President Obama named Secret Service agent Julia Pierson today as the director of that agency, making her the agency’s first female to assume that role. The agency has come under fire recently for a prostitution scandal that happened during preparations for the President’s trip to Colombia last year. Pierson will be taking over from Mark […]
Steve Katz, a New York State assemblyman from the Hudson Valley who voted against the legalization of medical marijuana last year was charged with marijuana possession after he was stopped for speeding, the authorities said on Friday. Assemblyman Katz was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation that is punishable by a fine of up to $100. […]
By William Boardman [email protected] The same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was promising a “fair and transparent” review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast, the CEO of the company building that pipeline, TransCanada’s Russ Girling, was reported as saying that his company’s “Plan A” […]
Novelist and blogger Douglas Anthony Cooper has created a new petition on Change.org asking President Barack Obama to draft Ted Nugent into military service. Entitled “President Barack Obama: Draft Ted Nugent to Serve on the Front Lines in Afghanistan,” the petition states: Ted Nugent, draft dodger, should have the opportunity to redeem his sullied reputation, so that […]
WTWO News reported that a group of Christian students, parents and other members of the community in Sullivan, Indian,a are looking to ban LGBT people from the prom at Sullivan High School. Special education teacher, Diana Medley, agrees with the idea and doesn’t believe anyone is born gay and she finds homosexuality offensive. She goes so far […]