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on February 7, 2014 in World News

Was Jay Leno Canned by NBC For Criticizing Obama?

Was Jay Leno Canned by NBC For Criticizing Obama? The day after Jay Leno signed off on 22 years of hosting The Tonight Show, suspicions still abound as to why he was canned despite still being on top of the ratings. Could the fact that Leno was the first mainstream comedian to criticize Obama on sensitive issues such as Benghazi-gate have contributed to him being ejected by NBC? Whereas virtually every late night comic has made superficial sideswipes at Obama in recent years, Leno took the unusual step of taking a conservative talking point, Benghazi-gate, and incorporating it into his… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

Nationwide Gun Confiscation Is Goal of Mayors

Nationwide Gun Confiscation Is Goal of Mayors Poughkeepsie, N.Y. mayor says he left the group over confiscation plans A current New York mayor has publicly announced his decision to leave Mayors Against Illegal Guns because the gun control group demands an all-out “confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.” Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns in 2006 to promote gun control. In an announcement published by his city’s newspaper, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Mayor John C. Tkazyik said he quit the group after realizing it was simply a vehicle for Michael Bloomberg to “promote his personal gun-control… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

TSA Agents Interrogate lady reading Conservative Newspaper

      TSA Agents Interrogate lady reading Conservative Newspaper Award winning Jewish author Phyllis Chesler was questioned and had her bag searched at New York’s JFK Airport as a result of a TSA agent’s suspicions over the fact that she was reading a conservative newspaper. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon after Chesler’s flight to Florida was delayed due to the recent ice storms. As soon as Chesler pulled out a copy of The Jewish Press, a popular English language weekly with a conservative political bent, a TSA agent eyed her with suspicion, approached the author and asked to see… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

Clint Eastwood saves golf director from choking

      Clint Eastwood saves golf director from choking Clint Eastwood added another starring role at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am – life saver. Eastwood attended a volunteer party on the eve of the PGA Tour event when he noticed tournament director Steve John choking on a piece of cheese. The 83-year-old actor quickly performed the Heimlich maneuver Wednesday night at the Monterey Conference Center. “I was drinking water and eating these little appetizers, threw down a piece of cheese and it just didn’t work,” John said Friday. “I was looking at him and couldn’t breathe. He recognized… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

The Donald vs Cuomo

With speculation building that he may jump in the campaign for New York governor as a Republican, Donald Trump is now taunting Democrat incumbent Andrew Cuomo. “Andrew Cuomo is obviously scared of me and now stealing my proposals,” Trump said in an email to Breitbart News. The real estate magnate, television star, and conservative provocateur was referring to Cuomo’s conservative policy of reducing toll fares to cross Staten Island’s Verrazano Bridge—a policy that Trump first proposed more than a month ago. “However, his toll cut is minuscule compared to the 50% cut I would deliver on day one as Governor,”… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

Woman Shoots Boyfriend After Being Punched, Dragged Across Floor

      Woman Shoots Boyfriend After Being Punched, Dragged Across Floor Orangeburg, South Carolina Sheriff Leroy Ravenell cited self defense for a woman who shot her enraged boyfriend after he beat her and dragged her through the yard and across the floor on February 2nd. According to the Post and Courier, 24-year-old Jeremy Scott Williamson “became enraged after looking in his girlfriends’s purse and finding papers where he was listed as a suspect for a crime in another jurisdiction.” After he argued with her about the papers and refused to let her call her mother to come get her,… View Article

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on February 7, 2014 in World News

Did Croatians replace locals on oilpatch?

                      Did Croatians replace locals on oilpatch? The federal government is investigating an allegation that several dozen Canadians working in Alberta’s oilpatch were laid off this week and replaced with foreign workers. A spokeswoman with Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s office said Thursday that he has asked for an urgent review. The Alberta Federation of Labour said that 65 of its ironworkers were laid off on Tuesday. The workers’ paystubs say they were being paid by a company called Pacer Promec Joint Venture. Federation president Gil McGowan said the employees were… View Article

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