Sure, Jared Loughner might have shot a Democrat, but in Rush Limbaugh’s fevered imagination, Democrats are in his corner and trying to get him off the hook. “What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country,” Limbaugh declared on his…
Continue reading …Don’t want to pay your dog tax? Then your dog will be executed—at least, that’s how one Swiss village is handling the problem. A Reconvilier official says the town—population 2,245 humans, 280 canines—can legally kill a dog if its owner doesn’t cough up the $50 annual…
Continue reading …Australia’s vast floods shut down the center of Brisbane today, sending thousands fleeing and others to stores in a panicked rush of food hoarding. Rescuers, meanwhile, combed the area for 43 people who have gone missing. Brisbane is the country’s third-largest city, home to 2 million people. Floodwaters are expected…
Continue reading …How quickly golden-voiced homeless man Ted Williams went from celebrated comeback story … to scandalous Entertainment Tonight headline. Williams and his daughter went on the show last night to talk about Monday night’s run-in with the LAPD, which resulted in Williams being detained . Williams was in California for an episode…
Continue reading …Two-thirds of American pet owners believe their pets are psychic—about the weather, at least. And a whopping 43% say their pets have a sixth sense about bad news, a new survey shows. Pet owners relate stories of dogs and cats alerting them to thunderstorms, earthquakes, seizures, panic attacks—one…
Continue reading …Sarah Palin called it “incomprehensible why a single, evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day” in her first extended statement about the Arizona shootings—and then moved from addressing the tragedy to addressing the blame game surrounding it. “Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits…
Continue reading …Hezbollah is threatening to withdraw from Lebanon’s uneasy unity government, collapsing it and plunging the country into its worst political crisis since 2008. A government official tells the New York Times that 11 of the country’s 30 cabinet members will resign today, complaining that the cabinet hasn’t renounced a UN-backed…
Continue reading …If you’re determined to get a great job, you might want to quit your course of study at Cornell or Dartmouth and transfer to one of the “top 5″ schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Wharton. A new study shows that recruiters for the best law firms, investment banks, and…
Continue reading …Oil will begin flowing once more through the trans-Alaska pipeline, which has been shut down since Saturday . Approval was given yesterday for an “interim restart” of the 800-mile line, which will allow some oil to resume flowing through an alternative pipe while workers continue to build a bypass line to…
Continue reading …Jared Loughner sought help and advice from a community of online gamers, postings unearthed by the Wall Street Journal show. “Does anyone have aggression 24/7?” he asked last May in a forum associated with the game Earth Empires. Loughner complained about being spurned by women and having trouble finding a…
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