Tag Archive: “Conservative news”

on July 13, 2013 in World News

Canadian military investigating Afghanistan sex assault

                        Probe investigates claims Canadian soldiers told by superiors to ignore incidents in which Afghan boys were assaulted by allied soldiers After five years, the Canadian military is still investigating claims that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were told by their superiors to ignore incidents where Afghan soldiers and interpreters sexually assaulted young boys. The probe continues, with no specified end date, a Canadian Forces spokesperson said, long after most Canadian soldiers have left Afghanistan and nearly five years after a board of inquiry was convened on Nov. 21, 2008,… View Article

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on July 13, 2013 in World News

Army special-operations helicopters buzzed the Port Angeles area late Thursday night that the mayor says “terrorized my city.”

              PORT ANGELES — Army special-operations helicopters on a training exercise buzzed the  Port Angeles area late Thursday night in an episode that the mayor says “terrorized my city.” An Army official apologized Friday for the unannounced training mission. Dozens of alarmed residents called police to ask what was going on and said the noise and lights panicked horses and other livestock. “They terrorized my city,” Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd said Friday. “No one had any warning about the helicopters, no one said anything afterwards, and today city officials had to spend hours… View Article

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on July 13, 2013 in World News

Group Sues Town That Requires Citizens to Own Firearms

Gun Control Group Sues Town That Requires Citizens to Own Firearms                         An ordinance passed by a small town in Georgia requiring residents to own guns has sparked a battle between the town and a national gun control group about the constitutionality of the law and gun rights in general, according to the Associated Press. Nelson, Ga., is a town of a little over 1,000 people located about an hour north of Atlanta. The Nelson City Council passed a law called the Family Protection Ordinance in April that required… View Article

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on July 13, 2013 in World News

Unhinged! Crowd wears diapers to fling poo

AUSTIN – Texas police have confiscated numerous jars of feces and urine, paint, tampons, maxi-pads and even bricks that pro-abortion activists had planned to throw at pro-life lawmakers who are preparing to pass a late-term abortion ban in the state, according to reports. The protesters have littered the state Capitol building with orange papers shaped like footprints that state, “Maternal death from illegal abortion.” “Stand with Texas Women” protesters have been spotted wearing diapers filled with toilet paper they presumably intended to throw at members of the Senate. Several witnesses confirmed that toilet paper disappeared from most women’s restrooms at… View Article

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on July 13, 2013 in World News

White House holds Obamacare background briefing with liberal reporters

                                      The White House held a background briefing Friday to discuss Obamacare implementation with a handful of journalists from liberal and progressive outlets. Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias posted a photograph to Instagram Friday featuring himself and other liberal journalists at the White House, with the caption “#thistown.” Yglesias’ photograph features American Prospect staff writer Jamelle Bouie and MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin attending the briefing. Yglesias, who publicly cheered the death of conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, is known as a member of a tight-knit… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

MPs’ pay rises to £74,000

MPs’ pay rises to £74,000 — but they must explain why they’re worth it MPs should be given a large salary increase of around 10 per cent but be forced to submit an “annual report” to show what they have done and achieved during the year, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has said. Members of Parliament are facing public outcry after it was announced that they are in line for a pay hike of around 10 per cent to £74,000 – while the rest of the country continues to suffer austerity measures. It comes despite the independent regulator admitting that… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in Other Folk's Videos

Clueless reporter doesn’t get Sarcasm

‘He keeps up the act right through to the end. The interviewer doesn’t seem to realise he’s listening to a satirical performance of the highest caliber. Maybe it’s only the US government and the compliant media that needs irony training sessions. Otherwise people like this man will take the piss out of them endlessly without breaking a single rule in the book. The crowd will just love it. Maybe irony was invented to deal with earlier versions of bone-headed authoritarian rule in history, as delivered in the past by the total power of kingship in Britain.’

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society

Pew Poll: 27 Percent Say Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society                     The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life find that the military are still highly esteemed by the American public. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78 percent) agreed that employees of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84 percent years ago, Not so for journalists. About as many U.S. adults now say journalists contribute “not very much” or “nothing at all” to society… View Article

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