Disgraced Miss Nevada Katie Rees Arrested in Connection With Police Assault

Feb 06, 2008 - From Fox News. Disgraced Miss Nevada Katie Rees Arrested in Connection With Police Assault Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Dethroned Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees was arrested Wednesday in connection with the assault of a police officer, FOX5Vegas.com reports. Rees, who lost her crown in 2006 after racy photos of her emerged on the Internet, was arrested shortly before 3 a.m. - 5 Comments

Do You Live in a Healthy or an Unhealthy State?

Nov 17, 2009 -   If you want to be healthy, live in Vermont—or at least act like you do. It is the healthiest state in the country, according to a new report from the nonprofit United Health Foundation. The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths. - 5 Comments

Officers missed kidnap victim on 60 visits to Garrido's home

Nov 04, 2009 - SACRAMENTO — A blistering new report concludes that state corrections officials failed repeatedly to properly supervise accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido for 10 years, missing numerous opportunities to discover that he had allegedly kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch-area backyard during the entire time California authorities were supposed to be keeping watch over him. Among the mistakes by state parole agents who supervised Garrido from 1999 until his latest arrest in August was a failure to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender, why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard and why agents took no action when they received information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms. A four-page executive summary of the audit by California Inspector General David R. - 8 Comments

Obama's approval rating by state

Nov 03, 2009 - http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/02/latest-round-up-of-obama-poll-ratings-by-state/   Latest Round-Up of Obama Poll Ratings by State Posted: 11/2/09 Filed Under:Barack Obama, Guns, Polls, Obama Administration, Poll Watch 185 Comments + Join the discussion »

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Here's our latest sampling of recent polls that tested President Obama's job approval or favorability ratings at the state level. It's not a scientific or necessarily representative sample, just a roundup of what's available. Updated states are: Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. - 7 Comments

Film Targets Celebrity Journalism

Oct 27, 2009 - LONDON — What do Amy Winehouse's flaming beehive and Guy Ritchie's self-inflicted black eye have in common? Both stories appeared in the pages of Britain's tabloid press. Neither is true. - 9 Comments

More Than 300 Arrested in Two-Day Nationwide Takedown

Oct 23, 2009 - This is a loooong story, so I will cut it down for you. You can find the full story here http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/October/09-ag-1135.html October 22nd 2009 WASHINGTON – Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics as part of a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Project Coronado." The group first made headlines in Sept. - 5 Comments

More Than 300 Arrested in Two-Day Nationwide Takedown

Oct 23, 2009 - This is a loooong story, so I will cut it down for you. You can find the full story here http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/October/09-ag-1135.html October 22nd 2009 WASHINGTON – Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics as part of a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Project Coronado." The group first made headlines in Sept. - 15 Comments

Obama Threatens Insurers’ Anti-Trust Exemption

Oct 17, 2009 - By PETER BAKER (NYT) WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws. In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own “profits and bonuses” and willing to “bend the truth or break it” to stop his drive to remake the nation’s health care system. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address to challenge industry assertions that legislation will drive up premiums. - 0 Comments

Who Killed California?

Oct 15, 2009 - by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post.  The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages.  It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your  mind up what to believe before reading. - 29 Comments