CNN is reporting that the death toll from today’s massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma is now at least 91. That’s 40 more dead than they had been previously reported, with scores of people – many of them children – still missing. Here is the earlier report: Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) — Rescue workers raced against time [...]
CNN’s Jake Tapper has details on the Obama administration scandal of the day, this one based off of yet another Inspector General report. The U.S. Marshal Service had been “unable to locate” two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” states the public summary of an interim Justice [...]
Real, as in “your pay is effectively being cut by 20% from July through September”… Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced yesterday that cuts due to sequestration will require DoD to reduce spending for civilian employees in order to meet required budget cuts. Hagel delivered the following message on civilian furloughs: “As you are fully [...]
Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most visible stars, writes in a New York Times editorial about a very private medical decision she managed to keep secret. MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold [...]
ABC News has more details on the IRS inspector general report about the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. Mary Katherine Hamm at HotAir detailed the intrusive questioning last week. The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS [...]
“It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic.“ A long-time Capital Hill Democrat (as told to Jennifer Rubin) commenting on Thursday’s dismal performance by Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearings to be the next Secretary of Defense.
The gun grabbers want sales of ammunition limited, and in at least one case it’s starting to happen – just not as a way to disarm the public as they had hoped. (Reuters) – Walmart has started to limit sales of ammunition to three boxes per customer per day due to limited supplies, a spokeswoman [...]
The Washington Post notes that the Obama administration is squeezing current and former federal officials to find out who talked to The New York Post about Stuxnet. Federal investigators looking into disclosures of classified information about a cyberoperation that targeted Iran’s nuclear program have increased pressure on current and former senior government officials suspected of [...]
“Twitter has become like high school, where the mean kids say something hurtful to boost their self-esteem and to see if others will laugh and join in.” Matt Lewis, writing in The Week, on why an early adopter now hates Twitter.
It’s Immigration Reform day!!! We’ve been down this road before though. 2007 (abridged): Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Accomplish Five Clear Objectives 1. Securing The Border Under The Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill, Temporary Worker And Z Visas Will Not Be Issued Until Meaningful Border Security And Worksite Enforcement Benchmarks Are Met. 2. Holding Employers Accountable For [...]
Sports Illustrated has a fascinating look at the shadowy underworld of sports science con men who are peddling just about anything they can think of to desperate players. If you thought Manti Te’o was naive for falling for the fake girlfriend hoax, he’ll fit right in as a professional athlete as his brethren are trying [...]
Well this is interesting… The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions. If adopted by the organization’s board of directors, it would represent a [...]
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is in favor of getting AK-47′s and AR-15′s off of the streets, but he knows that they’re not the real problem. From The New York Post: The nation’s looming assault-weapons ban is plain common sense, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday — but the city’s real enemy is illegal handguns. “For [...]
Unless you are a working girl in a town with a totally corrupt police department, meeting a “john” at a police station is going to turn out poorly. Such is the case for Portland, Oregon prostitute Christal Smith. From KATU: An undercover street crimes detective had been communicating with a woman online through an internet [...]
When you compare government spending to a fictitious GDP figure things don’t look so bad according to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. The crucial thing to understand here is that you do need to take the state of the business cycle into account; it’s not enough simply to do what Nate Silver, for example, [...]
If you were thinking that someone should have trademarked the terms “Harbowl” or “The Harbaugh Bowl,” you’re a little late to the party. Someone got that bright idea last year, when the possibility of a the San Francisco 49ers (coached by Jim Harbaugh) and the Baltimore Ravens (coached by John Harbaugh) were potential opponents, before [...]
From The Boston Globe: Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, is accused of assaulting the child on Jan. 14 and inflicting severe head injuries, District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.’s office said in a statement. The child, whom authorities did not identify, died at Boston Children’s Hospital two days after the alleged assault. “This is an extremely [...]
“To address the most significant event of the weekend, I love her bangs,” President Obama said. “She looks good. She always looks good.” He’s her husband, and he’s obviously well-trained, because that’s exactly what he’s supposed to say. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m still of the mind that bangs are still the province of younger [...]
Well this is interesting… (CNN) — A New York newspaper removed an interactive map from its website following a public outcry over the revealing of names and addresses of handgun permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties, the publisher said Friday. The newspaper last month defended the online information culled from public records, but The [...]
From Brietbart editor Ben Shapiro’s appearance on Piers Morgan’s barely seen CNN show last week: MORGAN: You genuinely believe your own government is going to turn on you in a way that you require an AR-15 to challenge them? You really believe that will happen in modern-day America? Is that what you think? SHAPIRO: They [...]
They’re paying that astronomical amount because the Chicago Police Department arrested Christina Eilman at Midway Airport in 2006 as she had a bipolar meltdown, held her overnight before releasing her into a high-crime area of Chicago where she was gang raped then thrown out of a seventh floor window. (AP) CHICAGO – The parents of [...]
Australian Matt Corby’s photo (shown above) of a Subway footlong sub that didn’t quite measure up went viral on Facebook yesterday, garnering more than 118,000 “likes” in just 24 hours, and inspired countless others to break out their tape measures. The New York Post surveyed Manhattan Subway restaurants and found that four out of seven [...]
Mallory Hagen was crowned Miss America last week. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was born in Tennessee and raised in Alabama. Apparently that ties her to segregation and Jim Crow laws. At least that’s what Blain Robert, an assistant professor of history at California State University, Fresno writing in The New York Times [...]
Deadspin broke the news that broke the Internet this afternoon that Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te’o’s from Notre Dame’s famed dead girlfriend was a long running and elaborate hoax. It’s a very complicated story, but was summarized by Deadspin writers Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey in these paragraphs: There was no Lennay Kekua. Lennay Kekua [...]
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