It’s amazing how quickly the world can change. Watch Gamal Abd el Nasser, the President of Egypt from 1956 until 1970, give a speech to a laughing audience on the Muslim Brotherhood’s idea of imposing hijab on women in their country. A hijab is a veil that symbolizes modesty and women… Read More
Classic Disney star dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dean Jones, whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favorite young actor for such lighthearted films as “That Darn Cat!” and “The Love Bug,” has died of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. He died Monday in Los Angeles, Jones’ publicist Richard… Read More
Moron crashes car, then huffs cleaning product… Right in front of a cop
TOPSHAM, Maine (AP) — Police say a Maine man crashed his SUV into a guardrail on an interstate and then inhaled computer keyboard cleaner in front of the officer who pulled him over. Topsham Sgt. Robert Ramsay tells the Portland Press Herald that 44-year-old John Yates was arrested Monday night… Read More
The naughty “Big Foot” sightings
KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — Authorities have nabbed a man who’s accused of spray-painting images of Sasquatch on public property. Police in the picturesque coastal town didn’t find the graffiti featuring Bigfoot all that amusing and charged 36-year-old Freeman Hatch with criminal mischief and possession of drugs. He’s due in court… Read More
NH pulling bartending manuals for having dirty drink names?
Don’t use quirky drink names when ordering at the bar, says Big Brother, or you could hurt someones feelings. New Hampshire has pulled hundreds of bartending guides from state-run liquor stores after workers complained that the drink manuals contained sexually explicit and derogatory drink names such as “stripper mom.” The… Read More
Kentucky clerk hauled to jail for refusing gay marriage licenses
Have the US courts crossed the line? A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk Kim Davis to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite pleas from those same couples that Davis… Read More
Judge brings the HAMMER down on these 5 cheating tech companies
A federal judge has approved a huge $415 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging Apple, Google, Intel and two other Silicon Valley companies illegally conspired to prevent their workers from getting better job offers. The settlement will pay more than 64,000 technology workers about $5,800 apiece. The approval… Read More
First hearing for the House – “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.”
The move may be ceremonial, but the House Judiciary Committee will hold Congress’ first hearing on the Planned Parenthood videos next Wednesday. And the title they’re using leaves little doubt about where majority Republicans stand on the issue. The panel said next week’s session will be the first of several… Read More
Judge issues HUGE ruling against the NFL. League vows to fight.
Sorry, Goodell. A federal judge let the air out of “Deflategate” Thursday, erasing New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for a controversy the NFL claimed threatened football’s integrity. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman criticized NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for dispensing “his own brand of industrial justice.” Berman… Read More
JAPAN SURRENDERS! Celebrations from Wednesday’s 70th anniversary
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — U.S. officials and veterans gathered on a decommissioned battleship in Pearl Harbor on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of World War II’s end. “It was not about retribution. Like today’s ceremony, it was an acknowledgement that the shared losses of World War II vastly… Read More