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Protesting a ticket, man deliberately crashes bike into objects blocking bike lanes
After receiving a $50 ticket for straying from the bike lane, a New York biker filmed a protest video montage of himself crashing into objects while remaining lawfully in the bike lane. Some of the crashes appear to be fairly painful. The biker, Casey Neistat, who films documentaries for an…
Report: Rudy Giuliani running for president in 2012
WASHINGTON – It remains unofficial, but former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is poised to run for president in 2012, according to Weekly Standard editor William Kristol. Kristol, a neoconservative commentator who’s well connected in Republican circles, reported in a post titled “Rudy’s Running“: “I’m told by two reliable…
Key Democrat calls on Anthony Weiner to resign
WASHINGTON – A top Democrat called on Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to resign Wednesday, after an image of the congressman’s erect penis leaked on the Internet. “Having the respect of your constituents is fundamental for a member of Congress,” Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), who serves as recruitment chair for the…
MoveOn claims it defaced Fox News HQ in prank
WASHINGTON – The progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org admitted Wednesday to filming a hoax video that in which anti-conservative slogans were splayed along the ticker outside Fox News’s Manhattan headquarters, the Huffington Post reports. “We are being lied to,” the electronic message board read briefly. “Rightwingers are destroying the middle class…
Local media: SWAT team busts into house over student loan default
Update: Dept. of Education denies that the warrant was about a loan default Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and roughed up a man — because of his estranged wife’s defaulted student loans, ABC News10…
Bachmann aide assails Palin as ‘not serious’
WASHINGTON – As she eyes a run for the presidency, a top new aide to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) charged that Sarah Palin has proven herself unserious since she was “handed” the vice presidential nomination. “Sarah has not been serious over the last couple of years,” the recently-hired veteran GOP…
Former Dem Senator Evan Bayh goes to work for the Chamber of Commerce
WASHINGTON – Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana has signed with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an adviser, becoming the latest of many members of Congress to embrace lobbying after retiring. “I’m pleased to report that the Chamber has recently enlisted former White House Chief of Staff Andy…
Herman Cain: I’d tap gay cabinet members because they wouldn’t impose Sharia law
Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, who was recently criticized for saying he wouldn’t permit Muslims in his cabinet, says he wouldn’t have a problem with openly gay appointees. “Nope, not at all. I wouldn’t have a problem with that at all,” Cain told ThinkProgress at an event in Iowa.…
Schumer: Medicare benefit cuts are off the table
WASHINGTON – A key Senate Democrat said Monday that his party is willing to make a deal on reducing Medicare expenses but drew a hard line in the sand on benefit cuts as part of the debt limit negotiations. “We’re not going to go along with any cuts to beneficiaries…
Fox News chairman: ‘I’d like to hire Hillary Clinton’
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes says he’s interested in hiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an employee of the network. “I’d like to hire Hillary Clinton,” the brains behind the conservative-leaning outlet told The Daily Beast‘s Howard Kurtz. “She looks unhappy at the State Department. She’d get ratings.” Ailes,…
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