Thursday, October 27, 2016

Donald Trump Invokes Michael Moore In A Grasp For Liberal Support


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday attempted to leverage some positive comments from liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, who recently spoke about the GOP nominee’s appeal to the blue-collar workers left behind by President Barack Obama’s economy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-michael-moore_us_581212d5e4b0990edc2f6e83

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

TRUMP Rounds Over

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-judge-teleprompter_us_57577c4ae4b01270c7736920 With handlers no doubt desperate to rein him in, Trump read from a teleprompter on Tuesday night — something he has ripped other politicians for doing — after he swept the New Jersey primary, straying from his usual extemporaneous string of thoughts and delivering a more controlled, edited statement.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Drug Cocktail Used In Executions Is Too Painful To Use On Animals: Report

Drug Cocktail Used In Executions Is Too Painful To Use On Animals: Report: The drug cocktail used to execute an Oklahoma inmate who writhed on the gurney before eventually suffering a massive heart attack is deemed too painful to use on animals, according to a new report by The Constitution ProjectI'll.

The Guardian reports that veterinarians in at least one state are barred from using a three-drug formula used on several inmates, including Clayton Lockett last week. Lockett, who was convicted in 2000 of murdering a 19-year-old woman, died almost two hours after the lethal injection drugs were administered.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Opinion: Gun violence is a public health epidemic - CNN.com

Opinion: Gun violence is a public health epidemic - CNN.com: CNN) -- "Don't know if you heard reports of shots fired in Paramus Garden State Plaza -- suspect in body armor and carrying long rifle."

I received this text from a friend at 9:59 on Monday evening. This would be a disturbing message for anyone to read, but it was especially alarming to me because Paramus, New Jersey -- the place where the shooting was taking place -- is my hometown.

We have all watched media reports of heart-breaking gun violence at grammar schools, universities, barbershops, movie theaters, shopping malls, workplaces, airports. But it feels different when your hometown is on the national news as the location. You truly get the sense that no place is safe.

Police arrest 15-year-old girl accused of cyberbullying in Florida - CNN.com

Police arrest 15-year-old girl accused of cyberbullying in Florida - CNN.com: (CNN) -- Police in St. Petersburg, Florida, have arrested a 15-year-old girl who they say sent several hundred threatening texts to three other 15-year-old girls.

The suspect, who CNN is not naming because of her age, is charged with three counts of aggravated stalking and one count of tampering with a witness, according to a Thursday statement from police.

Many of the texts were allegedly death threats.

According to police, the suspect admitted she sent some of the texts but not all of them.

They said she admitted to sending the following text: "If this isn't bullying then I don't know what is."

Ted Cruz's Drunken Law School Antics Revealed

Ted Cruz's Drunken Law School Antics Revealed: The Boston Globe poked around Texas Senator Ted Cruz's time at Harvard Law School. Some of the findings are almost too good to be true.

Among them: the Republican senator once got so drunk that he couldn't perform in a school play the next day.

From the Globe:

Couple fined for inflight sex - CNN.com

Couple fined for inflight sex - CNN.com: (CNN) -- Apparently, what happens on the way to Vegas, doesn't necessarily stay there.

A former vintner and a salon technician were each fined $250 for allegedly engaging in oral sex in front of other passengers on a commercial Allegiant Air flight from Medford, Oregon, to Las Vegas.

Christopher Martin, of Las Vegas, and Medford resident Jessica Stroble, each pleaded guilty in absentia in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to a federal misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct on Thursday, reports Oregon's Mail Tribune.

The alleged act took place on June 21.

According to an FBI affidavit, passengers on the Allegiant Air flight saw Martin exposing his genitals and twice joining Stroble in oral sex and other acts despite warnings from flight attendants