
John Murtha, Pennsylvania’s long-time 12 district Congressman, and Vietnam War combat veteran, passed away today after complications from gall bladder surgery. He was 77. He was revered among Democrats — and even some Republicans — for his skill over 19 terms in using the power of the federal purse to make kings and deals. A right-hand [...]
Courtesy Raw Story: Just three weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court ended a ban on corporate spending in political elections, drawing intense criticism for the ruling’s potential to erode the democratic process. This week, a group that includes some of the wealthiest Republican CEOs on Wall Street have formed a group to take advantage of new fundraising possibilities [...]
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It would seem that Sarah Palin has so screwed herself out of ever using a teleprompter by constantly bashing President Obama’s use of one, that she ended up writing answers on her hand, and thinking she could look and nobody would notice. The Associated Press got a clear shot of what was written. Check it [...]
And nobody had to dress up as a hooker, or a pimp, or a telephone repairman, or try to tamper with a federal phone system to do it. Take a hint, James O’Keefe, THIS is how journalists do their job! By Bill Dedman, Investigative reporter, msnbc.com Officially he was the first gentleman of Alaska. More people called [...]
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Yeah Bob covered this already I think, but JP Morgan administering food stamps just sounds sleezy. -Shinai.
Posted on 03 August 2009
Don’t miss out on your chance to own one of these limited edition prints, made exclusively for the H.O.R.N.! There are only 120 in existence, and when they’re gone, they’re gone forever. These were made and signed by artist and H.O.R.N. listener Diane Grohol. You can visit her site and learn more about her body of work [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 08 February 2010
A US soldier has been charged with “waterboarding” his four-year-old daughter because she could not recite her ABCs, police in the state of Washington say. In a fit of rage and under the influence of alcohol, 27-year-old Joshua Tabor and his girlfriend pushed his daughter’s head, face up, under a running tap in the kitchen sink, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 January 2010
Baltimore Sun By Scott Calvert | scott.calvert@baltsun.com January 30, 2010 Donations for Haiti have poured in to the American Red Cross of Central Maryland from a range of sources. Nothing, though, has stood out like the coins and crumpled dollar bills that spilled from one envelope. That gift – $14.64 – came from the pockets of homeless people [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 January 2010
The Nation By Jeremy Scahill January 28, 2010 Every detail of September 16, 2007, is burned in Mohammed Kinani’s memory. Shortly after 9 am he was preparing to leave his house for work at his family’s auto parts business in Baghdad when he got a call from his sister, Jenan, who asked him to pick her and her [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 January 2010
WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin’s office confirmed Wednesday that Robert Flanagan, who was arrested and charged as part of an alleged scheme to gain access to a U.S. senator’s telephones, worked in her office last year. Still, press secretary Katie Bruns said the Oklahoma Republican remains a co-sponsor of a congressional resolution honoring one of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 January 2010
By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian January 26, 2010, 10:17PM Oregon voters bucked decades of anti-tax and anti-Salem sentiment Tuesday, raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to prevent further erosion of public schools and other state services. The tax measures passed easily, with late returns showing a 54 percent to 46 percent ratio. Measure 66 raises taxes on [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 January 2010
boston.com January 27, 2010 05:40 PM Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87. “His writings have [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 January 2010
News Release Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress January 27, 2010 ERIC HENSAL WILLIAM KLEIN Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today announced it is filing to run for U.S. Congress. “Until now,” Murray Hill Inc. said in a statement, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 January 2010
Burns’ night boost for famous Scottish dish that fell victim to BSE fears Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 January 2010 18.23 GMT Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 20 January 2010
On the left is Tareq Salahi, who makes up one half of the “White House Party Crashers” tag team, testifying (more like asserting the 5th) to a Congressional panel this morning. On the right is Rafe Hollister from “The Andy Griffith Show”, who was known for his beautiful singing and moonshining abilities. One of them spent [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 January 2010
HORN listener ‘Kevin from Brooklyn’ has been kind enough to send along an excerpt from his upcoming book, “Coming of Age in the Era of Conservatism”. It’s a candid look at how Haiti’s economy left the country in such a fragile condition, and how the United States isn’t too far behind, especially if we don’t [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 January 2010
That’s according to a feature story in Uganda’s largest independent newspaper, The Sunday Monitor: In February, David Bahati, the mover of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in the American capital of DC. Mr Bahati, according to reports, may speak at the event where President Barack Obama – a gays-tolerant liberal president, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 January 2010
Courtesy Grist: The FDA’s new report on the safety of endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A is months overdue and there is still no sign of when or if the agency will release the report. Perhaps they are waiting for that piece of “smoking gun” evidence that BPA represents a clear and present danger to human health? Well, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 January 2010
Huffington Post | Danny Shea First Posted: 01-13-10 02:45 PM | Updated: 01-13-10 03:14 PM Televangelist Pat Robertson said Wednesday that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has been “cursed” by a “pact to the devil.” “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said on Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The [...] Continue Reading