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 […]
Announcements for Saturday afternoon’s “Celebrate America” rally at Kenai’s Leif Hansen Memorial Park did, indeed, specify 2012, though much of the proceedings would have been right at home in the 2010 election season, or even the 2008 presidential campaign. Among the attendees were supporters of Texas Congressman and current presidential candidate Ron Paul, who also […]
The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign condemned today the efforts of the Alaska Republican Party and its chairman Randy Reudrich to disenfranchise Paul and other non-Romney delegates to the party’s upcoming state convention. In doing so, the Paul campaign also announced that it will utilize all legal tools at its disposal to prevent or reverse […]
It is easy to (falsely) accuse Ron Paul of anti-Semitism because of his daily rants on the floor of Congress about the war on Iraq being fostered by Jewish lobbyists in America. Widespread suggestions make the connection and the so-called neocon movement clearly advanced the project. Paul opposes foreign aid to everyone in general and […]
Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the inevitable Republican candidate for president of the United States, and the candidate with the best chance of beating Barack Obama, rather than because they actually prefer Romney to the other candidates. Inevitability has a very unreliable […]
The US Justice Department has blocked the implementation of a Texas statue to require voters to present a photo ID at the voting booth. Last December, the same Eric Holder-led department blocked the enforcement of a similar law in South Carolina. Vetoing state laws governing voting procedures shows a dangerous pattern of abuse by these […]