Sen. Dick Lugar is accusing tea party members of trespassing on his family farm and erecting ‘Retire Lugar’ signs on the eve of the Senate primary. The six-term Republican incumbent said Monday he was alerted by his son that members of the Owen County tea party climbed over a fence at his Marion County farm […]
A Dallas-based truck driver is in prison in Mexico and facing a possible 35-year sentence because he missed his exit and had no way of turning around without crossing the border. Jabin Bogan was making deliveries in El Paso before heading on to Arizona when he missed his exit and found himself stuck on the […]
Honesty. Integrity. Character. These are the words that spring to mind when you think of Massachusetts liberal and Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren, right? The woman who helped design TARP and was put in charge of reforming the financial system by President Obama would never do anything unethical. Of course not…unless claiming for over ten years […]
You don’t need a mind reader to know that hiring a magician for your government conference may not be a great idea right now. But that’s what NOAA had planned before it pulled an advertisement for a speaker on the “magic of change” for an upcoming confab in Silver Spring, Md. The agency wanted a […]
If you ran a business with $25 billion in losses over the last five years, $20 billion in annual losses projected in the coming years, and 80 percent of its locations losing money, do you think that your company would stay afloat? Should it be rescued with a bailout from its customers? Or should it […]
Former US presidential candidate John Edwards’ wife ripped off her shirt and bra in a confrontation with her husband over his affair, a court has heard. Breast cancer sufferer Elizabeth Edwards also collapsed during the fight in an airport car park, a witness said. Mr Edwards’ daughter left the court in tears during the latest […]
The California student who was forgotten about by agents and left alone in a holding cell for five days without food or water filed a $20 million claim Wednesday against federal drug officials. Attorney Eugene Iredale sent the demand notice on behalf of UC San Diego senior Daniel Chong, 23, to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s […]
Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign policy spokesman for GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, resigned Tuesday over what he called “the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign.” “While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability […]
David Baldinger is a full-time volunteer taxpayer advocate and political activist from Pennsylvannia whose exclusive focus is the elimination of school property taxes and education finance reform. He became involved in this effort in 2004 during work with former PA legislator and gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer, and since then has become a leading expert on […]
A third grade student in a Palmer, Alaska elementary school was suspended for bullying when she allegedly told a classmate, “I do not want to play with you at recess because you are not Christian.” The comment was supposedly made to a boy who, together with no other student, teacher, or staff, recalls exactly what […]