By The Admin on November 29, 2010
Nearly all the major candidates in Haiti’s presidential election called for Sunday’s election to be voided amid allegations of fraud and reports that large numbers of voters were turned away from polling stations throughout the quake-stricken country.
Twelve of the 19 candidates endorsed a joint statement denouncing the voting as fraudulent and calling on their supporters [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on November 29, 2010
Rep. Charles Rangel wants to tell House colleagues that censures are for corrupt politicians and he’s not one of them.
The House ethics committee voted 9-1 on Nov. 18 to recommend a censure of the 80-year-old Democrat from New York’s Harlem.
Rangel wants his punishment for ethics violations downgraded to a reprimand, according to congressional and nongovernment [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on November 27, 2010
A significant bloc of Republican National Committee members wants embattled chairman Michael Steele to step aside, but the rank and file have failed to settle on a clear alternative, according to Associated Press interviews with committee members.
More than four dozen interviews with members of the 168-member central committee found fear that a badly damaged Steele [...]
Posted in Featured, Party Politics
By The Admin on November 27, 2010
SpongeBob or cable TV news?
It’s apparently not a hard choice for Malia and Sasha Obama. President Barack Obama says his 12- and 9-year-old daughters would pick the talking yellow sponge over a talking head any day.
“They are not watching cable TV,” he told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday night. “If they have [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on November 26, 2010
A 78-year-old South Carolina man with more than a dozen weapons in his home has been arrested after federal authorities say he told a nurse he was thinking about killing President Barack Obama.
Michael Stephen Bowden was being held Friday at the Spartanburg County jail. Bowden was arrested recently after he told a nurse at a [...]
Posted in South Carolina, White House
