Date: 2012-05-31 15:12:04 by Brian S
5 Comments
The House defeated a bill today to ban sex-selective abortion, a controversial measure opposed by President Barack Obama and abortion rights activists. The legislation, first introduced by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) three years ago, would punish doctors with up to five years in prison for performing an abortion if the doctor knows it “is sought based on the sex or gender of the child.” The bill failed 246-168 under suspension of the rules. “Ours Members feel strongly about it,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters before the vote. “This is an important issue to the American people. This type of sex-selection, most Americans find pretty repulsive.” ...
Gunman kills four in separate Seattle shootings
Post Date: 2012-05-30 22:12:28 by CZ82
2 Comments
SEATTLE – The suspect in the fatal shooting of three people and wounding of two others at the Racer Cafe on Roosevelt Ave. was being treated Wednesday evening at Harborivew Medical Center for a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Earlier reports said the man had died. Our news partner, The Seattle Times, identifies the suspect as Ian Stawicki. His brother reportedly says that Stawicki suffers from mental illness Police believe the man is also reponsible for a separate fatal shooting at 8th and Seneca. "We feel very confident that we have the suspect in both incidents," Seattle Police Asst. Chief Nick Metz said. As a precaution, however, Seattle police said residents should ...
Top Half-Percent Who Pay No Taxes
Post Date: 2012-05-30 11:44:33 by Brian S
0 Comments
Just reaching the top 1 percent is passe. The real place to be is a more elite top 0.5 percent — the high-earners who pay no taxes. The club that made more than $200,000 in 2009 and paid absolutely nothing in U.S. income taxes had 20,752 members — among the nearly 4 million households with incomes above $200,000 — according to an Internal Revenue Service study. So how do they do it? In most cases, it’s a mix of tax breaks that combine to turn high gross incomes into negligible taxable income. That means some charitable contributions, some casualty and theft losses, some foreign tax credits and medical expenses. The percentages of non-payers are near all-time highs, ...
Judge shuts down mega-mosque construction
Post Date: 2012-05-30 07:50:21 by CZ82
6 Comments
Judge shuts down mega-mosque construction Court ruling says county avoided legal building-permit process Published: 10 hours ago Work on a mega-mosque already well along in the construction process in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been shut down – the existing building’s future uncertain – by a court’s ruling the county avoided the legal process required for granting building permission for the project. The ruling said the county’s actions effectively violated the state’s Open Meetings law during the time when the mega-structure was being approved. “The court finds that the action of the county was not sufficient to provide the type of notice to citizens ...
Does Obama really believe his own B.S.
Post Date: 2012-05-30 07:40:00 by CZ82
2 Comments
Does Obama really believe his own B.S. by Mickey Kaus Today’s NYT campaign notebook has Obama sluicing the controversial Nutting Marketwatch chart straight off the Internet into a campaign speech, in which he proclaims “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years.” (The exact sequence seems to be Nutting’s keyboard to Web to Carney to Obama to the world.) Obama’s instantaneous embrace of Nutting’s chart–a calculation so absurd even Ezra Klein tried to change the subject, since (among other things) it attributes all but $140 billion of increased 2009 spending most of Obama’s $800+ billion stimulus ...
Sex Selection Abortion in America
Post Date: 2012-05-30 07:34:40 by CZ82
0 Comments
Sex Selection Abortion in America Posted by Breanne Howe In the wake of Chen Guangcheng arriving safely in the United States, after years of persecution in China for his anti-abortion activism, The House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on H.R. 3541 (also known as the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act – PRENDA), a bill to ban sex-selection abortions in the United States. Although the US has strongly condemned China for their sex-selection abortion practices, only four states (AZ, OK, PA and IL) currently have laws banning the procedure. Sex-selection abortions have long been an issue around the globe, most notably in China and India, and studies show they are rampant in the US. A ...
Folk Musician Doc Watson Dies In Nc Hospital At 89; Style Influenced Folk Music For Decades
Post Date: 2012-05-29 20:27:08 by Brian S
12 Comments
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his management company. He was 89. Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization. Arthel “Doc” Watson’s mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo. His fast playing could intimidate other musicians, even his own ...
Social Security Disability Seen Insolvent In 4 Years Unless Congress Votes
Post Date: 2012-05-29 20:09:23 by Brian S
0 Comments
A U.S. government entitlement program is headed for insolvency in four years, and it’s not the one members of Congress are talking about most. The Social Security disability program’s trust fund is projected to run out of cash far sooner than the better-known Social Security retirement plan or Medicare. That will trigger a 21 percent cut in benefits to 11 million Americans -- disabled people, their spouses and children -- many of whom rely on the program to stay out of poverty. “It’s really striking how rapidly this is growing, how big it’s become and how D.C. is just afraid of it,” said Mark Duggan, a University of Pennsylvania economist and adviser to the ...
Wyoming Republican Running For US Senate Says He Agrees With Beliefs Of Hitler
Post Date: 2012-05-29 12:26:33 by Brian S
3 Comments
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Thomas Bleming, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wyoming, has posted anti-Semitic videos on his Facebook page. Among Bleming’s postings is a video he labeled “the eternal Jew, updated for 2010.” “The Eternal Jew” is a notorious Nazi propaganda film that described Jews as “parasites” intent on world domination. The video posted by Bleming, who announced last week that he would challenge incumbent Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) for his seat, appears to use the original script with contemporary images. It also includes images of Jews who have been convicted of crimes, among them Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff and Dr. Baruch Goldstein, who ...
Fukushima Radiation Seen In Tuna Off California
Post Date: 2012-05-29 12:07:39 by Brian S
2 Comments
WASHINGTON | Mon May 28, 2012 3:16pm EDT (Reuters) - Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds across the Pacific Ocean faster than wind or water can. Small amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were detected in 15 tuna caught near San Diego in August 2011, about four months after these chemicals were released into the water off Japan's east coast, scientists reported on Monday. That is months earlier than wind and water currents brought debris from the plant to waters off Alaska and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The amount of ...
Ron Paul festival pitched before GOP convention (Liberty Unleashed)
Post Date: 2012-05-29 10:18:38 by Hondo68
0 Comments
TAMPA -- Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are negotiating to hold a three-day festival of music, entertainment and activism at the Florida State Fairgrounds immediately before the Republican National Convention. Paul Festival 2012 would run from Aug. 24-26, ending the day before the convention begins. Details like ticket prices and who would be on stage have not been announced, but the festival could draw 20,000 or more people a day, estimated Deborah Robinet, an organizer who lives near San Diego . "Ron Paul supporters are very enthusiastic, and there's going to be a bunch of them in Tampa," said Robinet, one of five directors of the nonprofit group Liberty ...
West Point Is Divided on a War Doctrine’s Fate
Post Date: 2012-05-28 12:01:41 by Brian S
1 Comments
WEST POINT, N.Y. — For two centuries, the United States Military Academy has produced generals for America’s wars, among them Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, George S. Patton and David H. Petraeus. It is where President George W. Bush delivered what became known as his pre-emption speech, which sought to justify the invasion of Iraq, and where President Obama told the nation he was sending an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. World Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Enlarge This Image Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times The United States gained ...
Rudy Giuliani: Mitt Romney’s record is great, just not compared to mine as NYC mayor
Post Date: 2012-05-27 21:17:23 by buckeroo
2 Comments
Rudy Giuliani’s “personal ego” is already getting in the way as he campaigns for Mitt Romney. New York City's former mayor said Sunday that Romney's record might not hold up against his own — but it's still better than President Obama’s list of accomplishments. Rudy Giuliani, a former presidential contender and a late-commer to the Romney camp, said the Massachusetts governor's economic record only looked paltry when compared to his own. "Well, there's a certain amount of personal ego in that," Giuliani said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "Maybe it was circumstances or whatever, but I had massive reduction ...
Gay Students Graduate Openly At Military Academies
Post Date: 2012-05-27 14:14:19 by Brian S
3 Comments
Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events. For the first time, gay students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were able to take a same-sex date to the academy's Ring Dance for third-year midshipmen. The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., officially recognized a club for gay students this month. And gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are relieved ...
Family Says Auction Of WWII Relics Is A 'Gross Dishonor'
Post Date: 2012-05-27 14:11:54 by Brian S
0 Comments
EMMETT -- Memorabilia from an Idaho World War II Veteran will be on the auction block in a week. His relatives want to keep it in the family or in a museum. The late Colonel Charles Wesley Sawyer has deep roots in the Gem State. He was born to homesteaders in Emmett, went to school in Emmett and studied at the University of Idaho before volunteering to serve in the military. "He was one of a handful of American volunteer group people, also known as Flying Tigers," said his only living child, Charles Robert Sawyer. Colonel Sawyer returned to the U.S. in 1943. In 1970, he married Edith, his second wife. Sawyer died just eight years later. "[Edith] received all his assets ...
Almost Half Of New Vets Seek Disability Benefits
Post Date: 2012-05-27 14:09:47 by Brian S
1 Comments
America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. That is more than double the estimate of 21 percent who filed such claims after the Gulf War in the early 1990s, top government officials told The Associated Press. What's more, these new veterans are claiming eight to nine ailments on average, and the most recent ones over the last year are claiming 11 to 14. By comparison, Vietnam ...
RPD cops said bad things about Barry & Moochelle during visit
Post Date: 2012-05-27 09:31:45 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
Source: RPD cops made ‘inappropriate comments’ about Obama, first ladyVIDEO RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) - In his re-election bid for the White House, President Barack Obama stopped at VCU’s Siegel Center earlier this month where thousands of people flocked to hear him speak. But a source within the Richmond Police Department (RPD), who does not want to reveal his identity for fear of retribution, is blowing the whistle on the department. The man tells CBS 6 News’ Sandra Jones that inappropriate comments were made by a 20-year police veteran, against the president and first lady. “There was an officer providing exterior security to the President on that day on the phone ...
Under Obama: 30 Worst Months of Employment in the Past 25 Years
Post Date: 2012-05-26 17:19:08 by CZ82
2 Comments
Under Obama: 30 Worst Months of Employment in the Past 25 Years 8:05 AM, May 23, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes monthly tallies for the employment-population ratio. That stat shows something rather straightforward: Among those who are living in America and are free to pursue employment, what percentage are employed? (The bureau excludes those who are under 16 years old, are active-duty military, or are — in the bureau’s own words — “inmates of institutions (for example, penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged),” from its tallies.) Over the past quarter of a century (a total of 300 ...
Latest [Newer] 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 [Older]
|
