Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Last night Denver and federal authorities announced that three or four people had been arrested on “firearms and drug charges in connection with a possible plot to kill Senator Barack Obama during his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday night.”
The United States attorney’s office in Denver has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon to discuss its investigation. [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
A federal grand jury indicted Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska today, on “on seven felony counts alleging that he lied to conceal his acceptance of $250,000 in gifts and services from a now-defunct Alaska oil services and construction company.”
Stevens notified senior Republicans that he’d abide by a Senate Republican rule and temporarily step down from [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the tragedy at a Universalist Unitarian church in Knoxville yesterday. The first paragraph from Knoxville News -Sentinel says it all:
Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Apparently columnist Robert Novak’s victim is worse than the news first reported. WJLA reports ”a hospital source told ABC 7 News,” that the victim is in “worse shape than first thought” and the WaPo has confirmed:
The Washington Post confirmed the victim’s identity to be 66-year-old Don Lilkinquist. A source who saw Lilkinquist said he had appeared somewhat incoherent. Lilkinquist also appeared to have casts on [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Conservative columnist and talking head, Robert Novak was cited by Washington, D.C. police this morning “after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette” in downtown D.C. and drove away from the scene in what was seemingly a hit and run.
A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in [...]
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