Pentagon Denounces Taliban Claims About PFC Bergdahl
According to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials, missing U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, has become a Muslim and is training Taliban fighters in...
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Former D.A. Garza Indicted in Texas for Misuse of Funds
Joe Frank Garza, a former district attorney for the Texas counties of Brooks and Jim Wells, was indicted late Wednesday, August 18, by a special Jim Wells County Grand...
Hot Time at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern
Just after midnight on Saturday, July 24, at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern — “Where everyone is treated like a regular” — a very irregular event occurred. After 13 years...
Dan Rostenkowski, R.I.P.
Famous for once saying that in Chicago, politics is “a blood sport,” former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, 82, passed away on August 11 after being diagnosed last summer with...
Britain’s Marie Stopes International Offers Free Abortions as “Job Perk”
As one of the agency's major abortion providers, Marie Stopes International receives about £30 million a year from Britain’s National Health Service towards its “services.” As if this business...
Public Support for War in Afghanistan Falls
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy declined from 48 percent in February to 36 percent. USA Today attributed...
Praying Pro-life Student Arrested in Chicago
On Saturday, July 3, 25-year-old Northwestern University graduate student Joseph Holland was arrested in downtown Chicago for praying the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood facility. The accusation was that...
Oldest American Family Farm Goes Up for Sale
Though there is a slight dispute about the “oldest” family farm title going to the Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia (founded in 1613 — up and running by...
Battling the Oil Spill in Battle Creek, Michigan
There now is an oil leak in the northern part of the United States about which to worry — in Battle Creek, Michigan. Although there were reports that some...
In Elmhurst, Illinois, the “Rolling Eyes” Have It
What started as an ordinary meeting of the Elmhurst, Illinois Finance, Council Affairs and Administrative Service Committee on the evening of May 17 to discuss a proposed $30,000 lobbyist...
Rangel Charged by House Ethics Committee
Yesterday, an investigative subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee, a bipartisan group of 10 Representatives — five Democrats and five Republicans — made known that it will be charging...
First Hispanic Group Set to Join AZ Against DOJ Lawsuit
Tomorrow morning the Arizona Latino Republican Association will announce its intention to become the first Hispanic organization in the country to declare its support for the new Arizona immigration...
Birthday Fiesta Turns Bloody at Sunday Morning Mexican Shooting
The latest incident of Mexican violence occurred on early Sunday morning, July 18, about 1:30 a.m. What one report termed a “murder squad” arrived in eight SUVs to a...
Biden Didn’t Exactly Say Pelosi Is the Most Powerful Person in American Politics
Last week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made remarks indicating it was possible for the Democrats to lose control of the House of Representatives in November’s election. Already...
Tea Party Cartoon Outrages Ohio State House Candidate
Just before the July 4th weekend at the Ohio Statehouse, the Assistant Director of the House Democratic Communications Office distributed a daily e-mail to all staff members of the...
Seven Released Cuban Political Prisoners Arrive in Spain
On Tuesday, July 13, the first seven of what is expected to be up to 52 political prisoners released from Cuba, arrived in Madrid, Spain, with family members on...
Somali Terrorist Group Al-Shabab Claims Responsibility for Kampala, Uganda Bombings
Somali Islamic militants from al-Shabab have claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attacks at two sites in Uganda’s capital of Kampala, killing at least 74 and leaving dozens wounded. ...
Donations From Other States Being Made to Arizona Defense Fund
On July 6, the federal government announced it was suing the State of Arizona over its Senate Bill 1070, due to go into effect July 29. This bill is...
Despite Threats, Pinal County AZ Sheriff Babeu Declines Personal Security Detail
In late June of this year the chief deputy of Pinal County Arizona, Steve Henry, requested funding from the county so that a small, temporary security detail could be...
Utah Concealed Gun Permit Honored in Other States
As we now know, on Monday, June 28, the United States Supreme Court held up that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans that their fundamental right to keep and bear...