Bozos In the News
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Reporters covering the oil spill from ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas, are reporting that they've been blocked from the site and threatened with arrest. On Friday morning, Inside Climate News reported that an Exxon spokesperson told reporter Lisa Song that she could be "arrested for criminal trespass" when she went to the command center to try to find representatives from the EPA and the Department of Transportation. On Friday afternoon, I spoke to the news director from the local NPR affiliate who said he, too, had been threatened with arrest while trying to cover the spill. Michael Hibblen, who reports for the radio station KUAR , went to the spill site on Wednesday with state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
Reporters Say Exxon Is Impeding Spill Coverage in Arkansas
Australians endured devastating bushfires, floods, and record-breaking heat waves during this year’s Southern Hemisphere summer . Per capita, Australia is one of the world’s biggest contributors to global warming — and it has also been among those hardest hit by its effects. But in recent years, the country has been doing more than most to rein in emissions and brace for climate change disaster.
Climate skeptic could run Down Under
Let the Shameless Debate Sandbagging Commence! | Politics Blog
Nothing is more time-honored — or hack — than Debate Sandbagging.
A Kentucky Republican running for Congress is taking heat for a misleading campaign ad featuring a coal executive.
Heath Lovell, Coal Executive, Poses As Miner In Ad For Republican Congressional Candidate Andy Barr
Mitt Romney Boca Raton Fundraising Video: Candidate's 'Inelegant' Words Caught on Tape
Let's get to the secret tapes from the campaign trail. It's "your voice, your vote. " With just 49 days to go, abc's david muir is here.
Paul Ryan: Marathon Time Claim Not True
Paul Ryan's campaign walked back comments the VP nominee made about running a marathon. "I had a two hour and fifty-something" marathon, Ryan said last week an interview.
Steve King echoes Akin
The ever quotable Rep. Steve King became one of the only conservative leaders to lend credence to Rep.
Missouri Republican Rep. and Senate nominee Todd Akin said in an interview Sunday that in the case of what he called "legitimate rape," the "female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." "From what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told local station KTVI-TV in response to a question about abortion and women's rights issues.
Congressman's Remarks About Rape and Pregnancy Rebuked on Twitter
Cheney says picking Palin for VP was a mistake - SFGate
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Mitt Romney's Own 2002 Testimony Undermines Bain Departure Claim
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's repeated claim that he played no part in executive decision-making related to Bain Capital after 1999 is false, according to Romney's own testimony in June 2002, in which he admitted to sitting on the board of the LifeLike Co., a dollmaker that was a Bain investment during the period. Romney has consistently insisted that he was too busy organizing the 2002 Winter Olympics to take part in Bain business between 1999 and that event. But in the testimony, which was provided to The Huffington Post, Romney noted that he regularly traveled back to Massachusetts.Harborside Health Center Targeted: Feds Go After 'Largest Pot Shop On The Planet' (PHOTOS)
SAN FRANCISCO -- An Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that has been billed as the largest pot shop on the planet has been targeted for closure by federal prosecutors in Northern California, suggesting that a crackdown on the state's medical marijuana industry remains well under way.Voter ID law may affect more Pennsylvanians than previously estimated
Under Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, various other forms of photo identification will be accepted at voting places in November, including U.S. passports, student identification cards with expiration dates, current military identification, and ID cards issued to government employees. But for most voters, the Pennsylvania driver's license is the standard photo ID.Despite overwhelming public support and powerful speeches from supporting countries, the IWC failed to pass the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary this afternoon. This comes to me as a big disappointment after yesterday’s great showing of enthusiasm for the whale sanctuary.