Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), raised more than $4 million from April through June, breaking a state fundraising record.
In a press release, her campaign also announced that Grimes had pulled in a total of $11.3 million in her U.S. Senate run and had $6.2 million cash on hand at the end of June.
The $4 million-plus raised in a single quarter surpasses the previous $2.9 million record for a Senate race in Kentucky — a record that McConnell set in 2008.
“Kentuckians are coming together to invest in our campaign because they recognize that Alison Lundergan Grimes will bring a new generation of leadership to the U.S. Senate,” Grimes campaign manager Jonathan Hurst said in a statement.
It’s laughable indeed. These people have been on a rampage against everything woman and especially against women’s contraception. But now, in this election year, Republicans are trying to appear pro contraception, and it’s hilarious seeing the pretzel formations they’re twisting themselves into.
On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats introduced a measure to override the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Hobby Lobby and clarify that for-profit companies must offer contraceptive coverage, their Republican colleagues announced some forthcoming legislation of their own. As the Hill reports, GOP leadership will introduce a bill that appears to be supportive of women’s access to birth control.
“We plan to introduce legislation this week that says no employer can block any employee from legal access to her FDA-approved contraceptives,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. “There’s no disagreement on that fundamental point.”
If the final bill is along the lines of the initial reports, however, the GOP’s competing legislation likely wouldn’t do anything to change the status quo or ensure that Hobby Lobby employees have insurance coverage for contraception. Instead, it’s simply a way for Republicans to reinforce the point that the high court’s ruling on Hobby Lobby doesn’t inhibit women’s legal access to birth control.
The fact that women are still allowed to purchase every type of FDA-approved birth control has become the central argument used to downplay the impact of the Hobby Lobby case. Of course, it’s certainly true. Contraception remains legal, and the decision to allow some for-profit companies to refuse to cover some types of birth control on religious grounds doesn’t mean that all IUDs, for example, are now banned.
But legality isn’t exactly the same as accessibility. And the Hobby Lobby case was about the latter.
So far, 32 of those busted have been convicted and the other cases are pending. Two cases of child porn allegedly happened on Disney property.
Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler said these scary arrests represent only a tiny fraction of the company’s workforce.
“Providing a safe environment for children and families is a responsibility we take very seriously. We have extensive measures in place, including pre-employment and ongoing criminal background checks and computer monitoring and firewalls,” she said.
“The numbers reported by CNN represent one one-hundredth of one percent of the 300,000 people we have employed during this time period. We continue to work closely with law enforcement and organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as we constantly strengthen our efforts.”
Derek Jeter’s days with the Yankees are coming to an end and in honoring his work, Nike has released this touching video featuring New York’s favorite Yankee, #2. The new Nike Jordan Brand ad, titled ‘RE2PECT,’ features baseball fans and New York’s finest giving Jeter a tip of their hat in honor of the World Series champ’s farewell season.
There is a sickening trend happening these days with so-called “parents” leaving their kids locked in cars on hot days. In a few of these cases, the little helpless kids are killed. So imagine the frantic scene in Texas when passerbys heard children crying in a locked car, on a hot 98 degrees day, and the so-called parent was no where in sight.
They did the only thing any good Samaritan would do – they took a hammer and smashed the glass to free the two small children trapped inside.
The so-called “parent” later ran out of a beauty salon. She claimed she wanted to get her hair washed and left her kids locked in the hot car.
The cops were not called. I cannot understand why.
She was in a heated discussion and needed to make a point. She slammed the butt of her gun on the floor to emphasize her point and BANG! The gun discharged, shooting her in the face.
A 51-year-old woman accidentally shot herself in the face after she slammed the butt end of a shotgun on the floor, causing it to discharge, the Tuscola County Sheriff’s Department reports.
Deputies were called about 10 a.m. Monday, July 14, to a house on Waterman in Fremont Township for a report of a gunshot victim.
Upon arrival, deputies found that a family dispute had taken place and the victim, a 51-year-old woman, told officers that she had taken a shotgun out to “make a point.”
She told police she slammed the butt end on the floor, the gun discharged, and she was shot in the face.
FlightCare transported the victim to St. Mary’s of Michigan in Saginaw, and she is expected to recover, police said. The complaint remains under investigation.
The 27 year old man from Mexico apparently thought dying was better than living in his homeland.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent near 1st Street saw the man scaling the fence with a rope on the Mexico side about 7 p.m. As the agent approached, the man wrapped the rope around his neck, hanging himself on the U.S. side of the fence, Border Patrol Agent Eduardo Jacobo said.
The agent grabbed the man by his legs, elevating him to release the pressure around his neck, until another agent arrived to help, a Border Patrol news release said. At some point, the rope came loose and the agents lowered the man to the ground.
The man wasn’t breathing and was unresponsive, the release said. An agent was able to revive him.
The man, identified only as a citizen of Mexico, was taken by ambulance to Calexico Regional Medical Center for evaluation.
The FBI’s investigation broke this news. The unimaginable conclusion that some police officers in Florida were active members of the KKK… Oh, wait… we are talking about Florida here… carry on then, no news here!
Police morale in Fruitland Park, Florida has been shaken after a deputy chief and officer resigned when the Federal Bureau of Investigations identified them as members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented Chief Terry Isaacs with copies of a confidential FBI report last week that allegedly identified Deputy Chief David Borst and Officer George Hunnewell as members of the KKK.
Earlier this year, a Florida Klan leader boasted to WFTV 9 that the organization has “police officers, paramedics, judges…everywhere.”
However, Chief Isaacs would only tell reporters for the Orlando Sentinel that the pair belonged to a “subversive organization,” because he did not believe he was authorized to release the results of the report.
“It’s a tough situation. He was my assistant,” he said, adding that he never witnessed any behavior that would lead him to believe former Deputy Chief Borst was in the KKK. “But I’ve read the report, and it’s convincing.”
Chief Deputy State Attorney Ric Ridgway — from whom Isaacs sought counsel concerning the FBI’s report — told the Orlando Sentinel that “it’s not a crime to be a member of the KKK, even if you are the deputy chief. It’s not a crime to be stupid. It’s not a crime to hate people. It may be despicable, it may be immoral, but it’s not a crime.”
The loss of two officers is significant for a town that only employs 13 full-time cops. “They’re a good group of people,” Isaacs said. “The last thing I was expecting to hear in the year 2014 was for a professional law-enforcement officer to be a member of a subversive organization.”
Mr. Morgan was seen exiting his home in Cresskill, N.J., walking with the aid of a walker. As he entered a black Lincoln Navigator, Morgan made eye contact with photographers and showed a victory symbol with his trademark smile. As the car drove closer to the photographers, Tracy was asked how was he doing.
“I’m OK, I feel strong,” he said.
“Love you, thank you very much. Appreciate it,” he added, to applause from the small gathering.
Morgan’s friend, James McNair was killed in the accident when a Wal-Mart truck slammed into the vehicle they were traveling in. Morgan suffered a badly broken leg and several broken ribs.
Tracy Morgan has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart.
The union sent out this notice to its workers after negotiations between the MTA and the Union broke down. Accordint to the notice, the strike will begin on July 20, but riders are warned to expect slowdowns to begin as early as Wednesday, four days before the full strike begins.
Pastor Duane Youngblood of the “Higher Call World Outreach Church” in Pittsburgh is once again under arrest.
The pastor and author of the book “Freedom From Homosexuality: No Longer Living The Lie,” is being charged for sexually assaulting a boy he was supposed to be counseling.
CBS reports that according to the victim, the abuse started in 2009 and ended in 2011 when he was a freshman in college and told Youngblood he didn’t want to be counseled by him anymore.
Youngblood reportedly asked the teen not to tell his mother “because he didn’t want to get into trouble.”
The pastor has a previous arrest record. In 2002, Youngblood was arrested for molesting a 15 year old boy. He was sentenced to one year of intermediate punishment and seven years’ probation.
And get this, Pastor Youngblood is also a registered sex offender.
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