The singer Whitney Houston, who topped pop music charts for years but struggled with drug use and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday in her room at the Beverly Hills Hilton. She was found drowned in a bathtub after possibly taking Xanax by her hairdresser and bodyguards. She was 48. "The biggest devil is me," Houston said in a 2002 ABC News interview. "I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy."
Actor Ben Gazzara, known for films such as Anatomy of a Murder and The Big Lebowski and theater roles including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died of pancreatic cancer Friday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 81. The New Yorker died Friday at Bellevue Hospital Center with family at his side, according to his attorney Jay Julien.
Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants has lost the state's economy up to $10.8 billion, according to a study by University of Alabama economist Samuel Addy. Addy estimated up to 80,000 jobs were vacated by illegal immigrants fleeing the state, costing Alabama $264.5 million in state sales and income taxes and $93.1 million in city and county sales taxes. A law passed in June 2011 requires police to detain people they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally if they cannot produce proper documentation when stopped for any reason.
A 29-year-old Ron Paul supporter carrying a sign outside a polling place in Windemere, Fl., Tuesday was assaulted by supporters of Newt Gingrich after the candidate showed up to campaign there Tuesday. Eddie Dillard said a Gingrich security guard ground his heeled foot into Dillard's bare foot in flip-flops, his camera was knocked out of his hand when he tried to take a photo of the guard and a Gingrich aide yelled, "Just block him! Everyone step on his toes!"
"I now weep for the country for which I risked my life defending its ideals."
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#38 | Posted by crispee_oc
You're either stupid, illiterate, or both:
Nowhere near Atlanta. How can that be if he was court-ordered, as AP claims, to Atlanta? Easy. He was not ordered. But just about every media outlet subscribing to AP has that error in its headline. It’s very sad, but at this moment, there are 42,400 Google entries for that exact misleading headline.
Even though President Obama was not ordered by Judge Malihi to attend Thursday’s hearing, what if he had been? It wouldn’t mean the President has to agree to be there.
The local CBS News station in Atlanta asked both Democrats and Republicans, trying to find somebody to confirm that Judge Malihi could order President Obama to the hearing there, and all said no, there were laws stopping it.
Indeed, the Administrative Rules of Procedure 616-1-2-.22 Hearing Procedure. Amended, states the limited power of Administrative Law Judges, who can only report disobedience or resistance of orders, refusal to produce documents ordered, refusal to testify or “appear after having been subpoenaed,†to a superior court.
Should the superior court agree with the Administrative Law Judge’s recommendation, that the President was in contempt, for example, it wouldn’t matter, because no state court has the power over federal officials to order him into court or to find him in contempt. That could only come from an order issued by a federal district court judge. Then it would be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where precedent is not favorable.
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"I just want to prevent the spread of your stupidity."
Admirable...but a losing battle.
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