Whisker wars over, Fort Hood shooter pleads for his life

KILLEEN, TEXAS--In a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Judge Tara Osborn considered several motions brought before her by attorneys for Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan. Judge Osborn replaces...

Obama advocates for gay rights in Inauguration speech

President Obama came out strongly for gay rights and gay marriage in his second Inauguration speech. He stated, "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love...

AWD DUDE of the Week – Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert

Read More: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/11/awd-dude-of-week-texas-congressman.html AWD is in DC for a few days and just ran into East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. Louie is one of the few remaining conservatives in the wussypants Republican Party. A political...

Fionna Appled arrested for marijuana

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

Zombies in Mobile Alabama

Zombies were spotted in Mobile Alabama, Florida, Miami, Texas, New Jersey, and Maryland. Some of these occurrences were real life events and other events were just people dressed up for fun, because of the third...

Mom Who Glued Daughter's Hands to Wall Faces Life in Prison

 A Texas mother who grew frustrated with her 2-year-old daughter's slow progress in potty training faces life in prison today for gluing the girl's hands to a wall and beating her, leaving her in a coma.Elizabeth Escalona, 23, pleaded guilty in July to injury to a child...

Police assault woman with cellphone

If you film the police in Austin, Texas, or anywhere else for that matter, should you have to be 50 feet away? Also, should everyone be 50, or even 60 feet away, or just those filming the police? Can other bystanders be closer? Also, if the filming is at a crowded event with...

Police engage in illegal seizures of money

Julian Miller, who filmed with his cell phone the shooting of Darius Kennedy by the New York Police Department, had his cell phone taken away by the NYPD and never returned. Miller was also told, again illegally, not to talk to the media. Where is that cell phone and what...

Fionna Appled arrested for marijuana

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

Fiona Apple arrested in drug war

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

Is there a 3 hour time limit on free speech in Texas?

Is there anything in the First Amendment which only guarantees a right to freedom of speech for three hours or less? See, I bring this up because in Austin, Texas, a protest at the state capital was stopped because there was a three hour time limit on free speech. It was a...

Singer Fionna Appled arrested for marijuana an

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

Many living Texans bereaved over 'dead' voter purge

Quite a few Texas voters are seeing dead people in the mirror these days when they go to brush their teeth in the morning.In Houston, high school nurse Terry Collins got a letter informing her that after 34 years of voting she was off the Harris County rolls. Sorry."Friday of...

Texas mom gets go-ahead for historic double-arm transplant

Katy Hayes, the Texas mom who lost all four limbs to an infection soon after she had her third child, has been okayed for a double arm transplant by doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She’ll be the first person in the U.S. to get two full arms transplanted...

CDC: West Nile cases up 32 percent

The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose 25 percent in the latest week, while the number of deaths jumped 32 percent, placing the 2012 outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease on track to be the most severe on record, health officials said Wednesday.So far this year...

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