Mike Huckabee has officially pulled the trigger —and his presidential aspirations are dead, at least for 2012. Huckabee officially announced that he will not run on his Fox News show tonight. “All the factors say go, but my heart says no,” he said. “I know that under the best of…
Continue reading …The head of the IMF has been taken into custody by New York City police and is being questioned in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel maid. An NYPD rep says Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an Air France flight to Paris this afternoon at JFK after he…
Continue reading …Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate today for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep. As the gate was raised, the…
Continue reading …Pioneer High School’s annual scavenger hunt sounded like good, clean fun. Emphasis “sounded like.” AnnArbor.com reports that 31 of the 250 students who participated in the hunt have been suspended for committing such offenses as defecating on the athletic fields of two rival Ann Arbor high schools, spray painting…
Continue reading …Ivy League schools cram high school students’ mailboxes full with glossy recruitment packages, only to greet them weeks later with far less appealing rejection letters. Critics say elite universities like Harvard and Columbia set up potential applicants for disappointment by wooing them with pamphlets, posters, and promise, pocketing hefty application…
Continue reading …The way Newt Gingrich has handled his marriages, and their demise , has long been poked and prodded, with one event in particular getting special attention . As the story goes, Newt visited first wife Jackie in the hospital where she was battling cancer … to discuss the details of their divorce. Some…
Continue reading …A Miami imam and two of his sons were arrested today on charges they provided financial support to the Pakistani Taliban, officials said. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, was arrested after morning services at the Miami Mosque; sons Izhar, 24, and Irfan Khan, 37, were arrested in Margate, Florida,…
Continue reading …Ten months after being forced out of the USDA, Shirley Sherrod is back. But Sherrod, who rejected an offer to return shortly after the Andrew Breitbart brouhaha, will have a new position as a contract employee, Politico reports. She will lead one of three field programs meant to improve the…
Continue reading …Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the Bay to Breakers, a famed 7.5-mile annual race from San Francisco Bay to the waves (aka breakers) of the Pacific Ocean—but don’t spike your Gatorade with champagne just yet. The race has long been a debaucherous one, complete with people clad…
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