AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to “kiss my butt” and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen.
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Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute
-By Warner Todd Huston Earlier today it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’ James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not as just a reporter getting “classified” information, but an “aider and abettor and/or
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Even New Yorker Sides With Fox on DOJ Attack on James Rosen
Federal officials charged the Arkansas state treasurer Monday with extorting thousands of dollars from a financial broker interested in obtaining more of the state’s bond business.
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Arkansas Official Accused of Extortion
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda placed a bounty on her husband's head, Mary Feierstein learned of it from a friend who called and said, “You must be a mess!” U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein was thousands of miles (km) away at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, without his wife and family on what is called an “unaccompanied” posting. He is one of more than a thousand U.S. diplomats on such tours of duty in danger spots around the world, part of a trend that is changing the definition of being a diplomat. …
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Danger and separation from families changing job of U.S. diplomats
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Politics has long been a family business in Illinois, a place where who you know — and who you're related to — matters more than most. But the family drama shaping up around the next governor's race adds a new layer of intrigue in a Capitol already grappling with huge financial problems.
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Family drama adds intrigue to Ill. governor’s race
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in Congress demanded on Thursday that the Obama administration release emails about its handling of last year's deadly attack in Libya, after a dramatic congressional hearing breathed life into the party's accusations of negligence and cover-up. U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner called on the White House to order the State Department to make public more internal emails sent after the killings in Benghazi of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. …
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Republicans look for cover-up as Benghazi debate revived
By Caroline Humer (Reuters) – Kentucky Democratic Governor Steve Beshear said on Thursday he will expand Medicaid coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, a move that will cut the state's uninsured population almost in half. The expansion will extend coverage to adults earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, providing public health assistance to more than 300,000 people. That would nearly halve the number of people in the state – 640,000 – who lack health insurance, Beshear said in a statement. …
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Kentucky governor announces Medicaid expansion under Obamacare
This should drive Joe Biden nuts: instead of restricting the gun rights of North Carolina citizens, the NC House voted to extend them (WRAL) State House lawmakers voted late Monday night to allow concealed weapons on college campuses, state property, greenways, bike trails, at sporting events and in businesses that serve alcohol. Proponents of House Bill 937
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NC House Votes To Return Many Gun Rights
-By Warner Todd Huston Illinois State Representative Sara Feigenholtz thinks her job is to “give rights” to people. Feigenholtz recently blurted that out in an interview giving us a perfect example of the key difference between those interested in preserving the American system, its morals, and traditions, and those that have no interest in such niceties
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Useful Idiot: Illinois Democrat Says Govt’s Job is to ‘Give Rights’
Former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski says “extreme environmentalists” are to blame for stifling development in the state. Murkowski suggested the Obama administration isn’t pursuing development …
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Murkowski say environmentalists stifle development
