Rick Perry’s busy day, one being perceived as his camp’s attempt to recharge his flagging campaign , continues in South Carolina as he rolls out his flat tax plan. A key quote from his speech: “Taxes will be cut across all income groups in America, and the net benefit will be…
Continue reading …A CDC committee voted overwhelmingly today to recommend the HPV vaccine for boys as well as girls, reasoning that it will protect them from some cancers of the penis and rectum, while also preventing them from transmitting HPV to the people they sleep with. Twelve panel members voted for the…
Continue reading …The official message from Democratic leadership is that no one considers President Obama to be a political liability. However, as next year’s election race heats up, there are growing signs that Democrats in battleground states aren’t exactly clamoring for the president’s help. In Obama’s trips to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North…
Continue reading …Sony is making a Steve Jobs movie based on the biography by Walter Isaacson, and none other than Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is being courted to write it, the Los Angeles Times reports. A source says Sorkin is considering the idea, but neither Sorkin nor Sony gave an official…
Continue reading …Wounded Syrian protesters would be well-advised to avoid state-run hospitals—because security forces and medical staff are torturing people within them, Amnesty International alleges in a new report. “Syrian authorities seem to have given the security forces a free rein in hospitals,” one Amnesty researcher said, according to the Guardian…
Continue reading …Michael Lohan was arrested just after 1am today on suspicion of domestic violence charges, and is currently cooling his heels in a Tampa jail, TMZ reports. Police confirm that the reported fight was between Lohan and none other than Kate Major, who also accused him of abuse last year (and…
Continue reading …With trust in government at an all-time low and independent voters identifying with Republicans over Democrats by a two-to-one margin, it’s “suicide” for President Obama to try being a partisan fighter, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Obama was elected to be a conciliator, not a fighter, and…
Continue reading …Everyone’s favorite child bride Courtney Stodden was just trying to have some “innocent fall fun” at a pumpkin patch with her hubby this weekend when a bunch of “Halloween scrooges” got them kicked out, Anderson Cooper complained last night on the Ridiculist . “She had no other choice but to walk…
Continue reading …The US first caught wind of Iran’s alleged plan to assassinate a Saudi diplomat when Manssor Arbabsiar contacted Mexico’s Zeta cartel to do the deed—and wound up talking to a DEA agent. But that DEA agent wasn’t specifically targeting Arbabsiar—he was just one of several spies the DEA…
Continue reading …Just one week after announcing her breast cancer diagnosis , Giuliana Rancic was back to work at E! News last night. “I’ve got to say, I feel great. My surgery went very, very well,” she at the open of the show. “I still do have a bit of a road ahead…
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