Blog Profile / Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Police Seeking Person Who Dumped 17 Puppies On Indiana Road
They were found abandoned near the Indiana dunes. Karen Read tells The Times in Munster that she spotted the puppies Friday night. She and some other local residents gathered up the puppies until a Porter County Animal Control officer could arrive and take them to the animal shelter. The mother dog was captured Monday. Officials [...]
John Edwards Back In Business
The former senator and vice presidential candidate has renewed his law license and is taking speaking dates. The two-time presidential candidate, former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee is scheduled to appear June 6 at a private retreat in Orlando, Fla., for lawyer clients of the marketing firm PMP… A records check with [...]
Bipartisan House Group Reaches Immigration Deal
But can they sell it to the rest of the House? The lawmakers did not provide details as they left a two-hour meeting Thursday evening, but said they would be working on drafting the measure. The development comes after talks among the eight-member group dragged on for months and appeared to stall over disputes including [...]
Obama To Congress: Fund Embassy Security
The president is asking congress to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama’s call was the second step in as many days designed to combat GOP charges that his administration misled Americas about the circumstances of the attack. Playing down the terrorist strike that killed four Americans came amid the presidential race, Republicans contend. Obama has [...]
Life Sentence For U.S. Sergeant Killing Five Fellow Service Members In Iraq
Sgt. John Russell was give the toughest sentence available. Sgt. John Russell will serve life without parole for shooting to death two care providers, two patients and an escort at the clinic in Baghdad’s Camp Liberty on May 11, 2009. “You are not a monster,” Army Judge Col. David Conn said at Russell’s sentencing, according [...]
What If Obama Went ‘Bulworth’?
by Stuart Shapiro Ezra Klein asks the question raised by the President himself– The New York Times reported Thursday that President Obama frequently fantasizes to close aides about “going Bulworth,” a reference to the 1998 movie in which Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty, drops all pretense and begins saying exactly what he thinks [...]
Racing Legend Dies Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Retired racing legend Dick Trickle died Thursday, reports the Lincoln County, NC sheriff’s office. Authorities say dispatch received a call around noon on Thursday, apparently from Trickle himself, who said, “There would be a dead body and it would be his.” The Lincoln County Communication Center tried to place a return call to the number, [...]
Second Top IRS Official To Leave
Joseph Grant was head of the IRS’s tax exempt and government entities division, who will retire June 3. Grant joins Steven Miller, who was forced to resign as acting IRS commissioner on Wednesday. As part of his duties, Grant oversaw the IRS division that targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for [...]
Abortion Dr.George Tiller’s Killer Threatens Woman Running His Clinic–From Jail
Scott Roeder, who shot and killed George Tiller in church spoke from prison with David Leach, an Iowa abortion opponent. Leach tells Roeder that if someone shot Julie Burkhart “it would be a blessing to the babies.” Roeder laughed, agreed and said, “To walk in there and reopen a clinic, a murder mill where a [...]
Obama To Name OMB Controller As New Acting IRS Commissioner
It will be senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel. Werfel will replace Steven Miller, ousted Wednesday amid revelations that the IRS improperly singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny. The 42-year-old Werfel is the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, a job akin to a chief financial officer. Though Werfel was appointed [...]
Pastor Arrested For Watching Child Porn At His Job–At Disney World
The Florida Methodist minister also worked as a custodian at the theme park where he was allegedly using a computer to download child porn and solicit minors. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office was alerted last month to Cedric Cuthbert’s on-the-clock activities by Disney, which noted that the 49-year-old was attempting to access blocked website through [...]
Prostitutes Banned From Linked In
Sex workers aren’t happy, and Sheri’s Ranch in Nevada said so on its site. “Legal prostitutes in Nevada are licensed and recognized by their county of employ as independent, taxpaying businesswomen. Nevada brothels are also licensed and recognized business establishments. These are legal businesses in reality, so why shouldn’t they have a presence in virtual [...]
President Obama States ‘Complete Confidence’ In Attorney General Holder
Reports of his demise may be greatly exaggerated. He has “complete confidence in Eric Holder as attorney general,” the president said at a joint White House news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Obama also said that while Americans live “in a democracy where a free press, free expression and the open flow [...]
Eagles Football Player Posts Photo Of Himself Urinating On IRS Building
Classy. Philadelphia Eagles lineman Evan Mathis added a photo of himself peeing on the IRS building to his Instagram stream yesterday. The offensive guard is seen standing in front of the Washington, DC IRS headquarters, his back to the camera, relieving himself on some signage… ‘Audit this,’ he tweeted, with a link to the photo.
Now The Legal Challenges To North Dakota’s Restrictive Abortion Laws
Forcing doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals is a way of cutting down the number of doctors who can perform abortions. Nancy Northrup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights said in a statement, “With their relentless campaign to end safe and legal abortion in North Dakota, lawmakers have effectively told [...]
Benghazi Review Board To Issa: Talk To Us In Public, Not In Private
Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen are refusing a request from Rep. Darrel Issa to meet in private, preferring a public airing. Thomas Pickering and Michael Mullen called the proposed closed-door proceeding an “inappropriate precondition” to their testifying before the committee in a letter sent Thursday to Issa, the [...]
Maryland Governor O’Malley Signs Sweeping Gun Control Bill
This is one of the broadest set of gun laws to be enacted since the Newtown tragedy. The law bans the sale of assault-style rifles, including the AR-15 used in the Newtown killing of six educators and 20 first- and second-graders. The law limits gun ownership for people with mental illness, outlaws the sale of [...]
Julian Bond: IRS Justified Going After Tea Party, A ‘Stalinist Religion’ Full Of ‘Cafeteria Christians’
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Civil rights icon and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond feels as though the IRS was justified singling out the Tea Party. When he he headed the NAACP in 2005, that group was under excessive IRS scrutiny for opposing the Bush administration.
Rand Paul: ‘I’m Not A Libertarian; I’m A Libertarian Republican’
And, added Paul, “a constitutional conservative.” He made the statement in Iowa while talking to religious Republicans. “I’m not advocating everyone go out and run around with no clothes on and smoke pot,” Paul insisted last Friday…“I’m not a libertarian. Show More Summary
Dzhokhar Left Note In Boat Explaining Boston Bombing
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note on the interior wall of the boat’s cabin as he was bleeding from a gunshot wound, according to CBS’s Jonathan Miller. The note, scrawled with a pen on the interior wall of the cabin, said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the [...]