Today’s threat level is yellow—as it has been since 2006—but it won’t be any color at all by the end of April. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce Thursday that the much-maligned five-color advisory code introduced after the September 11 attacks is to be scrapped, ABC reports….
Continue reading …Mexican drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the border have resorted to medieval methods. A pot-flinging catapult was seized after National Guardsmen in Arizona spotted it being used other side of the border and alerted Mexican authorities, AP reports. The smugglers got away but left behind their vehicle, 35…
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A coalition of 400 rabbis have had enough of Glenn Beck’s use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and attacks on George Soros . The group is urging Rupert Murdoch to sanction Beck and Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It has bought a full-page ad in one of Murdoch’s own papers, the…
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Continue reading …Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, according to bleaker-than- previous estimates from congressional budget experts. The massive retirement program has been suffering from the effects of the…
Continue reading …One of the knocks against elderly drivers is that, like Mr. Magoo, they just can’t see what’s in front of them. A new neurological study flips the premise and suggests that they see too much, reports Scientific American . The theory goes like this: Our brain takes in so much visual…
Continue reading …More evidence of Americans’ love affair with pets: Asked whether they’d dump their pet or their significant other if forced to choose, a full 14% said the human would go, according to a new AP/Petside poll. “I would absolutely give up my girlfriend for him,” one respondent said. “I know…
Continue reading …NBC snuffed out rumors that Alec Baldwin might replace Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, reports the Daily News . “Entertaining report, but untrue,” says a network spokesman. Which is a shame, writes Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon . “Like Olbermann, Baldwin has a magnetic television presence, a flair for getting attention, and a…
Continue reading …A continuing weak economy and last month’s bipartisan tax cut legislation will drive the government’s deficit to a record $1.5 trillion this year, a new government estimate predicts. The eye-popping numbers mean the government will continue to borrow 40 cents for every dollar it spends. The new Congressional Budget…
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