Group of Thugs Target Kansas City Woman — They Had No Idea She Had Been Frequenting the Gun Range

theblaze.com 5 hours ago

A group of thugs figured it would be easy to overpower one Kansas City woman. After all, her husband had just left to run an errand, leaving her all alone in the home...

 
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Florida Teen Rejects Plea Deal On Felony Charges For Same-Sex Relationship

thinkprogress.org 7 hours ago

Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, who has been charged with a felony for having a sexual relationship with her younger girlfriend, has rejected a plea deal that would have included two years of house arrest...

 
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Oxford Town, Red Hook, and Every Other Place Bob Dylan’s Ever Sung About, Mapped

slate.com 14 hours ago

Bob Dylan’s music, it’s often said, happens in a world of its own—where the highway is for gamblers and you’re always 1,000 miles from home...

 
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Obama asks Holder to investigate Holder’s investigation

dailycaller.com 9 hours ago

President Barack Obama has asked his friend Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Holder’s unprecedented investigation of a Fox News reporter. Holder approved the Justice Department’s ext

 
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Fortune 500 Company Wins Fight To Turn Women’s Safe House Into A Luxury Hotel

thinkprogress.org 10 hours ago

The 104-year-old Anna Louise Inn in Cincinnati, Ohio, has long provided a refuge for women struggling to overcome drug addictions or prostitution, escape abusive husbands, or simply get back on their...

 
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Obama Doesn’t Return Marine’s Salute, Shakes Hand Instead — Is This a Protocol Misstep?

theblaze.com 11 hours ago

CBS News' White House correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted this morning that President Barack Obama did not return a salute to a Marine before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn: Indeed, the...

 
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How California Is Debunking The GOP’s Obamacare Talking Points

thinkprogress.org 11 hours ago

On Thursday, California officials revealed insurance companies’ opening bids for the state’s Obamacare marketplace in 2014...

 
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Congressman: Women Should Be Forced To Give Birth To Fetuses With No Brain Function

thinkprogress.org 13 hours ago

At a congressional committee hearing to discuss a proposed measure to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a Texas lawmaker told a woman who made the difficult choice to terminate a...

 
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Rubio has long history of blocking immigration enforcement

dailycaller.com 5 hours ago

Sen. Marco Rubio blocked numerous immigration-enforcement bills when he served as speaker in the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009. “Rubio blocked any efforts to deal with the pr

 
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IRS witch hunt targeted Ohio educator and bystander

dailycaller.com 3 hours ago

At the height of its campaign against President Barack Obama's opponents, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in its audit of an Ohio tea party group, demanded information and materials related to a

 
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How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend

redtape.nbcnews.com 4 hours ago

Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture...

 
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Oklahoma Muslims Aid In Tornado Relief

huffingtonpost.com 51 mins ago

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Oklahoma is probably one of the tougher places to be a Muslim in America, but Muslims have stepped in to help with the cleanup of a massive tornado that...

 
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There’s a Major Twist in the Story About a High School Student’s Lesbian Relationship With a Minor...

theblaze.com 7 hours ago

As Kaitlyn Hunt's legal battle looms, her family continues to passionately defend her...

 
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What’s 2013′s “Gone Girl”? Here are this summer’s best reads

salon.com 3 hours ago

Why settle for the latest Dan Brown, when you can while away the dog days with these stylish page-turners?

 
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Illinois Bans Abstinence-Only Sex Ed In Public Schools

thinkprogress.org 12 hours ago

Illinois public schools will be required to include medically accurate information about birth control in their sex ed classes under a measure that the state legislature passed this week...

 
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30 Things You Didn't Know About Return of The Jedi

wired.com 6 hours ago

Tomorrow sees the 30th anniversary of the release of Return of The Jedi. To celebrate, here are 30 things you might not have known about the movie.

 
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Elizabeth Warren Attacks House GOP on Student Loan Bill

motherjones.com 11 hours ago

The senator says the Republican bill would turn students into "profit centers."

 
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LOOK: Woman Claims to Have Photographed UFO in California

theblaze.com 2 hours ago

Ellen Henry noticed something strange about a photo she took of a historical building in Santee, Calif., on May 7 -- an alleged UFO streaking across the sky...

 
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Portuguese for the perplexed

economist.com 12 hours ago

Inspired by a popular guide to Understanding the British, I've put together a few entries in a Foreigners' Guide to Understanding Brazilians. Portuguese...

 
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Stick Save To Close The Week

zerohedge.com 2 hours ago

  #0000ff ;"> #0000ff ;">Bloomberg #000000 ;">notes. We covered two Japan ETFs this week, #0000ff ;"> #0000ff ;">EWJ and #0000ff ;"> #0000ff ;">DXJ .... Notably, DXJ was the best performing ETF in 2013 until this week. DXJ is interesting as it has a short-hedged position on the yen which benefits U.S. holders. EWJ is also popular but with the yen in sharp decline, it really hasn't benefitted U.S. holders as much. #000000 ;">Volume trailed off and bulls were free to ram

 
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Widow of Butchered British Soldier Gives Heartbreaking Tearful Interview: ‘I Love Lee and Always...

theblaze.com 1 hour ago

LONDON (TheBlaze/AP) -- London is still reeling from the horrific terror attack that took place earlier this week...

 
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Scandals Have ‘Snowballed’ Through the Obama Years and More May Be Coming, Rep. Blackburn Says

theblaze.com 3 hours ago

After a month in Washington where media focus was dominated by the Benghazi attack investigation, the revelation that the Department of Justice has been seizing the phone records of journalists and...

 
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Scorecard: How's Bill Ackman Doing?

cnbc.com 1 hour ago

With the exit of P&G's CEO, Bill Ackman collected another big-game trophy. How's his fund doing? Let's check the score.

 
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This Could Be the Most Haunting Statistic You’ll Ever See

theblaze.com 6 hours ago

Tragically, our brave U.S. soldiers aren't just dying on the battlefield...

 
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Poll: More Favor Tea Party After IRS Scandal

newsmax.com 8 hours ago

Favorable views of the tea party are on the rise in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, in which the agency targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit tax exempt service,...

 
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One Experience That Really Shaped My Thinking

zerohedge.com 3 hours ago

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog , Years ago as a young intelligence officer, I served a stint in Saudi Arabia running a team of counter-terrorism analysts and agents...

 
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Quotes of the day

hotair.com 3 hours ago

Change.

 
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Lion Named ‘Bonedigger’ and Small Dog Make Most Unlikely Companions

theblaze.com 4 hours ago

A 5-year-old male lion at an Oklahoma zoo with the name Bonedigger might sound intimidating, but looks and name can be deceiving...

 
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The World's Greatest Boyfriend Died At Age 18 — Then The Internet Made Him Immortal

upworthy.com 24 hours ago

Getting diagnosed with a fatal disease can really change a person. In Zach's case, it made him a superhero.

 
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DNC: GOP 'Making Up' Scandals 'Out of Thin Air'

breitbart.com 5 hours ago

April Fool's Day was more than a month ago, but that didn't stop DNC spokesman Brad Dayspring from emailing supporters Friday that the GOP was "making up so-called 'scandals' out of thin air." This...

 
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Jake Tapper's #MemorialMessage hashtag a poignant start to holiday weekend

twitchy.com 2 hours ago

Sarah Palin recently noted that there's "something different" about CNN's Jake Tapper. Tapper, author of "The Outpost," continued to distinguish himself from the media mainstream by kicking off the...

 
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