Colorado Democrats To Diane Feinstein: No Gitmo terrorists in our state thank you very much.
Colorado’s tandem of rookie Democratic senators aren’t exactly embracing Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s suggestion that Gitmo detainees be shipped to a Supemax federal prison in Florence, Colo. Michael Bennet: “I strongly support the Senate’s decision to withhold funding for the transfer of the detainees until the Administration comes up with a plan for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
A Saturn dealership co-owned by former Detroit Piston Bob Sura has launched the first of an expected flood of lawsuits against General Motors Corp., arguing the automaker’s plan to eliminate the brand rendered his franchise “worthless.” The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, accuses GM of violating state franchise laws and stripping Saturn of any value by announcing the brand will be sold or eliminated later this year.
The U.S. National Archives on Wednesday said it is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a missing hard drive that contains personal information of former Clinton administration staff and visitors. The small portable hard drive was being kept as a backup, the National Archives explained in a question-and-answer document (PDF) on its Web site.
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) took the opportunity Wednesday to defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has come under fire in recent weeks over a controversy surrounding when she was told of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques being used by the CIA. “The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law Institute.
This kind of political correctness can literally make you sick to your stomach.
Get out your bleach and launder those reusable fabric grocery bags after each use. You’re not clogging up landfill with plastic throw-aways, but your environmental conscientiousness could make you sick.
Check it out, here’s yet another group that WASN’T on any of Napolitano’s terrorist threat memos.
The FBI is advising law enforcement officers across the country that a Texas cell of Los Zetas — an increasingly powerful arm of the Mexican Gulf Cartel drug trafficking syndicate — has acquired a secluded ranch where it trains its members to “neutralize” competitors in the United States. In order to ensure its share of the lucrative illegal drug trade, the cartel’s members reportedly are operating north of the border to collect debts and spy on competitors.
A New Zealand couple are reportedly on the run after $NZ10 million – instead of $NZ10,000 – was mistakenly deposited in their bank account. The couple, who ran a Rotorua service station, were understood to have applied for a $NZ10,000 overdraft from Westpac but instead had the larger amount mistakenly paid into their account.
Democrat Senator slams brakes on bill honoring Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday.
Republicans are trying to pass legislation in the next few weeks to kick off the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the only hurdle appears to be Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is refusing to let the Senate vote on the bill. Feingold’s decision to block passage of a bipartisan commission to celebrate the former president’s 100th birthday has nothing to do with antagonism toward the conservative icon. But he does want to use the momentum behind the bill to drive legislation of his own.
President Obama is so “distracted by his vice president’s indiscipline” that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Joe Biden, according to a new book by Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe, who interviewed Obama a dozen times. “He can’t keep his mouth shut,” Wolffe quotes a “senior Obama aide” as saying of the gaffe-prone Biden in “Renegade: The Making of a President,” set for release June 2.
High-ranking House Democrats are urging the Treasury Department to prop up minority-owned broadcasters suffering from a lack of capital and lost advertising revenue amid the economic slump. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is leading an effort to convince Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to take “decisive action” by extending credit to this sector of the broadcasting industry.
Hundreds of landowners swindled out of their properties in Texas.
Hundreds of Texas landowners may be forced to battle in court to get their own properties back after investigators announced the landowners may have been victims of a massive fraud. Authorities believe one or more people executed fraudulent sales of the properties in question by forging sales documents and submitting fake buyers, WFAA-TV reported.
Spiderman 3 actress found dead. Apparent suicide by hanging.
One of Britain’s most promising young stars has been found dead in an apparent suicide in Paris just days before her 29th birthday. Stunning starlet Lucy Gordon — who appeared in Spiderman 3 and other big budget Hollywood films — was found dead by her boyfriend in her central Paris apartment yesterday.
Repeat abortions have reached a record high, figures released today reveal. One third of women who had an abortion last year were on their second, third or even eighth termination, new figures show. The statistics will fuel the debate over whether some women are using abortion as a form of contraception.
Where is PETA when you really need them? Wind farm “noises” are killing goats in Taiwan.
A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm. A farmer on an outlying island told the BBC he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land.
Police say an officer killed when his patrol car crashed on the way to an emergency call was going 109 miles per hour on a city street with his lights and siren off. Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Wednesday results of the investigation of Officer James Manor’s death will probably change charges against 45-year-old Calvin Darling.
Quote of the day.
I don’t know whether it’s the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.
–Bill Clinton, speaking of the White House