Archive | May, 2010

Barack Obama: Major Recipient of BP Donations

5. May 2010

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Hey, you know which politician oil company British Petroleum (BP) really seems to like? Barack Obama. In fact, according a report from The Politico, he’s the largest single recipient of donations from the company in two decades. He took $77,000 in political donations from the same oil company whose destroyed oil platform is on track [...]

Times Square Bomber Was Headed To Pakistan

5. May 2010

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We were told earlier that Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahza was on a flight to Dubai when the plane was turned around and he was taken into custody by federal authorities. But now the airline says he was actually headed to Pakistan via Dubai. Shahza is a native of Pakistan, becoming a naturalized [...]

Times Square Bomber Was Anti-War, Anti-Bush

4. May 2010

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You know how we’re supposed to keep an eye on those radical, dangerous conservative activists for their anti-big government rhetoric? What are we to do with these anti-Bush, anti-war folks actually trying to car bomb Times Square? I’m thinking internment camps ala World War II. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A real estate broker says the Times [...]

Good News: Phoenix Suns to Politicize Basketball

4. May 2010

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Over, you guessed it, the new legal status check law in Arizona. Because no area of your life can be left untouched by politics. The Phoenix Suns will wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys Wednesday for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals, owner Robert Sarver said, “to honor our Latino community and the diversity [...]

Criminal Complaint Against Faisal Shahzad

4. May 2010

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The official criminal complaint against Faisal Shahzad, the alleged Times Square car bomber, has been filed and posted online. The charges were filed in the Southern District of New York before Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox. The case is United States of America v. Faisal Shahzad. The complaint alleges Shahzad attempted to use a weapon [...]

Nuclear Bombing Oil Wells? It’s Been Done.

4. May 2010

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I honestly had no idea the Soviet Union had used nuclear weapons to close leaky oil wells. It sounds like something out of a science fiction tale or some badly-written email chain letter. But apparently it’s true: Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear [...]

Netherlands WWII Memorial Stampede Leaves Dozens Injured

4. May 2010

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The Netherlands was honoring the victims of World War II when a sudden and unexplained panic ripped through the crowd, sparking a stampede of bystanders and the evacuation of the royal family. Dozens have been left injured. Shortly after the incident began it ended, just as abruptly. Word came that nothing had actually occurred to [...]

MSNBC Host Bummed Tea Partier Wasn’t Responsible for TS Bomb

4. May 2010

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It’s Contessa Brewer, well known around these parts for often letting the mask slip and reveal her liberal biases. She’s really bummed that the Times Square car bomber was a jihadist and not some small government activist. Because, you know, the jihadist angle just feeds into bigotry. BREWER: I mean the thing is is that [...]

Report: Times Square Bomber Visited Training Camps

4. May 2010

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Pakistan has arrested eight individuals in connection with the attempted car bombing of Times Square on Saturday. The bomber himself, Faisal Shahzad, is a Pakistani native who became a naturalized American citizen just last year. So we already knew he had connections to the country. What we didn’t know is that he attended training camps [...]

Times Square Suspect to Appear in Federal Court

4. May 2010

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Faisal Shahzad, the man arrested by federal authorities for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square, will appear in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday. He will be formally charged at that time. Statement from the U.S. Department of Justice: “At approximately 11:45 P.M. EDT, Faisal Shahzad was taken into custody. Agents of the [...]