Tea Partying New York Strip club mogul says IRS also targeted him for his Tea Partying beliefs. “I was the loudest voice in the state of New York for the Tea Party movement.”
Top Utah gun right lobbyist arrested on domestic violence charges. If convicted, could lose arsenal.
If you didn’t follow the trials and tribulations of the Bush Justice Department — or you did and your memory is fading — then the significance of President Obama naming James Comey to be FBI director may be lost on you. Comey was one of the good guys in a very dark period for the department and for the country. The complete story of that period still remains unknown, but it began to unravel in part with the U.S. attorney scandal in 2007. Read More
In case you’re catching up, the big news today out of the Mayor Ford Crack Smoking scandal is that the day after the story broke the Mayor told staff not to worry since he knew where the video was being kept.
2 year old shoots and kills himself with handgun at great-grandparents home.
Toronto Mayor and purported crackhead Rob Ford is scheduled to speak to reporters at 4:30 PM. So far two staffers in Ford’s office have quit today.
If you have nothing better to do than hang around on Twitter in the evenings, you may remember that a couple nights ago there was a momentary full bore scare about a bomb going off in a trash can at Disneyland’s Toontown. It turned out it was a ‘dry ice bomb’ and no one got hurt. But not before a lot of people got pretty scared and a few ordered up Toontown Strong t-shirts. But now they’ve charged the ice bomber, Disneyland employee Christian Barnes.
The upside of the rash of departures from Mayor Rob Ford’s office is that it is presumably getting easier for Ford to crackdown on leaks, simply because there aren’t that many people left working for him When a leak does emerge, it gives a smaller population of people who it could have come from. And that can make it easier for the press to figure out who’s talking. So from a scandal management perspective, on the Mayor’s and press’s side, it’s a net positive. Read More
More ricin letters appear, and Howard Dean lets loose against “silly right-wing nonsense.”
Mayor at center of crack scandal: “Things are doing great and we’re doing fine,” he said.”