Meg Whitman is different from you or I, and the rest of the citizens who serve jury duty, no matter what they are doing at the time. But Republican candidate for Governor of California, Meg Whitman, was giving a pass on possibly serving on jury in San Mateo in a child molestation case. Whitman dodged Read more »
Eric W. Deaton of Ohio is running for a Senate seat, but he soon may find himself behind bars for allegedly having sex with a minor. Deaton, who claims to have the support of the Tea Party, was indicted on Tuesday for having sexual contact with a young girl according to the Dayton Daily News. Read more »
Calling her “the embodiment of the American dream,” businessman Rick Scott, the winner of the contentious Republican primary for Florida governor on August 24, has named state legislator Jennifer Carroll to his ticket, the Miami Herald reports. Read more »
Yes, there are more Democrats on the list of top ten richest lawmakers in Congress. Aside from that, it’s hard to draw any conclusions from this list of top fifty richest lawmakers compiled by the Hill. But many will try. The top ten list does have some strong indicators: marry well and buy tech. Here Read more »
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was called for jury duty yesterday. Whitman showed up in San Mateo County court as required by law but was not chosen according to the San Francisco Chronicle. When asked if she had any “hardships” that would make jury duty more difficult than normal, she mentioned the little race she Read more »
Part of the prevailing assumption about the Glenn Beck rally on August 28 is that it was a predominantly white event. Some critics of the rally felt that the choice of the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech was somehow inappropriate for a rally led by Glenn Beck. In the aftermath Read more »
Estimating attendance at political rallies and demonstrations is a notoriously imprecise science. Glenn Beck’s “Restore America” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial has been variously estimated from 87,000 by the Huffington Post, 300,000 by NBC News and the New York Times and 500,000 by rally organizers. Sky News concurred with rally organizers in Read more »
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie fired his education head after he said he wouldn’t. The reason? His education head, Bret Schundler, apparently lied about a miscue that cost the state $400 million in federal funding. New Jersey was rated eleventh in the “Race to the Top” funding. The top ten states were awarded massive Read more »
One of President Obama’s top economic advisors, former Senator Alan Simpson, likened Social Security to a bovine that dairy farmers would love to see. “It’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits!” Politico said the email was ”hilariously ill-tempered.” Simpson, formerly the Senator representing Wyoming in D.C. is one of many Obama appointees who is Read more »
WikiLeaks published on Wednesday a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) document, which WikiLeaks titles, “CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States ‘exporting terrorism’, 2 Feb 2010.” It is unclear exactly how WikiLeaks obtained the document. “The report looks at a number of cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US based or financed Jewish, Read more »
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