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CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: Zimmerman’s lawyers could lead to early arrest
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday explained that special prosecutor Angela Corey in Florida may want to arrest George Zimmerman now that his lawyers have quit. During a press conference on Tuesday, Attorneys Craig Sonner and Hal Uhri said they had lost contact with Zimmerman, who claims to have…
Obama bashes ‘trickle down’ economics in Florida speech
During speech in Florida on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said that “trickle down” economics never worked and called for Congress to pass the so-called “Buffett Rule.” “This is not about a few people doing well, we want people to do well, that’s great,” Obama said. “But it is about giving…
WATCH LIVE: Zimmerman press conference
UPDATE: George Zimmerman’s attorneys quit: We have lost contact with him George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch captain who admitted to killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was scheduled to hold a press conference on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. ET. Watch this live video from WKMG, broadcast April 10, 2012. …
WATCH LIVE: Santorum expected to suspend campaign
UPDATE: Santorum pulls out of presidential race Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was expected to suspend his campaign at a press conference on Tuesday. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast April 10, 2012. Photo: Shutterstock…
Maine super PAC creates pledge against ‘sodomy based marriage’
A newly-created, anti-LGBT rights super PAC in Maine is asking residents to sign a “truth pledge” against “sodomy based marriage,” which they say is being advanced by “demonic forces.” Same sex marriage opponents Paul Madore and Mike Heath formed the No Special Rights PAC and began distributing their pledge at…
Beck: We have a ‘righteous calling’ to lead a ‘new civil rights movement’
Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck said he believed Tuesday morning that he was capable of leading a “new civil rights movement” in America after claiming that fascism was coming to Europe. Appearing on televangelist James Robison’s Life Today show, Beck commented on the popular Occupy Wall Street movement. “We…
Paul Ryan refuses to define ‘rich’: ‘These are job creators’
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday refused to define “rich” because the wealthiest Americans were “job creators,” and accused President Barack Obama of “verbal tantrums” for calling his proposed budget “thinly veiled social Darwinism.” During a speech in Washington last week, Obama blasted Republicans for proposing “more…
Parody ad shows how to do your taxes like Mitt Romney
Well, it’s that time again. For all you last-minute tax filers, the deadline is only six days away to gather up all your receipts and your W-2s, sit down with Turbo Tax and a bottle of Excedrin and get to it. Next year, though, why not do what Mitt Romney…
Van Jones: Libertarianism ‘would spit in the face of Dr. King’
Former White House adviser Van Jones on Monday defended recent remarks he made against “so-called libertarians” by saying, “I think we have to start punching back.” In a March speech to the Occupy movement in Los Angeles, Jones had called libertarianism a “despicable ideology.” “They say they’re Patriots but they…
Woman’s toxic suicide results in hazmat scare, evacuation
Residents had to be evacuated from a Boston apartment building after a resident committed suicide by ingesting a chemical that the human body metabolizes into a type of cyanide. According to a report from New England Cable News, firefighters and police donned hazmat suits to handle the body of a…
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