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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more
  • Delta Airlines Accused of Hacking Passenger Rights Group

    Saturday, October 17, 2009
    A consumer advocate is suing Delta Air Lines for allegedly hacking computer information she was compiling to win passage of an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights in Congress. Kathleen Hanni, founder of Flyersrights.org, says the computer infiltratio...   read more
  • Louisiana Justice of the Peace Refuses to Marry Interracial Couple

    Saturday, October 17, 2009
    Despite the presence of a mixed-race president in the White House, Keith Bardwell believes interracial marriages are a bad idea because of how children from such unions can be mistreated by society. So the justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Paris...   read more
  • Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Cost U.S. $15 Million an Hour

    Friday, October 16, 2009
    From a purely fiscal advantage, it’s not difficult to understand why some in Washington are calling for a shift in war policy in Afghanistan and placing the onus on the Afghan army instead of America’s sophisticated, and expensive, military. The D...   read more
  • House Financial Committee Works on Bill to Regulate Their Own Campaign Contributors

    Friday, October 16, 2009
    President Barack Obama has said he wants to create a new consumer protection agency that will regulate the financial industry when it comes to credit cards, insurance and mortgages. But this new government body can only be created with help from C...   read more
  • Reporters Forbidden from Photographing Dead Soldiers in Eastern Afghanistan

    Friday, October 16, 2009
    The U.S. military has been banning media traveling with soldiers in eastern Afghanistan from taking photos or video of American soldiers killed in action. The change in policy was quietly implemented in early September following the controversial ...   read more
  • Web Founder Apologizes for “//”

    Friday, October 16, 2009
    It was all so unnecessary, it turns out. Those wasted seconds, collectively adding up to hours and days, typing in the two forward slashes (“//”) as part of website addresses. That’s what Internet guru Tim Berners-Lee has to say now, looking back ...   read more
  • Judge Closes Blackwater Manslaughter Hearings to Press and Public

    Friday, October 16, 2009
    In the name of granting the defendants a fair trial, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina decided on Wednesday to close the pretrial hearings of five Blackwater guards involved in a Baghdad shooting in 2007 that left 14 Iraqis dead. Urbina said he w...   read more
  • Obama Administration Reawakens Safety Agencies Frozen by Bush

    Thursday, October 15, 2009
    After two terms of a Bush presidency that was reluctant, if not hostile, towards regulatory action, the Obama administration is unleashing a vigorous assault on businesses selling dangerous or illegal products and services.   At the Food and Dru...   read more
  • Congress Moves to Censor Torture Photos by Ceding Power to Executive Branch

    Thursday, October 15, 2009
    President Barack Obama’s pledge to keep hidden photos of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is moving closer to becoming law. Administration officials recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone weighing in on the matter in the hope that...   read more
  • VA Approves Agent Orange-Parkinson’s Disability Claims

    Thursday, October 15, 2009
    Approximately 200,000 Vietnam veterans may soon be able to receive disability benefits for illnesses stemming from their exposure 40 years ago to Agent Orange. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to propose this week new rules that add Parkin...   read more
  • Stupid Criminal of the Month…Bragged of Fugitive Life on Facebook

    Thursday, October 15, 2009
    Maxi Sopo apparently never learned one of the basic rules of being a criminal on the run: keep a low profile. The 26-year-old from Cameroon decided to brag on Facebook about what a great time he was having in Mexico while hiding out from U.S. auth...   read more
  • Political Refugee Sues U.S. Branch of Chinese Bank over Torture

    Thursday, October 15, 2009
    Having failed to get the justice he sought in China, expatriate Liu Bo Shan has sued the recently opened New York branch of his former Chinese employer to prove his claims of being tortured for exposing corruption. Shan, who now lives in Flushing,...   read more
  • Obama Afghan Troop Increase is More than It Appears

    Wednesday, October 14, 2009
    Since President Barack Obama’s announcement in March that the United States would be sending additional soldiers to Afghanistan, the number repeatedly cited by administration officials has been 21,000. But in actuality the number heading overseas...   read more
  • Max Baucus, the Senator from Wellpoint

    Wednesday, October 14, 2009
    Conducting the nation’s business on Capitol Hill involves more than just the members of Congress. Behind every senator and representative are staffers upon whom lawmakers rely heavily to make decisions on important issues, such health care reform....   read more
  • Goldman Sachs Bonuses Expected to Double

    Wednesday, October 14, 2009
    Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, said recently he understands why people get so upset over the amount of bonuses awarded to those on Wall Street. Time will tell if Blankfein is still as understanding after Thursday, when news of his firm’s ...   read more
  • Kansas Salesman Claims He was Fired for Voting for Obama

    Wednesday, October 14, 2009
    Matthew Brandt, owner of KK Office Solutions in Kansas, did not favor the election of Barack Obama as president, and he let his employees know it. In an email to his workers on October 29, 2008, Brandt warned them “to rethink” their vote on Novemb...   read more
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