In individual campaign donations, $1,900 is a big number. Will Rand Paul return the money? Nah – they look to chummy for Paul to return the money. I also have to caption this photo appropriately – “paling around with terrorists”.
One of the biggest problems that plagues our nations health and wasn’t really discussed during the healthcare reform debate is about to get bigger: Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected on Friday. […]
Remember bartering with chickens for health care? Well it seems like a bank has taken that advice to a whole new level when it comes to debt collection: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters Life!) – This little piggy went to market — to pay off a Russian woman’s overdue debt to a bank. Court officers in far […]
Well imagine that. S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford was out for months blasting the stimulus. All the media covered it and his declarations of not taking any stimulus money almost nonstop. Well that has changed: Two months ago, however, with the bright lights of political promise dimmed by a scandal involving an extramarital affair, Mr. Sanford […]
Rupert Murdoch is a genius. Genius I tell ya! The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show. Unregistered users of thetimes.co.uk are now “bounced” to a Times+ membership page where they have to register if they want to view […]
That according to Joe Scarborough: From The Huffington Post: “I hear it on the Hill, I’m sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it’s not reported, but so many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world,” said Scarborough on Wednesday’s edition of Morning […]
It looks like some were planning on going to tonight’s big Tea Party rally in Cincinnati just for the purpose of seeing Sean Hannity. Now that Fox executives forced him to cancel his appearance we have someone wanting a refund: Pat Kellison said she wants her money back. She’d not only bought the book but […]
From a Washington Post breaking email alert: Sales at U.S. retailers rose more strongly than expected in March as consumer stepped up purchases of vehicles and wide range of goods, government data showed on Wednesday, suggesting a broadening of the manufacturing-led economic recovery. The Commerce Department said total retail sales jumped 1.6 percent, the largest […]
On any other week this might not be that big of a story, but given the expenditures the RNC paid for at a sex club, well today it just adds fuel to the fire: A new entrant in the when-it-rains-it-pours category. The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a […]
I’ve been trying to stay out of the tabloid mania that is John Edwards, but this caught my interest today: Young also said another copy has been turned over to the FBI, which has been investigating the money that exchanged hands during Edwards’ second White House campaign. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. Unless that […]