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If spending cuts kill jobs, ‘so be it’: Boehner
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Tuesday showed little concern for the federal job losses that could result from the GOP’s proposed spending cuts. “In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. If some of those jobs are lost…
Mich. woman can sue over toilet paper dispenser
Mich. justices say woman whose hand was broken by toilet paper dispenser can sue restaurant A Michigan woman says she can’t work or crochet and her bowling game has suffered since her right hand was broken by a toilet paper dispenser in a restaurant bathroom. The Michigan Supreme Court, in…
Palin handlers bully CNN cameraman at book signing
Sarah Palin’s aides opted to use a little bit of force to end an otherwise polite conversation with a CNN news crew Thursday. CNN’s Jim Acosta and his camera crew were invited to attend a Palin book signing in a Spirit Lake, Louisiana Wal-Mart. But one of Palin’s handlers put…
Watch: Stephen Colbert storms off ‘The View’
Stephen Colbert stormed off The View Tuesday in a mock response to view co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar doing the same thing to Bill O’Reilly. Declaring, “I am leaving right now. Forget it!” Colbert said as he trudged off the set in the middle of a segment. He then…
WWII vet’s neck breaking defended: 84-year-olds ‘can kill’ cops, too
A 84-year-old veteran is recovering from surgery to repair damaged vertebrae after an Orlando police officer reportedly flipped him onto his face and broke his neck. On Saturday, “Police say Daniel J. Daley, 84, of Orlando was transported to Florida Hospital Orlando after he ‘struck’ an officer and the officer…
Mainstream media warns Obama not to be an ‘angry black man’
To hear the media talk about it, President Obama has a serious dilemma: On the one hand, the public wants to see the president express more anger about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. On the other hand, it’s bad politics for the nation’s first black president to come off…
Police could soon be using hand germs to trace criminals
WASHINGTON — Forensic scientists could soon use hand germs to help identify criminals and victims, a study said Monday. Researchers led by Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado at Boulder swabbed individual keys on three personal computer keyboards, extracted bacterial DNA from the swabs and compared the results with…
Palin: Writing on palms ‘was good enough for God’
Admits she used to ‘hustle over the border’ to ‘get health care from Canada’ Sarah Palin has a message for critics of her crib-notes during February’s Tea Party keynote speech: God did it too. At a fundraiser on Friday for the Ohio Right to Life group, Palin assailed the media…
White House press secretary writes grocery list on hand, mocks Palin
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, in a nod to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, wrote a faux shopping list on his hand in dark pen Tuesday in response to reports over the weekend that Palin had written notes to herself during the Tea Party Convention this past weekend. Among…
Palin reads cheat notes from her hand at Tea Party Q&A
Sarah Palin clearly had notes scribbled on her hand at the National Tea Party Convention Saturday. Huffington Post obtained photos of the former governor answering pre-determined questions after her $100,000 speech. At the same event, Palin mocked President Barack Obama’s use of a teleprompter. “This is about the people and…
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