So, a reader asks, what is it the Alaska Senator has seen while presiding over the Senate that he can't share with the American people: Not every view from the dais is so inspiring, however. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) can recall more than one time that he saw something he wasn’t supposed to see. “There’s a lot of stories, and I probably can’t tell you that one,” he said, laughing. “Let me just say you see a lot of hand movements and gestures at times.”
Not every view from the dais is so inspiring, however. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) can recall more than one time that he saw something he wasn’t supposed to see. “There’s a lot of stories, and I probably can’t tell you that one,” he said, laughing. “Let me just say you see a lot of hand movements and gestures at times.”
“There’s a lot of stories, and I probably can’t tell you that one,” he said, laughing. “Let me just say you see a lot of hand movements and gestures at times.”
Rick Santorum fired a verbal salvo at early-education programs on Tuesday, telling an Iowa crowd that government pre-school programs are part of a hideous plot by the government to indoctrinate children. [...] "Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that."
"Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that."
Standing up before dozens of Suquamish Tribal members at a general council meeting in March, Heather Purser told them she was a lesbian, and asked her people to recognize same-sex marriages at the tribe's Washington state reservation. Even after four years of lobbying tribal members, the 28-year-old didn't know how much support she had. "When I turned around to sit back down I was shaking," Purser recalled Tuesday. Then the council put the issue to a voice vote of the people. "Everyone said aye. No one said nay," Purser said. On Monday, the Suquamish Tribal Council ratified the people's wishes and recognized gay marriage, making it only the second tribe in the country known to do so.
Even after four years of lobbying tribal members, the 28-year-old didn't know how much support she had.
"When I turned around to sit back down I was shaking," Purser recalled Tuesday.
Then the council put the issue to a voice vote of the people. "Everyone said aye. No one said nay," Purser said.
On Monday, the Suquamish Tribal Council ratified the people's wishes and recognized gay marriage, making it only the second tribe in the country known to do so.
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), who left the House in scandal after revealing he’d engaged in tickle fights with his young male aides, is now claiming he was the victim of a plot to remove him from office, an upstate New York newspaper reports.
Sarah Palin responded to unsubstantiated accusations that Joe Biden called the tea party "terrorists" over their role in the debt ceiling negotiation, saying President Obama should look into his own past with Bill Ayers if he wants to see "domestic terrorists."
That's right. An entire article featuring Sarah Palin's deep thoughts about an "unsubstantiated accusation." As for Palin's remarks?
Who cares?
The Alaska hair salon made famous for Sarah Palin's up-do is getting the reality show treatment in a two-part series to be aired in September on TLC. "This special goes inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create," says a press release from TLC.
"This special goes inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create," says a press release from TLC.
David Potorti recalls his mother's pain when his brother Jim was killed in the World Trade Center. Clutching her stomach, she cried out: "Jim. Jim. Jim." She said something else that made a lasting impression on him: "I don't want anyone else to feel the pain I'm feeling right now." Potorti channeled that grief into becoming a peace activist, joining a group of other relatives of Sept. 11 victims who responded to the attacks by spreading that message and working to prevent others — including civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan — from enduring the same kind of suffering.
She said something else that made a lasting impression on him: "I don't want anyone else to feel the pain I'm feeling right now."
Potorti channeled that grief into becoming a peace activist, joining a group of other relatives of Sept. 11 victims who responded to the attacks by spreading that message and working to prevent others — including civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan — from enduring the same kind of suffering.
When Action Comics issue No. 900 was released, what Superman had to say has lit a fire in the minds of conservative American reactionaries. The fictional character, not born on this planet, decides he will go in front of the United Nations and renounce his U.S. citizenship. That's right, Superman wants to become a world citizen. Of course, this fictional action taken by a fictional superhero has the uber-nationalistic American conservative movement fit to be tied. Here's a look at some quotes found around the web. [...] "This is another move by the leftist indoctrinated public sector to disengage from the only country in the world that really gives a hoot about the rest of the world. While not much surprises me in the media these days, this really took me by surprise. If this goes unanswered and unopposed, I think we can say goodbye to the greatest country in the history of the world," reads one of the more coherent comments. [...] "The Birth Certificate is a Fake," and he's "just following in the footsteps of our current president (being an alien from another land pretending to be American then letting it go very easy cause he never had it," are two examples.
Of course, this fictional action taken by a fictional superhero has the uber-nationalistic American conservative movement fit to be tied. Here's a look at some quotes found around the web. [...]
"This is another move by the leftist indoctrinated public sector to disengage from the only country in the world that really gives a hoot about the rest of the world. While not much surprises me in the media these days, this really took me by surprise. If this goes unanswered and unopposed, I think we can say goodbye to the greatest country in the history of the world," reads one of the more coherent comments. [...]
"The Birth Certificate is a Fake," and he's "just following in the footsteps of our current president (being an alien from another land pretending to be American then letting it go very easy cause he never had it," are two examples.