The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the "millionaire's amendment," a campaign finance law intended to level the field for House candidates facing wealthy opponents who spend lots of their own money. The law says that when candidates spend more than $350,000 from their own pockets, opponents may qualify to accept larger individual contributions than normally allowed and can receive unlimited coordinated party expenditures. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling that reflects skepticism of campaign finance overhauls, said the law violates the First Amendment.
Bolton, often labeled a resolute neo-conservative, believes the Israeli attack would take place sometime between the day after Obama's win and his inauguration on January 20 of next year.
In an interview with FOX News, Bolton says, "I think if they are to do anything, the most likely period is after our elections and before the inauguration of the next President."
Member States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were caught off guard in a meeting in Helsinki, Finland last week. They were expecting to discuss crimes motivated by racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and religious intolerance. Instead the OSCE staff presented them with a draft of a soon-to-be-published document that includes repeated references to “homophobia” and “transphobia.”
What would you do if you knew your family line would cease to exist… not at some distant point in time, but in the foreseeable future? What would you do if a human genocide was taking place RIGHT NOW, right under your nose, in countries around the world and RIGHT HERE in the United States?
A Brooklyn woman collected $370,000 in welfare benefits after claiming her husband abandoned her, even as he secretly paid for the children to attend religious schools, prosecutors said yesterday.
"Single" mom Farahnaz Arghavanifard, 40, and "deadbeat" dad Beny Levi, 50, were ordered held on $50,000 and $75,000 bail on charges of welfare fraud and grand larceny.
Prosecutor Frank Dudis said the couple scammed Medicaid, food stamps, and rent assistance.
In addition to allegedly supporting his wife and children with his $80,000-a-year job, Levi also allegedly paid the kids' tuition.
Scalia said the fact that the defendant caused the witness to be absent did not call for waiving his right to keep her statements out of court. The 6th Amendment says, "In criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses against him," Scalia noted. "We decline to approve an exception to the Confrontation Clause unheard of at the time of the founding or for 200 years thereafter," he said in Giles vs. California
At NRO, Victor Davis Hanson diagnoses our society as being in a chronic state of hesitation, a nation of “Jittery Hamlets:”...there is an inverse side to all this dithering: the rush to resolve gargantuan problems that do not exist: global warming, institutional racism, “Islamophobia,” American military overreach, etc. Hanson is right. Action brings risks. Perhaps the hand-wringers figure that treating a non-problem involves no risk.
Police said an Ypsilanti man is accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and hitting another woman over the head with a frozen chicken.
Frederick McKaney, 40, was arraigned in a Jackson courtroom on Thursday on two felony assault charges, one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer.
"He stabbed his mother in the back of the neck when she refused to give him money, and then, an hour later, he attacked a neighbor woman with a chicken," Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer told the Ann Arbor news.
The International Olympic Committee has lost patience with China, issuing an unusual criticism of the authorities for linking policy on Tibet to the Olympics. It acted after the ruling Communist Party's top official in the province used a ceremony to mark the Olympic torch's passage through Lhasa, the capital, on Saturday to launch a fresh attack on the Dalai Lama. ''Tibet's sky will never change and the red flag with five stars will forever flutter high above it,'' said Zhang Qingli, a noted hardliner.
Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals. The ads for Colt 45 malt liquor show comic book-style characters clutching bottles and cans of booze. ''Works every time,'' reads the slogan...A spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter said he would look into the matter. One of the Colt 45 ads is painted on a building next to a bicycle shop in the working-class neighborhood of Fishtown, a gentrifying area that still has many struggling families.
The AH-64 Apache in Action on the East River Range in Bagram, Afghanistan. This video was filmed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF V). It features the 30mm Canon, 2.75 inch Hydra Rockets, and AGM-114 Hellfire missile. Produced by Blackjack Film LLC.
It's too soon to say that Barack Obama is measuring the White House drapes, but he did size up an East Room press conference today. In a hotel ballroom here he met the press with great formality and all the trappings: - Formal podium (minus the faux-presidential seal he test drove last week), gleaming American flags, reporters seated in tidy rows marked off by velvet ropes
"If you want to live the never ending dream and experience the real love, life and the romance you have always felt was a fairytale then this is the vibrant outstanding woman of your dreams! To sweep this European Loving Lady off her feet send in your application right now."
Uh...no. Any woman that hot who has a problem finding a man has got to have 'issues.' I'll pass. -Riley
Look how ridiculous this guy is. You like murder, we get it. When you’re done playing dress up, get back to mopping them floors at Burger King. Actually, I’m guessing the 10% of this guy’s rhymes that aren’t about murdering people, are about how much he hates mopping the floors at Burger King.
I’ve contemplated Barack Obama’s plan to reform Social Security for long enough. I have only one question: why does Barack Obama hate me just because I’m young?
Obama’s plan to address the coming Social Security funding gap does not call for reducing benefits or changing the retirement age. Rather, he proposes to eliminate the cap on taxable social security wages for people earning more than $250,000. Obama would also eliminate income taxes for any retiree making less than $50,000 per year.
For the next four months we’re going to be inundated with Republicans calling this a “soak the rich” plan. Democrats will accuse Republicans of defending “CEOs cashing out while workers lose their pensions.” But what you won’t hear is anything about how the baby boomer generation is about to march off into retirement ill-prepared and unwilling to make any sacrifices. The selfishness which has defined a generation will follow them to their graves.
The best humorists couldn't come up with this stuff: Fillerup-Standing. Kumon-Topomi. And, my personal fave, Moore-Bacon. Each of these couples might make a perfect match, but the combination of their last names is something else. It's a joke, and in most of these cases — ahem, Rump-Orefice — it's a downright dirty joke. Hee, hee, hee. Click here to view more hilarious wedding announcements.
Glenn Sacks- For Christie Brinkley (pictured), apparently her anger at her husband is far more important than the welfare of her kids. Whereas most stars want their divorces private, she's fighting to keep it as public as possible.
To be fair, it sounds like Brinkley certainly had reason to be mad at soon-to-be-ex-husband Peter Cook over his infidelities and the harm he caused to their marriage. But having now married and divorced four separate times, it's doubtful that Brinkley is going to be giving lectures on "Why It's Important to Make Your Marriage Work" or "How to Be a Good Wife" any time soon.
The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court's 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.
Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army.
While on the J.D. Hayworth show, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer said that the men involved were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations.
When it comes to issues of childhood health and raising kids, mothers tend to dominate the discussion. But as the Web site PsychCentral points out today, fathers play an essential but often undervalued role in the health and development of children.
Have you ever thought rush hour on the 405 Freeway might be more bearable if you could check your e-mail, shop for a book on Amazon, place some bids on EBay and maybe even, if nobody is looking, download a little porn? Then perhaps you should be driving a Chrysler.
Surfing the web? Checking out porn on the highway? I have a great idea- how about driving the car?
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