Like we didn’t see this one coming: Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials — that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork. The video the lawyer showed Carrie is extremely graphic and has never […]
Claire McCaskill has come up with a novel idea – cap the bonuses companies that are receiving federal aide can pay out: Under the bill by McCaskill, an early endorser of Obama’s presidential candidacy, employees would not be able to make more money than the U.S. president — $400,000 a year — until their companies […]
Richard Hohlt is one of only three lobbyists registered for Washington Mutual this year. Washington Mutual handles most of their own lobbying, but they still paid Holht over $36,000. Also listed among Hohlt’s clients are Fannie Mae and J.P. Morgan. Another interesting thing with Hohlt is that he is listed on McCain’s website as one […]
Part of the McCain statement on Palin had me scratching my head: In Alaska, Governor Palin challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill. She has actually used her veto and cut budgetary spending. She put a stop to the “bridge to nowhere” that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars. (emphasis […]
The Ohio GOP has been busted for illegally funneling almost $500,000 dollars into a fund for Ken Blackwell during his failed try to retain the Secretary of State office in 2006: The letter says Ohio’s Republican party collected nearly half a million dollars from a federal GOP account in October 2006. They also took in […]
I only post about this because I have known Bobby Burck most of my life. We grew up in the same town, just north of Cincinnati: One of New York’s top tourist attractions, a guitar-playing cowboy dressed only in a pair of underpants, boots and Stetson hat, is reportedly suing the Mars candy corporation for […]
According to Politico, and the name should be of no shock: Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations, Thompson advisers told The Politico. […]
On Monday, Al Franken talked to David Phillips, an ex state department employee who knows a thing or two about Iraq. In 1998 when the United States first decided that Saddam was going to have to be removed from power eventually, the government started preparing for how to deal with post-war Iraq. The State Department […]