NEWS- Hannity’s Freedom charity is ‘huge scam’: conservative blogger March 19, 2010Fox News commentator Sean Hannity is routinely mocked by the left for his conservative positions, but now he has become the target of far more serious accusations from a fellow-conservative. Columnist and blogger Debbie Schlussel claimed on Friday that Hannity is profiting from a charity that raises money for severely injured US soldiers and the children [.. […]Muriel Kane
- ‘Amateur’ Steele deemed a ‘liability’ by most GOP insiders: survey March 19, 2010It's distressingly lonely at the top for RNC chairman Michael Steele. Even his GOP colleagues agree he's doing more harm than good to their cause, according to a National Journal survey released online Thursday. A whopping 71 percent of the 104 Republican insiders polled deem Steele a "liability" to the party, while only [...]Sahil Kapur
- Gay soldier arrested after chaining himself to White House fence March 19, 2010A prominent gay rights advocate and soldier being discharged under the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring openly gay members of the military from serving openly was arrested after chaining himself to the fence of the White House Thursday. The Advocate notes:Following a Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal at Fre […]Raw Story
- Report: Boy Scouts have covered up sex abuse for decades March 19, 2010The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The "perversion files," a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change [...]The Associated Press
- Saying insurance firms have ‘hostaged’ Congress, Democrat won’t vote for health bill March 19, 2010A liberal Democrat says he won't vote for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare bill, asserting that the measure is a giveaway to large health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. “We’ve paid the ransom, but at the end of the day the insurance companies are still holding the hostages,” Rep. Stephen Lynch said in an interview with the [.. […]Raw Story
- Best. Daily Show. Ever? Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck March 19, 2010Best. Daily Show. Ever? Jon Stewart opened his show Thursday night with a 15-minute parody of Fox News host Glenn Beck, lamenting what it means to be a progressive and capturing the exaggerated mannerisms of Beck to a 'T,' even donning the reading glasses that dangle down to the middle of his face. "I'm [...]Diana Sweet
- Scientists create fully-functioning, 3D invisibility cloak March 19, 2010WASHINGTON (AFP) – European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak," a study published Thursday in the US-based journal Science showed. Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial Colle […]Agence France-Presse
- President Obama signs multi-billion dollar jobs bill into law March 19, 2010President Barack Obama offered hope Thursday that the faltering US economy will soon create more jobs, as he signed a multibillion-dollar employment package to aid the fragile recovery. Signing into law a 17.6-billion-dollar measure designed to boost hiring, Obama said the economy was "beginning to move in the right direction," but admitted ordinar […]Agence France-Presse
- Bernanke footnote: Fed wants end to ‘minimum reserve requirements’ March 19, 2010In the footnotes of a speech U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke would have given to the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 10, lies a unique and startling disclosure. Hosted on the Federal Reserve's own servers, the written testimony of the bank's chairman explains in plain text what expanding the Fed's powers will do. […]Stephen C. Webster
- European researchers close in on invisibility cloak March 18, 2010European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak", a study published Thursday in the US-based journal Science showed. Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial College London used the […]Agence France-Presse
- Hannity’s Freedom charity is ‘huge scam’: conservative blogger March 19, 2010
