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MASSACRE: 27 Dead, Including 18 Children, At Sandy Hook School Shooting In Newtown
NEWTOWN—
Twenty-seven people, including 18 children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to the Associated Press.
Another person was found dead at 36 Yogananda St. in Newtown, sources told The Courant.
Read the whole story at Courant.com
TSA reportedly exposed breasts of Rep. Ralph Hall’s teen grandniece, called it ‘accidental’
The TSA just gets worse and worse.
Scott MacFarlane of Cox Media reports that a TSA agent exposed a 17-year-old girl’s breasts during a pat-down at LAX. The girl is said to be the grandniece of Texas Rep. Ralph Hall.
Read the whole story at Twitchy
If God Doesn’t Judge Us, He’ll Have to Apologize to Sodom (Conditional statement … because God owes no one an apology)
I have to admit that when Obama “won” re-election I became more depressed than Madonna’s audience was when they were forced to watch her strip the other night. For God’s sake, Madonna, put some material on that mess, material girl. I guess she’s going to follow Cher’s path and torture us with her exhibitionism ‘til […]
Tuesday Morning News Dump
Tuesday Morning News Dump
—BenK
Obama: The Man With A Plan
Andrew Sullivan Backs Off The Ledge
Obama’s Bayonets And Horses Line Fails Fact Check
Obama Ads Boost Enthusiasm For Romney
Looking Closely At The Candidates Statements On Foreign Policy
Krauthammer’s Take On The Debate
Media Really Loved That Stupid Horses And Bayonets Line
Will Cocooned Liberals Be Surprised By Romney
FL Republicans Receiving Fake […]
Why Does Candy Crowley Still Have a Job at CNN?
Journalism: If the mainstream press had any self-respect, presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley would be out of work today. Even by the media-bias standards we’ve come to expect, she set a new, unforgivable low.
In a pre-debate interview with the Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik, Crowley talked about how she saw her role as moderator.
“These are two […]
Newsweek Out of Print After 80 Years
We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.
Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well […]
$594 Billion: Social Security Payments Hit All-Time High
By the end of August, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Treasury, the federal government had already paid out record annual amounts in both Social Security and disability benefits during fiscal 2012—even though there was still a month left in the year.
In fiscal 2011–which ended on Sept. 30, 2011—the federal government paid a total of […]
Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination
The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.
American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to […]
Rosie O’Donnell Had Heart Attack Last Week
EXCLUSIVE: Rosie O’Donnell had a real and serious heart attack last week. She just blogged about it on www.rosie.com. Rosie nearly died from what is known the Widow maker. According to her posting shevwas 99 percent blocked. She received a stent during angioplasty and is home, recovering.
(Excerpt) Read more at showbiz411.com
Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Catching Rain Water on Own Property
Gary Harrington reports to Jackson County (Ore.) Jail to begin serving a 30-day term for collecting rainwater on his property. (Photo: Gary Harrington(CNSNews.com) – Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
“I’m sacrificing my liberty […]
Washington Post loses $15.9 million in Q2
The Washington Post continued to struggle in the second quarter even as its parent company reported 13.6 percent increases in profit.
The newspaper division, which includes the newspaper’s website and the online magazine, Slate, reported an operating loss of $15.9 million in the second quarter, compared to a $2.9 million loss for the same period a […]
CNN’s President Resigns
CNN President Jim Walton, who has been with the company for 30 years, has announced that he’s resigning. He will remain with the network until the end of the year.
“CNN needs new thinking,” Walton wrote in a note to staff this morning. “I have interests to explore, I need to give myself time to do […]
F-16 fighter jet crashes in Pacific near Kurils (Near Russia)
An American F-16 fighter jet went down in a Russian exclusive economic zone near the Kuril Islands on Sunday. The pilot successfully ejected before the jet plummeted into the waters below.
“The Kamchatsky territorial naval rescue center reported at 8:30 am local time (8:30 pm GMT) that an aircraft was in distress over the Pacific […]
Flash mob causes havoc at Walmart (Video)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
Flash mobs are known across the United Stats as a group of people, dancing, having fun and enjoying themselves while entertaining others.
However, the Wal-Mart off Lem Turner Road in Jacksonville fell victim to a flash robbery when more than 300 people entered the store and destroyed the security system as well as some merchandise.
According to the police report, the group destroyed […]
Bullied Bus Monitor Doesn’t Believe The Internet Donation Of $500,000 (And Counting) Is Real
The upstate New York bus monitor who was taunted and verbally abused by middle-school students doesn’t believe that the donations being collected on crowdfunding site Indiegogo are real.
Karen Klein has been the recipient of an amazing outpouring of sympathy and generosity after a video of her plight was posted on Reddit.
She has received letters, emails, flowers, Facebook messages and more than 24,000 […]
MSNBC on Romney Bus Tour: Wouldn’t it Be Interesting if His Bus Exploded? (With Video)
On Martin Bashir’s poorly rated MSNBC show, he introduced Mitt Romney’s bus tour today. The segment started off as normal, with Bashir introducing the show and the date. It was all downhill from there.
MSNBC then cut to a video of Romney, in which they made the video intentionally grainy, then repeatedly zoomed in on him […]
Chuck Colson Dies at 80; Remembered for Dramatic Faith Conversion, Life
Chuck Colson, who became a born-again Christian amid the Watergate scandal and later became the most prominent advocate for the spiritual transformation of prisoners, died Saturday afternoon, according to Prison Fellowship ministry. He was 80.
“Evangelical Christianity lost one of its most eloquent and influential voices today with the death of Charles W. ‘Chuck’ Colson. The […]
ZIMMERMAN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGEE MURDER
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, according to the Associated Press.
Additionally, Zimmerman has been taken into custody, but it hasn’t been revealed where he is being held.
CBSMiami has confirmed that State Attorney Angela Corey, who was appointed as a special prosecutor in […]
NBC Is Investigating How It’s News Edited The Audio To Make George Zimmerman Look Really Racist
During the Today Show, NBC aired a segment about the 911 calls surrounding the Trayvon Martin case.
But the segment edited the call to make Zimmerman sound like he was engaged in racial profiling.
Now NBC is launching an investigation according to Erik Wemple of the Washington Post.
In the edited audio that went on the air, George Zimmerman sounds […]
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home is actually the longtime residence of a married Florida couple, both in their 70s, who have no connection to the man who killed Trayvon Martin and are now living in […]