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"I have threatened to run for public office, because I have been prodded to do so, and pushed hard in Texas and other states, and here in Michigan. So it's not off the table," Nugent explained [at a Google Hangout with Detroit radio station WCSX this week ... ] When asked if that answer was meant to be taken as confirmation that Nugent could see himself running for president, the singer simply replied, "That would be a, 'Sure, why not?'"
When asked if that answer was meant to be taken as confirmation that Nugent could see himself running for president, the singer simply replied, "That would be a, 'Sure, why not?'"
Voters in Minneapolis on Tuesday confronted a ballot containing 35 candidates for mayor and a potentially confusing process of choosing first, second and third choices in the race. The decision by Mayor R.T. Rybak not to seek a third term, paired with the city's unusually low $20 filing fee, prompted the flood of wannabe successors. And the system known as "ranked choice voting" — in place since 2007 but getting its first real test this year — eliminated the traditional primary election that would have winnowed the field.
The decision by Mayor R.T. Rybak not to seek a third term, paired with the city's unusually low $20 filing fee, prompted the flood of wannabe successors. And the system known as "ranked choice voting" — in place since 2007 but getting its first real test this year — eliminated the traditional primary election that would have winnowed the field.
A tractor-trailer carrying millions of bees blew a tire and overturned on Interstate 75 near Atlanta on Sunday, spilling honey all over the road. Local beekeepers and Monroe County emergency management personnel swarmed the scene to move broken containers containing bee hives and honey combs to grass on the side of the road. The clean-up closed two lanes of traffic and lasted several hours.
Local beekeepers and Monroe County emergency management personnel swarmed the scene to move broken containers containing bee hives and honey combs to grass on the side of the road. The clean-up closed two lanes of traffic and lasted several hours.
I have a question about the diplomatic value of all the NSA spying we've been reading about lately: Where's the tangible payoff for all this activity? With each week, it seems, we learn more about just how active and energetic the NSA has been. They've spied on our enemies, they've spied on our closest allies, and they've spied on us. The NSA's defenders have made various claims about thwarting terrors plots and the like, but these claims don't seem to stand up too much scrutiny. I repeat: Where are the big foreign policy and national security gains that we're reaping from this work?
A children's rights group in the Netherlands has pulled off an impressive online sting to unmask the identities of 1,000 predators who exploited young girls in webcam sex chat rooms. The group, Terre des Hommes, developed a computer-generated virtual "girl" dubbed "Sweetie" that on screen looks and moves like a real 10-year-old Filipino girl. Working remotely out of a warehouse in Amsterdam, the group signed in to public sex cam chat rooms posing as Sweetie, who was solicited by more than 20,000 predators over the course of 10 weeks.
The group, Terre des Hommes, developed a computer-generated virtual "girl" dubbed "Sweetie" that on screen looks and moves like a real 10-year-old Filipino girl. Working remotely out of a warehouse in Amsterdam, the group signed in to public sex cam chat rooms posing as Sweetie, who was solicited by more than 20,000 predators over the course of 10 weeks.