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Oklahoma druggist arrested for killing holdup man
2009-05-30 19:47:00 Oklahoma druggist arrested for killing holdup man OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore’s security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five ... More About: Oklahoma , Arrested , Amendment , The N , Joe Horn
American capitalism gone with a whimper
2009-05-30 05:39:00 American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the ... More About: American , Capitalism
Birth certificate issue No. 1 at Fox News
2009-05-29 20:36:00 Birth certificate issue No. 1 at Fox News WASHINGTON ? Barack Obama ’s elusive long-form birth certificate that would establish his eligibility to serve as president as a “natural born citizen” is the hottest discussion topic at the Fox News Channel’s website. Under the heading, “Should Obama release his birth certificate? Or is this old news?,” nearly 1,000 ... More About: Robert Gates , Birth
Obama calling for better security for computers
2009-05-29 18:12:00 Obama calling for better security for computers WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is calling digital security a top priority, whether it’s guarding the computer systems that keep the lights on in the city and direct airliners to the right runway or those protecting customers who pay their bills online. To oversee an enhanced security system for ... More About: Security , Computers , Obama , Calling
NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight
2009-05-29 00:16:00 NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight A flag fight is brewing in southern Florida. Members of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP want the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway, and they will meet Thursday to decide whether to boycott a NASCAR race slated there for November. Debra Toomer, the branch’s chairwoman of press ... More About: The N , Racism
The American Conservative Party
2009-05-28 19:27:00 The Conservative s of this nation, ALL of the Conservatives of this nation, MUST come together to save this nation. If we don’t, we soon won’t have a nation worth saving! We must consolidate our efforts and unite under one CONSERVATIVE banner, and for me, the banner above is it! We have got to organize, we have ... More About: Party , American , Conservative party
National security adviser: US safer under Obama
2009-05-28 06:03:00 National security adviser: US safer under Obama WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama’s national security adviser laid out a sweeping rebuttal Wednesday to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s charge that America is less safe under the new administration. Pointing to increases in defense spending, efforts to get out of Iraq and revamp the strategy for Afghanistan, and ... More About: Security , National , National Security
Woman Upset After American Flag Taken Down At Work
2009-05-27 20:02:00 Woman Upset After American Flag Taken Down At Work MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office? For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in ... More About: Woman , American Flag
Sotomayor nominated to high court - first Hispanic
2009-05-26 20:01:00 Sotomayor nominated to high court - first Hispanic WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, praising her as “an inspiring woman” with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the Constitution wisely. Obama said Sotomayor has more experience as a ... More About: Bush , George Bush , Harriet Miers , High
Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery
2009-05-26 00:24:00 Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama avoided a racial controversy on his first Memorial Day in office by sending wreaths to separate memorials for Confederate soldiers and for blacks who fought against them during the Civil War. Last week, a group of about 60 professors petitioned the White House, ... More About: Obama
The Old Man?
2009-05-25 18:10:00 I didn’t write this, I received this in an email. It may be an *Urban Legand*, maybe not. In any case, I don’t care. Just enjoy it for what it is and remember those that gave ALL they had for this nation. The Old Man… As I came out of the supermarket that sunny day, pushing ... More About: God , Country , Honor , Duty
Powell to Republicans: Listen to moderates, too
2009-05-25 01:58:00 Powell to Republicans : Listen to moderates, too WASHINGTON ? The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party played out across the airwaves Sunday, with Colin Powell and Tom Ridge denouncing shrill and judgmental voices they say are steering the GOP too far right. Karl Rove challenged Powell to lay out his vision and ... More About: Dick Cheney , Cain
At least 11 wounded in fight in Vienna temple
2009-05-24 19:30:00 At least 11 wounded in fight in Vienna temple VIENNA (AP) - Worshippers of Indian origin armed with knives and at least one gun fought one another in a temple in the Austrian capital on Sunday, and at least 11 were wounded, police and ambulance staff said. Police spokesman Michael Takacs said the brawl occurred in ... More About: Religion , Fight , Temple , Sikhism
House rejects probe into Pelosi CIA claims
2009-05-23 21:20:00 House rejects probe into Pelosi CIA claims WASHINGTON ? House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects. Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina joined Democrats in voting 252-172 ... More About: House , Claims , Probe
Dead People Being Sent Stimulus Checks
2009-05-22 23:37:00 Dead People Being Sent Stimulus Checks The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. Thousands of Americans are receiving federal stimulus checks in the mail, this week. Only problem: many of them are deceased. Recently, a ... More About: Dead , Dead People
First death under new Washington suicide law
2009-05-22 21:30:00 First death under new Washington suicide law OLYMPIA, Wash. - A 66-year-old woman who had stage 4 pancreatic cancer is the first person to die under Washington state?s new assisted suicide law. Linda Fleming of Sequim died Thursday night after taking drugs prescribed under the ?Death with Dignity? law that took effect in March. Assisted suicide ... More About: Suicide , Assisted Suicide
Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo
2009-05-21 16:48:00 Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box - at home and abroad - on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and will be trying Thursday to use a major address on national security to work out of the tight spot. Obama takes on the explosive topic ... More About: Political , Obama
Catholic Church shamed by Irish abuse report
2009-05-21 02:44:00 Catholic Church shamed by Irish abuse report DUBLIN (AP) - After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church -run reform schools for Ireland’s castaway children. The 2,600-page report painted the most detailed and damning portrait yet of church-administered abuse in a country grown weary of ... More About: Religion , Abuse , Report
NYT: Taliban may be acquiring U.S. arms
2009-05-20 20:47:00 NYT: Taliban may be acquiring U.S. arms KABUL - Insurgents in Afghanistan , fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces. Arms and ordnance collected from dead insurgents hint at one possible reason: Of 30 rifle ... More About: Iraq
Local officials to ask senators for border security funds
2009-05-20 17:57:00 Local officials to ask senators for border security funds WASHINGTON (AP) ? A mayor whose town sits on the U.S. border with Mexico wants federal lawmakers to provide more money for border agents and dogs to help curb cross-border trafficking of drugs, guns and humans. Chad Foster, mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, says President Obama’s budget ... More About: Security , George Bush , Barack Obama , Local , Border Security
Sen. Reid botches 3 subjects at news conference
2009-05-20 04:43:00 Sen. Reid botches 3 subjects at news conference WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference - including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members. The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. ... More About: News , Politics , Nancy Pelosi , Bill Clinton , Joe Biden
Sheriff: La. 8th-grader planned school shooting
2009-05-19 02:29:00 Sheriff: La. 8th-grader planned school shooting LAROSE, La. (AP) - A Louisiana middle school student who stormed into a classroom Monday and fired a gunshot over a teacher’s head, then shot himself in a bathroom had detailed plans for a rampage in a journal and suicide note, authorities said. The 15-year-old student, whose name was not ... More About: School , Gun Violence , Sheriff , Shooting
Scholars Plan U.S. First Four-Year Islamic College
2009-05-18 18:41:00 Scholars Plan U.S. First Four-Year Islamic College PLAINSBORO, N.J. ? A group of American Muslims, led by two prominent scholars, is moving closer to fulfilling a vision of founding the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, what some are calling a “Muslim Georgetown.” Advisers to the project have scheduled a June vote to ... More About: Scholars
Designer of POW MIA Flag, Newt Heisley, Dead at 88
2009-05-18 02:38:00 Designer of POW MIA Flag , Newt Heisley, Dead at 88 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? Newt Heisley, the designer of the POW/MIA flag adopted by Congress in 1990 as a symbol of the nation’s concern for those missing during military actions in Southeast Asia, died. He was 88. Donna Allison, Heisley’s fiancee, told The Associated Press Heisley died ... More About: Designer
Texas primary could help define GOP of future
2009-05-16 11:08:00 Texas primary could help define GOP of future AUSTIN ? As the GOP struggles nationally to redefine itself, the debate over what it means to be a Republican is playing out in Texas, too, through Kay Bailey Hutchison’s challenge to Gov. Rick Perry . Hutchison says the “core principles” that will help the party grow are not social, ... More About: Future , Texas , Primary , The Dallas Morning News
GOP backs CIA in dispute with Pelosi
2009-05-15 20:11:00 GOP backs CIA in dispute with Pelosi WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Republicans are rushing to defend the CIA after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the spy agency of misleading her and other lawmakers about its use of waterboarding during the Bush administration. The issue of what did the speaker know about the interrogation method - and ... More About: Dispute
The TEA Party is brewing again!
2009-05-15 00:48:00 The TEA Party is brewing again! Today the planners and organizers of the Rowlett Texas TEA Party got together and began the solidification of our program for the weekend of July 4th. We are looking forward to an even BIGGER event than we had on TAX DAY, April 15th! If your local groups aren’t already at work ...
Breaking News: The TRUTH about Nancy Pelosi!
2009-05-14 18:35:00 Breaking News : The TRUTH about Nancy Pelosi ! This just in to the TexasFred News Network - We have irrefutable proof - How to tell if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is lying! Her lips are ALMOST MOVING! The botox has frozen the expressionless face, this is an OLD picture of the witch from San Fransissyco, I don’t ... More About: Truth , Breaking News
Sen. John Cornyn rejects Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions Obama accusation
2009-05-14 01:38:00 Sen. John Cornyn rejects Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions Obama accusation WASHINGTON ? The Texan who leads the Senate Republican campaign effort rejected Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions? allegation that President Barack Obama is intentionally sabotaging the U.S. economy. ?I don?t know where he?s coming from on it,? Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday. ?I?d like some sort of ...
The Pied Piper of Washington DC
More articles from this author:2009-05-13 19:04:00 The Pied Piper of Washington DC There was a Pied Piper who said, ?We live in the greatest country in the world. Come help me change it!? *And the people said, ?Change is good!? Then he said, ?We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,?? *And the people said ?Sock it to them!? and “redistribute their wealth.? And then ... More About: Barack Obama , Capital Gains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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