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Saturday, May 9
Hot-tempered New York Democrat Arrested for Assault on Photog
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 09 May 2009 06:56 PM EDT
State Sen. Kevin Parker was arrested in Brooklyn Friday night after a New York Post photographer told cops the hotheaded lawmaker attacked him for taking his picture. Post photographer William Lopez staked out Parker Friday for a story about how he was in danger of losing his house to foreclosure. The photographer may have also been covering a story that Parker allegedly got into it with a Capitol parking lot attendant, senate sources told the New York Daily News, but a state police spokesman could not confirm any record of a tussle. Lopez says that when the flash went off, Parker became enraged and began chasing him. "I turned around and ran and he was actually catching up to me,'' Lopez told the Post. "I turned a corner and ran half a block and he's chasing me the entire way.'' More>>>
Conservatives always face uphill climb
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 09 May 2009 10:41 AM EDT
Is conservatism over? Well, of course it is. Everyone from James Carville to Colin Powell says so. "The Republican Party is in deep trouble," Gen. Powell told some group willing to pay him serious money to deliver this kind of incisive insight. "Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans want more government in their lives, not less." And yet and yet… Last November, even with the GOP's fiscal profligacy, even with the financial sector's "October surprise," even with a cranky old coot of a nominee unable to articulate any rationale for his candidacy or even string together a coherent thought on the economy, even with a running mate subjected to brutal character assassination in nothing flat, even running against a charming, charismatic media darling of historic significance, even facing the natural cycle of a two-party system the washed-up loser no-hoper side managed to get 46 percent of the vote. OK, it's not 51 percent. But still: Obama's 53 percent isn't a big transformative landslide just because he behaves as if it is. More>>>
Chavez steals American oil company project
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 09 May 2009 12:13 AM EDT
Williams Companies (WMB.N) said the government seized two natural gas facilities in eastern Venezuela after building up millions of dollars in debts for services, adding it could demand payment through international arbitration. Military vehicles rolled through the streets of Ciudad Ojeda, on the shores of oil heartland Lake Maracaibo, where the government seized hundreds of boats and shipyards after Chavez signed a law to nationalize a group of oil service companies. "We have started to nationalize all these activities connected to oil exploitation," Chavez said from a confiscated boat sailing across the lake. "This is a revolutionary offensive." More>>> |
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