Soft spoken Harry Reid, the Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost his position as Senate Majority Leader to Mitch McConnell, dispelled all rumors that he will not be running for re election in 2016. According to Mr.Reid, “I fully intend to run.”
Senator Reid suffered severe injury to his right eye and several broken ribs while exercising at his home on New Years Day. He is scheduled to undergo surgery next week to move some broken facial bones, but told reporters the he and his doctors expect that he will make a full recovery.
Another victory for the NRA. Kansas lawmakers have introduced a bill that will make it legal for anyone to carry a concealed gun even if that person has no permit.
Just another way to get a gun into the hands of anyone who wants one. Criminals are all welcome.
Twenty-six of the Kansas Senate’s 40 members introduced a bill Wednesday to end the permitting requirement. The lead sponsor is Majority Leader and Nickerson Republican Terry Bruce.
Bruce said it makes sense to allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit because they already can carry firearms openly. He said the measure advances gun rights.
Lawmakers last year prohibited cities and counties from restricting the open carrying of firearms, though state law didn’t ban the practice. The state has issued concealed carry permits since 2007
The home where Adam Lanza lived will be demolished. Lanza, the crazed gunman who slaughtered 26 kids and educators in a Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown Connecticut, also killed his mother at the home.
CNN reports that the Newtown City Council voted unanimously to tear the house down. The house is valued around half a million dollars.
Lanza’s killing spree is considered one of the worst school shootings in America’s history.
One of the staples of The Cosby Show, ‘Theo Huxtable,’ broke his silence on the many sexual allegations against Bill Cosby, saying that although hearing women talk about sexual abuse is “painful,” Jamal Warner said that seeing and hearing the things coming out against his friend and mentor is “just as painful.”
“He’s one of my mentors, and he’s been very influential and played a big role in my life as a friend and mentor,” Warner, who once played Theo Huxtable, told Billboard magazine in an interview published Wednesday.
“Just as it’s painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it’s just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this,” he added.
Warner went on to talk about Cosby’s personal kindness to him, the comedian’s television legacy, and “[w]hat he’s done for the black community and education.”
“That’s the Bill Cosby I know,” he said. “I can’t speak on the other stuff.”
There are a lot of people in the Republican/Teaparty/Rand Paul/Whatever party, leaving a very confused Jon Stewart to asked, “How many f*cking people are at this tea party?”
Stewart’s confusion came from the fact that not 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, but 5. FIVE different responses to Tuesday’s State of the Union address came from that other party and still, no one knows what their message was.
Speaking about the rebuttal labeled ‘the official Republican response’ that was given by Joni Ernst, Stewart wondered if the address wasn’t more suitable as an “application essay to Nostalgia University.”
“That seemed like less of a response to the president’s address than an application essay to Nostalgia University,” Stewart said.“‘Nostalgia University: It was better when your dad went there.’”
Of course the officer denied that he was sleeping, but the student was pretty sure that the officer, sitting in his patrol car, did not leave the parking lot for at least 3 hours.
Watch what happened after Matt Fedora, a student at Southern Illinois University, approached the Carbondale cop and questioned why he is sitting in his patrol car for “the past 3 hours” and not out there fighting crime. To make a long story short, the cop vehemently denied he was sleeping, and then told the student that it was “illegal” to videotape a sleeping police officer.
“It’s perfectly legal to video (record) people in public, specifically police officers,” said Jane Adams, a Carbondale city councilwoman.
Carbondale Police Chief said that matter is being investigated.
The producers of Selma have teamed up with Black business leaders from around the country for an unprecedented initiative to give students free access to the Oscar-nominated film. So far, nearly 100,000 middle schoolers have taken advantage of the program in cities like New York, Atlanta, Miami and New Orleans, BET reports.
Due to popular demand, many more cities have been added to the program and nearly 120,000 tickets made available. To get their free ticket, students in the 7th, 8th or 9th grade can show their student ID or report card at any of the participating theaters. For a complete list of cities and theaters, visit SelmaStudentsTickets.com.
The expansion has been inspired by the overwhelming success of the program in New York City, in which 27 African-American business leaders created a fund for 27,000 of the city’s 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to see the film for free. That effort sold out in the very first weekend.
Yeah, she grew up poor alright. So poor that Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican Senator who gave the Republican’s official response to the State of The Union Address, said that as a kid, she had to put “plastic bread bags” over her “one good pair of shoes” to keep them from getting wet when it rained.
Reports now shows that Senator Ernst family collected almost half a million dollars in farm subsidies from the United States government.
Farm subsidy records indicate that the freshman senator’s father, Richard Culver, has received $38,395 in commodity subsidies and conservation payments, with all but $12 of the money being used for support of his corn crops. Ernst’s uncle, Dallas Culver, has reportedly received $250,000 in federal corn subsidies and $117,141 in additional aid. And her paternal grandfather, Harold Culver, got an additional $57,479 in aid between 1995 and 2001.
Ernst did not mention her family’s use of federal programs during her response to the State of the Union. Instead, she said she was raised “simply” and taught to live within her means.
“I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” she said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet. Our parents may not have had much, but they worked hard for what they did have.”
She later promised that the new Republican-controlled Congress would “propose ideas that aim to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget.”
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