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Bomb squad renewing effort to enter Aurora suspect’s apartment
Bomb squad experts will try on Saturday to enter a gunman’s booby-trapped apartment, hours after a late-night vigil for the 12 killed in a US cinema massacre that also injured 58. Hundreds of mourners held candles, many sobbing and hugging each other in an outpouring of grief for those who…
Top tea partier demands Obama prove he doesn’t smoke crack and have gay sex
The president of Tea Party Nation declared on Thursday that if Mitt Romney is to release his tax returns, President Barack Obama should release medical records to prove he’s not a drug addict who smoked crack and had gay sex with a lifelong con-man. Judson Phillips, whose for-profit group is better…
NOM: ‘Gay marriage billionaires’ using class warfare for ‘re-defining marriage’
The president of one of the country’s most prominent anti-same sex marriage organizations recently played the “class warfare” card and warned that “gay marriage billionaires” were “re-defining marriage for everyone” by working with President Barack Obama and other politicians “who are all too willing to take the gay lobby’s money…
O’Reilly: Obama wants to ‘restrain capitalism’ because of slavery ‘grievances’
Fox News opinion host Bill O’Reilly says that President Barack Obama’s misguided disdain for capitalism is a reaction to “historical grievances” about slavery. During his Thursday “Talking Points” segment, O’Reilly said that footage of president’s comments about business, which critics say were deceptively edited by both Fox News and Mitt…
Obama warns of cyber threats to the U.S.
President Barack Obama warned of cyber threats to critical US infrastructure and called on Congress to take action in an op-ed published Friday in the Wall Street Journal. “The cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face,” Obama wrote. “Foreign…
Lawyers ask for Guantanamo trial to be televised
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Lawyers for the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of the deadly 2000 attack on the USS Cole demanded Thursday that his Guantanamo military tribunal be televised. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s trial at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is the first since the…
Science guy Bill Nye endorses President Obama
Children’s television host Bill Nye, better known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” has formally endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012. Appearing at a press conference this week with Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) at the Seacoast Science Center, Nye told a reporter for Foster’s Daily Democrat that the…
Putin agrees to work with Obama on Syria
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday in a phone call with President Barack Obama to work with the United States to find a solution to the crisis in Syria, the White House said. But the Kremlin stressed that “differences” remain ahead of a UN Security Council vote in…
House pushes Obama on effects of spending cuts
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers voted Wednesday to give the White House 30 days to explain how it will deal with $1 trillion in spending cuts set to kick in next year, as the defense industry warned the impact would be devastating. A rarely united House of Representatives voted 414-2 in…
Arpaio: Questioning profit motive behind birther investigation ‘a big insult’
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday said it was “insulting” to point out that members of his Cold Case Posse were profiting off their long-running investigation of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. “How do you expect any of us to believe any of this?” KPHO-TV’s Morgan Loew asked Arpaio…
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