Can America seriously remove the stick from her ass? A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the “I (heart) boobies” wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators. Schools from California to Florida have banned the bracelets because they believe the “boobies” language is […]
Brian Sandoval, the GOP candidate for Governor of Nevada, is joining Meg Whitman in the ranks of uber-hypocrite: Channel 2 News in Nevada reported Monday night that a woman has stepped forward saying that the family of Republican Brian Sandoval, who is challenging Democrat Rory Reid for Nevada’s governorship, hired her to be a housekeeper […]
As technology rules more of our lives, stories like this will become much more common place: An electronic monitoring system tracking sex offenders, parolees and others shut down, leaving authorities in 49 states blind to offenders’ movements for about 12 hours, authorities said Wednesday. A system operated by Boulder, Colo.-based BI Incorporated unexpectedly hit its […]
Oh this is really good. As you probably recall, many Republicans and conservatives who surely knew better got carried away with outrage when the Daily Caller published its thorougly bogus series of hit pieces alleging that Journolist represented some kind of shadowy liberal conspiracy to undermine our journalistic insitutions from within for the good of […]
It looks like Dove World Outreach Center is in for some financial turmoil: The controversial Florida pastor who threatened to burn Korans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is expected to be billed at least $200,000 by the city of Gainesville for costs associated with the stunt. Pastor Terry Jones, who got international attention […]
<p>I think this is one of the best ideas I have <a href=”http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0629/conyers-throws-grayson-cosponsors-war-making-poor-act/”>ever heard out of Congress:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>It seems that Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) would agree, perpetual war is making you poor.</p> <p>To begin rectifying the situation, he’s joined with Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) in co-sponsoring the "War is Making You Poor Act," […]
Yesterday another attempt to raise the liability limit on big oil for spills was blocked by the GOP. Now the GOP is trying their own bill: After a third Republican block of a Democratic bill to raise the liability on oil spills, the GOP put forward its own bill on Tuesday afternoon. This one would […]
Here is an article conservatives are using today to point to Obama being at fault for the oil spill: If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land. The problem: The […]
If anyone wonders why CNN is in such a downward spiral, they only need to look at this article to get an idea of why: Oil slick awaits New Orleans’ 1st white mayor in decades The first white mayor of New Orleans in more than 30 years steps into his first challenge as soon as […]
This is all we know so far: The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it was responding to another oil drilling rig accident near Morgan City, Louisiana. The “mobile inland drilling unit” overturned in the Charenton navigational channel south of U.S. Highway 90 at Morgan City. UPDATE. Here’s some more: Officials say an oil drilling rig […]