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Taxpayers on the Hook for Expensive Louisiana Fiber Optic System

Taxpayers on the Hook for Expensive Louisiana Fiber Optic System

Taxpayers on the Hook for Expensive Louisiana Fiber Optic System By David Williams Children often play a game called “follow the leader.”  The point of the game is to mimic what the “leader” is doing.  Players who fail to “follow [...]
Road Rage Knockout Beating In Los Angeles

Road Rage Knockout Beating In Los Angeles

California authorities investigate video of freeway beating posted online Published June 20, 2012 California authorities are urging the public for help in identifying the men responsible for the the brutal beating of a motorist along a Los [...]
Candidate Michael Berlanga Does Not Live In District 19

Candidate Michael Berlanga Does Not Live In District 19

Uresti asks: Is opponent homeless? By Guillermo Contreras Updated 11:43 p.m., Friday, June 15, 2012 The Republican Party candidate who wants to unseat incumbent Democratic state Sen. Carlos Uresti either lives in a vacant lot by a car wash [...]
Mitt Romney Needs To Fight For White House

Mitt Romney Needs To Fight For White House

If Romney wants the White House, he should fight for it By Peter Foster US politics Last updated: June 14th, 2012 Mitt Romney – not fighting for it As put-downs go, it wasn’t bad. Barack Obama speaking about Mitt Romney’s bid [...]
Defense Cuts Would Beat The War Drum Says General

Defense Cuts Would Beat The War Drum Says General

Mandated defense cuts could lead to war, top US military official says Published June 13, 2012 The top U.S. military official suggested Wednesday that scheduled Pentagon budget cuts could lead to war. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint [...]
2012 General Election: Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama

2012 General Election: Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama

General Election: Romney vs. Obama Polling Data Poll Date Sample Obama (D) Romney (R) Spread RCP Average 5/29 – 6/12 – 45.7 44.9 Obama +0.8 Rasmussen Tracking 6/10 – 6/12 1500 LV 44 48 Romney +4 Reuters/Ipsos 6/7 [...]
Obama Places Deficit Blame On Republicans

Obama Places Deficit Blame On Republicans

Obama: Republicans Left Me With The Check For A Steak Dinner     At a fundraiser on Tuesday, President Obama said the debt and deficit her inherited is “baked in” structurally. “If they start trying to give [...]
Democrat Ron Barber Wins Arizona Special Election

Democrat Ron Barber Wins Arizona Special Election

Democrat Ron Barber wins Arizona special election to fill Giffords’ seat Published June 13, 2012 PHOENIX –  Democrats avoided a second election loss in as many weeks Tuesday as Democrat Ron Barber defeated Republican Jesse Kelly [...]
New Internet Domains Dot Everything

New Internet Domains Dot Everything

Web 2.0: New Internet domains may include ‘.lol,’ ‘.bank’ Published June 12, 2012 Associated Press If Google has its way, you won’t need “Google.com” to do your searches. You can simply go to “.Google.” New [...]

Travis County Precinct 2 Constable Raul Roy Camacho

Travis County Precinct 2 Constable Raul Roy Camacho For CONSTABLE To all my neighbors in precinct 2 of Travis County thank you for visiting my campaign site and for your interest in my endeavor to become your next Constable. I hope to [...]
$20 Fine For Cursing In Public

$20 Fine For Cursing In Public

Dagnabit, This Town Is Fed Up With Cursing Middleborough, Mass., Set to Vote On Fines for Profanity; Bleeps From ‘Baby’ By JENNIFER LEVITZ MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass.—Mimi Duphily was hanging baskets of pink geraniums on antique street [...]
America's Richest And Poorest School Districts

America’s Richest And Poorest School Districts

America’s Richest School Districts Posted: June 6, 2012 at 6:36 am The average income of Americans differs by state, county, city and ZIP code, obviously. At each level, the amount residents earn every year impacts available government services, [...]
Glenn Beck Renews Radio Contract for a Reported $100 Million

Glenn Beck Renews Radio Contract for a Reported $100 Million

June 10, 2012, 9:15 pm Beck Renews His Radio Deal By BRIAN STELTER Glenn Beck, who departed Fox News last year and started his own Internet television network, is sticking with his radio network partner. His company, Mercury Radio Arts, will [...]
Greek Politician Slaps Female Opponent

Greek Politician Slaps Female Opponent

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President Barack Obama Gets Dumped By American Woman

President Barack Obama Gets Dumped By American Woman

Why the American woman is about to break up with Obama By Mercedes V. Schlapp Published May 18, 2012 For months, President Obama has been focused on courting the American woman. This week the latest CBS News/New York Times poll shows that [...]
Three Numbers Why President Barack Obama Will Lose Election

Three Numbers Why President Barack Obama Will Lose Election

Meltdown on Main Street: Three Dangerous Numbers Reveal Why Obama Will Lose the Election  Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:16 PM By Aaron DeHoog   “It’s the economy, stupid.” That is the exact phrase widely used during Bill Clinton’s [...]
Los Angeles Kings Offer $100,000 Reward To Capture Baby Killer

Los Angeles Kings Offer $100,000 Reward To Capture Baby Killer

Baby’s slaying in Watts spurs $100,000 reward offer The 1-year-old was shot while in the arms of his father, who may have been mistaken for a gang member because of the color he was wearing. Police Chief Charlie Beck calls the death ‘an [...]
Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters Faces Ethics Charge Helping Husband's Bank Involvment

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters Faces Ethics Charge Helping Husband’s Bank Involvement

Ethics panel moves ahead on Maxine Waters investigation By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 6/6/12 1:29 PM EDT The House Ethics Committee will move forward with its case against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), continuing its probe after an outside [...]
President Barack Obama Weather Underground Radical Bill Ayers Plot Thickens

President Barack Obama Weather Underground Radical Bill Ayers Plot Thickens

Exclusive – The Vetting – Senator Barack Obama Attended Bill Ayers Barbecue, July 4, 2005 by Joel B. Pollak As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama disavowed any connection with former domestic terrorist Bill [...]
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Wins Recall Election

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Wins Recall Election

Scott Walker Beats Recall, Wins in Wisconsin by Howard Kurtz Jun 5, 2012 10:05 PM EDT   The Republican governor survives a recall backed by unions. Howard Kurtz on what the outcome tells us about the Obama-Romney contest.   Scott [...]
Ron Paul PaulFest Threatens Republican Momentum

Ron Paul PaulFest Threatens Republican Momentum

Paul supporters say RNC is blocking festival plans Published June 05, 2012 Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. –  Ron Paul supporters are unhappy that Republican National Convention organizers aren’t letting them throw a festival honoring [...]
Congressman Darrell Issa Exposes Attorney General Eric Holder Fast & Furious Scandal

Congressman Darrell Issa Exposes Attorney General Eric Holder Fast & Furious Scandal

Issa: Wiretaps show ‘immense detail’ about questionable Fast & Furious tactics Published June 05, 2012 A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration’s [...]
Republican Governor Scott Walker Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Wisconsin Recall

Republican Governor Scott Walker Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Wisconsin Recall

No voter fatigue in Wisconsin as Republicans, Democrats continue to spend money, resources Wisconsin voters, hammered hard by months of volatile campaigning as the state’s union-backed Democrats push to recall-and-replace Republican Gov. [...]
Former President Bill Clinton Qualifies Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Former President Bill Clinton Qualifies Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

President Bill Clinton On Mitt Romney Not a good sign for Obama when one of his top surrogates (if not the top) had nothing but glowing praise for Mitt Romney. He cited his overwhelming qualifications to be president, including his ‘sterling’ [...]
Republicans Need Economy To Fail For November 2012 Election

Republicans Need Economy To Fail For November 2012 Election

Economy Needs To Fail If the economy fails, it allows Republicans to say, “I told you so.”  Democrats are sugar-coating the real economy, and it’s only beneficial for them to be honest with the American people. President [...]
Florida To Justice Department and Eric Holder... Shove It

Florida To Justice Department and Eric Holder… Shove It

Florida weighs warning against voter purge (Reuters) – Florida, a key electoral battleground where the 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred ballots, will decide in the coming days whether to heed a Justice Department [...]
Wisconsin Governor Walker Walking The Walk in Recall Vote

Wisconsin Governor Walker Walking The Walk in Recall Vote

Wisconsin Gov. Walker works to meet voters before recall vote Published June 02, 2012 Associated Press EVANSVILLE, Wis –  Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett began a final push Saturday to connect with voters [...]
CEO Pay

On Average A CEO made $9.6 million last year

Typical CEO made $9.6 million last year, AP study finds By Christina Rexrode, Associated Press NEW YORK – Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million [...]

Republican Controlled US House Approves Repeal of Health Care Law

WASHINGTON — The newly muscular House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s health care overhaul — a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama [...]

Judge Martin L.C. Feldman Halts President Obama’s Oil-Drilling Ban Says Public Misled

By Stephen Dinan A federal judge in New Orleans halted President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium on Tuesday, saying the government never justified the ban and appeared to mislead the public in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Judge [...]