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The Occupy and Tea Party Beer Summit

The Occupy and Tea Party Beer Summit

Watch: The Occupy and Tea Party Beer Summit | Mother Jones. How do you get tea partiers and occupiers at the same table? Buy lots of beer. It certainly worked at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation’s...

April 17, 2012 9:45 am / no comments

 

Children of Indian couple and Polish Couple kidnapped by Norway govt agency

Children of Indian couple and Polish Couple kidnapped by Norway govt agency

Amazingly Xenophobia and a misunderstanding of the rights of international citizens is alive and well in Norway. The numbers are like this: About 60,000 children are born in Norway each year. The CPS starts about 30,000 investigations annually....

March 26, 2012 1:57 pm / no comments

 

BBC News – ‘Ugliest dog’ in the world, Yoda, dies at 15

BBC News – ‘Ugliest dog’ in the world, Yoda, dies at 15

BBC News – ‘Ugliest dog’ in the world, Yoda, dies at 15. So sad to see him go, And in the prime of his youth no less! Spread the Love:FacebookTwitterGoogle +1EmailMoreLinkedInDiggPrintRedditStumbleUpon (function(d, s, id)...

March 15, 2012 10:37 am / no comments

 

Lennox Little League in jeopardy after returning strip club money – latimes.com

Lennox Little League in jeopardy after returning strip club money – latimes.com

Watch Video Here Lennox Little League in jeopardy after returning strip club money – latimes.com. This is a real predicament. Either give back the money that all those men paid for lap dances, or kill a little league season for dozens...

March 13, 2012 10:32 pm / no comments

 

U.S. News – Drunk buggy driving? Amish nabbed after hitting cop car

U.S. News – Drunk buggy driving? Amish nabbed after hitting cop car

U.S. News – Drunk buggy driving? Amish nabbed after hitting cop car. Drunk Driving Amish hit Cop Car?! I am assuming the only beings hurt here were probably the horses. Explain to me how they, sober as they were, did not see a cop car?...

March 12, 2012 11:38 am / no comments

 
 

 
 

RSS The Washington Post

  • Holder’s incorrect claim on the ‘Fast and Furious’ criminal citation decision May 17, 2013
    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.): “In the AP [Associated Press] case you have appointed Ronald Machen, and I’m sure he is a fine U.S. attorney, but can he be considered to be independent when in fact when this Congress held you in contempt he was the individual who refused, on your orders, to prosecute the case? If he will obey your orders in not living up to a […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • Barbara Boxer’s claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security May 16, 2013
    “I believe if we want to know what happened in Benghazi, it starts with the fact that there was not enough security. There was not enough security because the budget was cut.” — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), speech on the Senate floor, May 14, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • How many pages of regulations for ‘Obamacare’? May 15, 2013
    “Obamacare is fully implemented January 1st, even though the regulations haven’t been written yet. And Brian, we’ve got 33,000 pages of regulations that they’ve already written. If we stacked it up here, it would be seven feet tall.” Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • Obama’s claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’ May 14, 2013
    “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” — President Obama, remarks at a news conference, May 13, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • The claim that Senate Democrats have produced a ‘balanced budget’ May 13, 2013
    “I first want to thank the chair of our committee, the budget committee, for doing such a terrific job in bringing us all together. My colleagues on the committee, as we all know, we worked very, very hard together in order to be able to put together a balanced budget that reflects the values of the American people, that’s fair, that’s balanced in values and […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • An alternative explanation for the Benghazi talking points: Bureaucratic knife fight May 10, 2013
    From time to time, the Fact Checker writes an analytic look at news events, based on his three decades of experience covering diplomacy and politics, rather than a traditional fact check. This is one of those columns. Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • Coburn’s claim that violence in national parks has declined ‘85 percent’ because of guns May 10, 2013
    “Remember, in 2010, everybody said you can’t dare let guns go into the national parks. And of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.” — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” May 9, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • The Benghazi hearings: what’s new and what’s not May 9, 2013
    “I was stunned. My jaw dropped. And I was embarrassed” — Gregory Hicks, former U.S. deputy chief of mission to Libya, testifying on his reaction to U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice’s remarks on the terror attack in Benghazi, May 8, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • Cherry-picking one survey to discredit a survey of scientists on climate change May 8, 2013
    “There is also uncertainty regarding to what degree man is to blame for global warming. However, the claim that 98 percent of scientists agree that humans are the singular driver of climate change has been repeatedly discounted. This oft-cited statistic is based on an online survey with a sample size of only 77 people, and the survey didn’t even ask to what […]
    Glenn Kessler
  • The Benghazi talking points: What’s known and unknown May 7, 2013
    “I wasn’t involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.” Read full article >>     […]
    Glenn Kessler

RSS The Huffington Post

  • Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt: DOJ's Seizure Of Phone Records Was 'Unconstitutional' May 19, 2013
    WASHINGTON -- The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.Gary Pruitt says the Justice Department's secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • Harvard Students Demand Investigation Into Jason Richwine's Thesis On Hispanic IQ May 19, 2013
    Over 1,000 Harvard students delivered a petition to Harvard University’s JFK School on Saturday, demanding an investigation into how and why the school approved a 2009 doctoral thesis arguing that Hispanics have lower IQs. The thesis was written by Jason Richwine, a co-author of a paper by the conservative Heritage Foundation that argued immigration reform w […]
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  • Marcos Arenas, Las Vegas Teen, Dies After Being Run Over By Men Who Attempted To Steal His iPad May 19, 2013
    A Las Vegas boy was killed Thursday after being run over when two men attempted to steal his iPad.According to the Las Vegas Sun, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking on the side of the road with his iPad when an SUV pulled up. A suspect jumped out, accosted the boy and attempted to steal his iPad. Police investigators told the newspaper that the suspect dragged t […]
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  • Immigrants Face Health Toll After Spending Time In The U.S. May 19, 2013
    A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the parents.The pattern goes against any notion that moving to America improves every […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • 'Teenager Posts' Of The Week: Autocorrect's Worst Offense And The Dangers Of Being TOO Sarcastic May 19, 2013
    If you've ever wanted to explain to an adult what it's actually like to live inside the brain of a teenager... there's a Tumblr for that. Click through the slideshow below for 15 new memes we love this week from the hilarious website Teenager Posts and prepare to see your life described in disturbing detail. To see our previous Teenager Posts […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • Pentecost In Art: Paintings, Stained Glass Windows, Frescoes And More (PHOTOS) May 19, 2013
    Click through the slideshow to see artistic depictions of the PentecostPentecost, the Greek word for 'Shavout' is an ancient feast in Israel that celebrates the harvest and giving of the Torah on Sinai. In the Christian liturgical calendar, Pentecost, observed 50 days after Easter Sunday, marks the end of the Easter season and celebrates the descen […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • Wedding Songs For A Black Tie Affair May 19, 2013
    This article originally appeared on Martha Stewart Weddings.Once you attach "black tie" to your Big Day, it changes things a bit. Suits get fancier. Dresses get dressier. But a formal affair is no reason to spin stuffy music, so we've picked 10 tunes that go along with a black tie evening, from cocktail hour to the last dance.1. "I Get a […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • Paul Krugman: Today's Austerity Policies Based On 'A Mythical 70s That Never Was' May 19, 2013
    They say hindsight is 20/20, but according to Paul Krugman it may actually be much worse than that when it comes to economic policy-making. The Nobel-Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist wrote in a blog post Sunday that current policymakers are basing their decisions to cut spending, leading in many cases to high unemployment, on the false no […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • How A Free Press Is Threatened By Latin American Governments May 19, 2013
    One of the greatest threats to press freedom in Latin America comes in the form of shady criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels or Colombian paramilitaries who harass and sometimes murder journalists that report on their activities.Increasingly, however, a new threat is emerging in the hemisphere. It comes in the form of democratically elected officials. […]
    The Huffington Post News Editors
  • Online Dating: Find Your FaceMate Matches Mates By Facial Features May 19, 2013
    Divorcées may be looking for love in all the wrong places.Online dating site Find Your FaceMate sets out to match prospective mates based on similar facial features, which, according to site founder Christina Bloom, is a good sign of compatibility."I believe that people are attracted to people with similar facial features," Bloom said in an intervi […]
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