Cruz is succeeding in plugging a vacuum of meaningful, and more importantly intelligent, conservative activism both in the Senate chamber and in US politics as a whole.
An administrative judge has vacated suspensions of two federal prosecutors who were disciplined by the Justice Department for their flagrant misconduct in prosecuting and convicting the late Senator Ted Stevens.
The U.S. Justice Department violated internal procedure in disciplining two federal prosecutors accused of ethical misconduct in the corruption case against Ted Stevens, a judge concluded in a ruling that voids the suspensions imposed on the two attorneys. Benjamin Gutman,...
The Justice Department has been repeatedly accused of prosecutorial misconduct in high-profile cases for terrorism cases in Detroit to the botched Ted Stevens case to the recent controversy in New Orleans. Many such allegations involved federal prosecutors not sharing evidence with defense counsel or the court — a long-standing problem for the Justice Department which [...]
By Amelia Mularz Grab your Beanie Babies and throw on a scrunchie, everything about this week seemed obsessively stuck in a bygone era. Steven Seagal made the news, Alex Winter and Keeanu Reeves (yes, Bill & Ted) both resurfaced, and we discovered that fans want to resurrect a past TV show (in movie form) so [...]
Summit Midstream Partners, LP (SMLP) Q4 2012 Earnings Call March 14, 2013 11:30 a.m. ET Executives Marc Stratton – Head, IR and Treasurer Steven Newby – CEO Matt Harrison – CFO Analysts Ethan Bellamy - Robert W. Baird Ted Durbin - Goldman...Show More Summary
Now is not the time for Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson to run and hide from the free-agent market, and specifically from running back Steven Jackson. There is little doubt that the Packers would love to see Jackson lined up in their backfield next season. Show More Summary
Steven Schwaitzberg had a great TED talk about developing a technology which combines video conferencing and a real-time universal translator while teaching laparoscopic surgery.
(Steven Hayward) Freshman Texas Senator Ted Cruz is one of the standouts among recently elected Republicans. I met him once back in the 1990s when he was a Supreme Court clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist; we engaged in a good natured...Show More Summary
When in 2008 Senator Ted Stevens was indicted on corruption-related charges, the very first word in ABC News's headline was "Republican." And the R-word was mentioned four more times in the story. But when ABC's Good Morning AmericaShow More Summary
Oscar voters gave Lincoln, umm, the 2012 version starring Daniel Day-Lewis and not our beloved Bill & Ted version, a most-excellent 12 nominations. See the full list of Oscar nominations here. Steven Spielberg and DDL most scored individual nods for director and best actor. Show More Summary
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Winter has sold his Midwestern militia pitch to AMC. The former Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure star will pen the hour-long drama with his writing partner Steven Pearl. Tentatively titled Rights of Bill, the show centers on a Sheriff who forms his own militia in Wisconsin, becoming both the law and an outlaw simultaneously. Show More Summary
As seapunk internet artist Yusuf Islam (neé Cat Stevens) says, it's a wild world. General Petraeus was schtupping his biographer for almost a year and we had no idea. Richard Nixon almost got away with Watergate. Ted Kennedy maybe probably killed a woman and was never charged. Show More Summary
If you didn't gather this from Steven Spielberg's Lincoln biopic, then Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan are back from the 1980s to tell us that the 16th President of the United States is most excellent, as is Socrates and Sigmund Freud. Ghengis Khan and Joan of Arc, on the other hand, are [...]
Anchorage's Ted Stevens International Airport was shut down for three hours early Sunday morning, leaving evacuated travelers shivering outside in the cold, all because soon to be jobless hockey referee Peter Friesema of Colorado made...Show More Summary
A bad bomb joke led to the main terminal of the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport being evacuated over the weekend, The New York Times reports. Although the hockey referee and inappropriate comedian said his comments were meant as a joke, the TSA was forced to clear the area until an investigation could be completed. [...]Show More Summary
[Video Link] Ted Balaker produced this video interview with Harvard experimental psychologist Steven Pinker, author of such books as The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and, most recently, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker tackles everything from the fallacy of the blank slate to the psychology of [...]
By Ted Galen Carpenter Almost before the embers had cooled in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that took the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other staffers, suspicion centered on Ansar al Sharia and the Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades, two North African radical Islamist factions loosely affiliated with al Qaeda. One of those groups [...]Show More Summary
Tenaha, Texas traffic-stop forfeiture scandal: town settles with ACLU [Thampy/Agitator; related, Steven Greenhut] A complaint about Progressive Insurance’s posture in an uninsured motorist claim goes viral on the Internet, and Ted Frank...Show More Summary
A pair of R-rated movies ruled the roost this past weekend. Both films — Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike and Seth McFarlane’s Ted — wildly outperformed expectations, with Mike grossing an astonishing near $40 million, while Ted opened to a robust $56 million. At first blush, the reason seemed to be
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