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Bob Filner (D-Asshole). Was a congresscritter (70 years old) for many many years, and didn't realize that only when he was one of 435 assholes, he could blend in. Now he's Da Mayor (since December), and the spotlight has not been kind. Rude, aggressive, arrogant, already in several scandals and now sexual harassment. Stay classy, Bob
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San Diego mayor is supposed to be a non-partisan office. But Filner is a donk, a former donk congress critter at that with a nasty reputation for throwing temper tantrums.
What gets me about this episode is the guy seems to think he can ride out the storm. We'll see. He's been a monumental jerk for a long time and has gotten away with it so for. And, in spite of the crocodile tears, I do not believe he suffers from any remorse.
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Sociopath: noun Psychiatry.
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
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..you just described the Left. Don't get me wrong, they understand "sense of moral responsibility or social conscience". It's something they impose on everyone else but exempt themselves when its their screw ups or, even worse, diminishes their power.
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two local Democrat state legislators that supported him - called on him to resign today, and his Chief of Staff resigned before 5PM and tweeted about it. Can you say: "Toxic"?
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There are plenty of sociopaths whose who are social, law-abiding, and caring. Just because they lack an ability to feel about the general mass of humanity as the rest of us do -- a lack similar to colour blindness or tone deafness -- does not mean they willingly pursue hurtfulness, criminality, and evil.
[BREITBART] That's what State Rep. Monique Davis (D-IL) asked during a press conference in Springfield: "I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard [and] the Illinois State Police [to]come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron [sic] Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially," she said.
Work with Rahm? They'd be the first...
Other state lawmakers agreed that the violence in parts of Chicago is extreme and may spread to the rest of the city and the state but did not endorse her suggestion. During the Fourth of July weekend alone, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago.
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So Monique wants to call out the Nat Guard to arrest/shoot black people to protect the citizens of Chicago?
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Can do as long as no federal pennies are involved. Posse Comitatus only restricts federal personnel or any link to federal funding. Of course, Illinois is as broke as California. Going to be hard to find the funding.
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and Monique will be the first to call them "jack-booted thugs" if they actually put down the violence
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I have a better idea. Send those troops to the Mexican border so they can help to stem the flow of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into Chicago.
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"So Monique wants to call out the Nat Guard to arrest/shoot black people to protect the citizens of Chicago?"
More likely to protect her own sorry ass,* Steve, but she's a DemoncRat, so - yes. :-(
*Don't know what part of Chicago she lives in, or represents, but it's a safe bet she doesn't think that the clowns killing each other intend to vote for her.
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...but they will vote for her after they're dead. The ward heelers will make sure they're registered.
[REUTERS] The founder of bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra ...a green technological winner picked by the Obama administration that cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars, with the added benefit of the campaign contributors who put money into the project getting paid before the taxpayers when the wreckage went up for sale... will likely avoid criminal charges even if charges are brought against other former executives of the company, according to several people familiar with the investigation.
Of course there won't be criminal charges. Gronet was connected in Washington. Connected people don't get charged; charges are for chumbalones like you and me.
Christian Gronet founded the company in 2005 and was its chief executive until 2010.
Solyndra filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011 after receiving $528 million in federal loans. Its demise triggered a criminal probe into what Solyndra told federal authorities during the loan application process, along with intense criticism from Republican politicians who opposed the Obama Administration's efforts to support the green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of greenbacks that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... sector.
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I thought "Criminals must NOT profit", He did.
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A local, self-proclaimed dedicated Liberal Democrat here in Guam told me even he believes that the Bammer is engaging in corrupt, so-called "crony capitalism" [criminal profiteering]wid many or all of these Govt-Taxpayer subsidized Solar companies whom knowingly promote a defective product + go into bankruptcy widout having to pay any $$$ back.
IHO the Bammer is covertly illegally rewarding his or DemoLefty henchmen wid Govt. monies.
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Judicial Watch, Inc. on April 24, 2012 launched an investigation into the Trayvon Martin case based on reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had sent a secret team of "peacekeepers" to Sanflord, Florida, where Martin was shot on February 26, 2012 after wandering in a gated community after dark. George Zimmerman, a resident of the community and its neighborhood watch captain, is currently on trial for Martin's death though he maintains he acted in self-defense. The amounts are moderate, normal TDY pay for govt officials. But govt officials being involved in civil unrest, actual or threatened, is characteristic of a police state.
Records obtained by Judicial Watch in response to local, state and federal public records requests show that the so-called peacekeepers are part of a large and growing division within DOJ called the Community Relations Service (CRS). Though CRS purports to spot and quell racial tensions nationwide before they arise, the documents obtained by Judicial Watch show the group actively worked to foment unrest, spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on travel and hotel rooms to train protestors throughout Florida. The peacekeepers also met with officials of the Republican National Convention, scheduled for several months later in Tampa, to warn them to expect protests in connection with Martin's death.
In response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial Watch also obtained an audio recording of a "community meeting" held at Second Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which opens with a gospel hymn and organ music, is reported to have led to the official ouster of Sanford's Police Chief Bill Lee. A week earlier, a group calling themselves the "Dream Defenders" had barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding he be fired for failing to file murder charges against Zimmerman. The church meeting produced a nine-point plan, the main demand being the firing of Chief Lee.
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Provocateurs.
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what, no Reichstag to burn?
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[THECABLE.FOREIGNPOLICY] Opposition to President Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic reached a fever pitch this week as religious organizers stage a "Lunes Negro" or Black Monday protest against James "Wally" Brewster.
If confirmed, Brewster will be the first openly gay ambassador to the country, a prospect that is not going over well with some segments of this conservative Christian country of 9 million people. Local reports indicate that church leaders are pressuring the government to reject Brewster's nomination and calling on the faithful to dress in black on Monday in solidarity against him.
Praise Christian Church Pastor Sauford Medrano is quoted in Diario Libre as saying that Brewster could cause "the U.S. promotion of gender beliefs in the country." That supposedly violates a general education law in the country that "all the Dominican education system is based on Christian principles."
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Do you really believe they'd send a Jewish ambassador to Saudi Arabia?
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...Well, we've sent female and gay ambassadors to Muslim nations, and that's worked out sooo well.
This administration is bound and determined that it will shove its beliefs down the throat of the rest of the world, no matter what the end result. That is the bottom line.
Mike
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Let the quotas begin.
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Not to support the choice or anything but I don't think the 'host' country really should have much say in this sort of thing. If the US wants someone as an ambassador to that country that is the US's choice.
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Not to support the choice or anything but I don't think the 'host' country really should have much say in this sort of thing
It's one of the basic principles of diplomacy that countries can and do reject agents sent as representatives since the active revival of the practice in the Renaissance.
[UNIONLEADER] Opponents of making New Hampshire a right-to-work state said incessantly that it would hurt the state economically. This week another manufacturer, this one based in New England, chose to expand in a right-to-work state instead of in New Hampshire. Their license plates used to say "Live Free or Die." Then they were inundated by hippies and lefties and such. They stopped living free. Now they'll die economically.
Connecticut-based Sturm, Ruger & Co., spent months openly seeking a location for a new manufacturing plant to supplement its existing operations in Arizona and Newport, N.H. "We had a number of criteria for expansion, and we did not find anything in New Hampshire that we thought was suitable," Kevin Reed, general counsel and vice president for Sturm, Ruger, said. "Right-to-work state was one of our criteria," he added.
Imagine that. A large, successful, American manufacturer wanting to operate in a state where employees could not be compelled to join a labor union or pay it tribute in the form of "association fees."
In the last legislative session, the House Republican leadership made a strong push for right-to-work. It was defeated by Democrats and pro-labor Republicans, who claimed fatuously that it was really the "right to work for less." Ignoring the fact that wages in Southern and Western states were lower on average than in Rust Belt states before right-to-work laws, opponents suggested that the laws caused lower wages. Wages do tend to be slightly lower in right-to-work states, but after cost of living is taken into account the gap narrows, or even vanishes.
What is unquestionable is that right-to-work states see higher rates of job growth. The Wall Street Journal reported in December that "private employment has grown 4.9% in right-to-work states over the past three years, versus 3.9% in other states, according to an analysis of Labor Department data. This disparity is particularly stark in the factory sector: Manufacturing employment has grown 4.1% in right-to-work states over the past three years, compared with less than 3% in other states."It is unlikely that right-to-work would significantly depress wages in New Hampshire. It is highly likely that it would increase employment. In the meantime, companies like Sturm, Ruger continue to move South.
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And wages don't go up when a particular sector of the economy is flooded with cheap unskilled labor. The action yesterday by the DC council to raise the minimum wage is simply an indicator of that issue. You don't have to raise pay artificially if the supply is not debased by adding vast numbers to the labor pool. However, when your goal is really power, that is never a consideration to the natural order of things.
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Lefties and hippies? You are thinking of Vermont, not NH. Granted a little of the Boston brain cancer has creeper in, but mostly you're looking at Vermin Supreme politics in hill country
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[HOTAIR] The light-bulb related 'energy efficiency' provision of the the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which essentially promotes more expensive compact fluorescent light bulbs, seems destined to never see the light of day. We get these sorts of things because our govt has nothing better to do with its time. That, and they're performing their constitutional duty to make sure we're all clean, non-polluting, and sustainable. Until we're dead. We're recyclable then. Soylent Green is people. This could have been put in "Land of the Free"...
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Skip mercury CFLs and goto LEDs the light's much better and they also last (unlike CFLs).
The move to CFLs is naked rent-seeking by manufacturers to bilk consumers.
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Bought a new ceiling fan / light fixture recently - used to be available with conventional screw-in bulb sockets, as long as they were shipped with CFLs to go in them, but the new ones have the plug-in sockets that only fit (different) CFLs. If they can't regulate the bulbs they'll regulate the sockets.
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Have one of those Glenmore. Replaced a bulb which went out, and had I not made a gold glove catch when the damnable thing didn't stay in I would have had mercury dust all over my toddler's bedroom wood floor.
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mercury dust all over my toddler's bedroom wood floor.
I don't get why the usual suspects are not railing against the presence of mercury in CFLs. I'm all for better ways to make light than boiling electrons, but enviros have been railing against mercury in all forms since the 60s. And rightfully so. But now a broken light bulb turns our living room into a hazmat site. WTF, greenies?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to step down from her cabinet position in order to become president of the University of California system, ABC News has learned.
From one failing institution to another...
"For more than four years I have had the privilege of serving President Obama and his Administration as the Secretary of Homeland Security," Napolitano said in a statement on Friday. "The opportunity to work with the dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, who serve on the frontlines of our nation's efforts to protect our communities and families from harm, has been the highlight of my professional career."
Napolitano, who has been serving in her current post since 2009, was the first woman to helm of the Department of Homeland Security. A Democrat, she previously served as governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009 and before that was the state's attorney general.
Napolitano notified President Obama of her decision to step down a month ago, sources say. She is planning to leave her post in early September.
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Good Riddance.
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And that is the way it is; other peoples' misery turns out to be good news for others. She will fit in well with the other incompetent, dishonest, corrupt politicians in California since Arizona is on to her.
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OK, calm down, Ebbang. You understand, of course, that this is merely a payoff for a loyal Party operative. It doesn't mean the UC is going down the tubes because the UC is already down the tubes. She can't be any loonier than Gov. Moonbeam and the people who have already been running the UC for all these years.
ĀWe have had our share of disagreements during her time as secretary, but I have never doubted her integrity, work ethic or commitment to our nationĀs security. The people of Arizona can be very proud of our former governorĀs service, and I wish her all the best as she assumes leadership of the nationĀs largest public university system,Ā he said.
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Eh, I keep thinking of Hilaire Belloc's poem, Jim - "And always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse."Hilaire
We could do worse than Janet Napolitano - and in this administration, we probably will.
[NYPOST] Tail end of a longer article on another guy who's never been anything but a politician, trying to make a comeback after being caught with his pants down. It's the same kind of arrogance that's characteristic of Anthony Wiener, B.O., and dozens of others, not all of them Demns.
In pursuing Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the head of the insurance giant AIG, he simply declared his target flatly guilty of "fraud" on national TV -- and while Spitzer managed to frighten the AIG board into driving Greenberg into retirement, all criminal charges against Greenberg were eventually dropped. Spitzer has never apologized for what amounted to an act of slander.
Such reckless behavior should have caused red flags to go up all over New York, but instead Spitzer was treated like a hero. Constantine, who later wrote a frightening book about Spitzer's degeneration in the governor's mansion, said admiringly in 2005 that Spitzer didn't "care whether he's found a mountain or a molehill. If he's uncovered five grams of venality and that gives him the hook to change things, fine. He uses that as an opportunity to clean house."
I'd submit this is a terrifying attitude for a government official to take -- using junk cases to compel changes in private industries. It's almost literally a license for arrogant, lawless overreach. Of one of his own wildly questionable gambits, Spitzer self-satisfiedly told Fortune magazine in 2005, "It was a stretch."
But the line on Spitzer was that he was the tribune of the little guy, a modest government official going up against the rich and powerful and unscrupulous, and he needed sharp elbows and a tough demeanor to measure up.
In point of fact, he was behaving like a goon. His supporters liked his goonishness when it came to Wall Street, and assumed it was a strategy that he'd move beyond when he came to hold real political power.
But it wasn't a strategy.
His very late entry into the comptroller's race, with almost no time to get the signatures he needs to get on the ballot, indicates that his impulsivity is still very much at work, as does the amount of time he has been spending on TV rather than being out on the streets getting people to sign on the dotted line.
If he lands on the ballot, the voters of New York City are well within their rights to choose him as the city's comptroller; crazy people have long been well-represented among elected officials. But New Yorkers should at least be under no illusions about what they're getting.
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As head of AIG I figure Greenburg was guilty of something, but since actually convicting the business elite is virtually impossible, Spitzer just did what he could. Plenty of reasons to not like the slimeball, but not sure this is one of them.
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Spitzer wants to be comptroller in part to use the power of the public funds held in the markets to tell the markets what to do. That alone should disqualify him.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... laid the groundwork Thursday morning for going "nuclear" and changing the Senate's rules to end filibusters of executive branch nominees, saying that he's changed his mind since the beginning of this year.
Mr. Reid began the year pledging not to use the so-called "nuclear option" to change the chamber's rules as part of an agreement with his Republican counterpart, Sen. Mitch McConnell. But on Thursday Mr. Reid said Mr. McConnell had broken his end of the agreement, which dissolves the bargain.
"A deal is a deal, a contract is a contract, an arrangement is an arrangement , a bargain is a bargain, as long as each party to such an agreement holds up his end of the bargain," Mr. Reid said in a floor speech Thursday morning.
"I refuse to unilaterally surrender my right to respond to this breach of faith," the Nevada Democrat said.
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"The manager of the Washington Mets ought to be able to field the lineup he wants" (paraphrase)
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Does Reid know that the gig is about up. You wouldn't want to do this because someday the opposition could get power again and play the same game. That's of course in the manner of 'free elections'. In a system in which such rituals are suspended, you don't have to worry about any opposition doing to you what you do to him in the future.
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the Nancy Pelosi of the SenateĀ. A petulant bitch with no morals or ethics
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Proc - I think that Reid (spit!) feels that even if the Opposition gets the Senate again, they would never use it - instead working to 'play along' as they always have - so it doesn't matter.
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So when the rest of the nation forces the Nuclear Waste Depository in Nevada into an operational status Reid will understand that it is just politics going Nuclear?
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As per the anti-US Globalist premise of a "MultiPolar World", where the future OWG-NWO that no one voted for nor has been asked to is led by several par Nuclear "Co-Superpowers/
Leaders" at the #1 spot, the White House = USA has to look PCorrect good for when OWG USoAmerika has to unilaterally deliberately surrender circa 1/2 of the Pacific or more to World Co-#1 Rising China while hoping mainstream Amerikans don't het mad or care, + widout anyone [espec Caliphate-happy Nuclear Jihadis] interpreting it as de facto US "weakness".
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!
* DAILY STAR.LB > US [Obama's]FOREIGN POLICY: LOFTY SPEECHES, FEW FEATS.
Proudly Politically-Legally Deniably surrendering like France since 2013.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WHY DOESN'T THE US PENTAGON TELL US WHO OUR ENEMIES ARE?
Because thats mainly the job of Elected Political Leaders, i.e. POTUS Bammer + GOP-DEM, etal. Capitolcritters.
You know, the "Representative" in
"Representative Democracy" whom in contemporary times believe it means being elected or re-electd to perennially + pervasively hide things from the Amer Voters = Amer People???
[EX-MILWAUKEE BRIGADE MICHELLE "THE US IS A MAFIA STATE" BACHMANN here].
[WASHINGTONTIMES] School officials in Carmel Clay, Ind., said they lost $300,000 last school year because students are rejecting the healthy menu changes brought on by First Lady Michelle Obama's federal lunch regulations. "I've had a lot of complaints, especially with the little guys," Linda Wireman, a food service director for North White School Corp., told JCOnline. "They get a three-quarters cup of vegetables, but if it's something they don't like, it goes down the garbage disposal. So there are a lot of complaints they're going home hungry." When I was a child, by Gum, we ate meat loaf and liked it. If you didn't like meat loaf you went hungry. Except for Fridays, when we got fish sticks. The schools also bought their own meat loaf and fish sticks, without the feds dictating what they should buy and recirculating tax dollars with a 40 percent rakeoff to support the Department of Education. And we had prayer in the schools. I'd have never passed seventh grade math without school prayer.
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Cancelled subscriptions Bobby. I have a lunch box ready for my daughter.
Lower calorie intake to reduce energy.
Lower salt so sweating is not effective during exercise.
Exercise such as running is not allowed.
Conforming corriculum contrary to belief system.
Unwanted sexual education.
If this was Guantanamo, there would be outrage.
Some Kansas kids
When I was a young wrestler, I could eat 2 double whoppers with cheese and be hungry by 4.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BREITBART] That's what State Rep. Monique Davis (D-IL) asked during a press conference in Springfield: "I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard [and] the Illinois State Police [to]come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron [sic] Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially," she said.
[REUTERS] The founder of bankrupt solar panel maker 
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Judicial Watch, Inc. on April 24, 2012 launched an investigation into the Trayvon Martin case based on reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had sent a secret team of "peacekeepers" to Sanflord, Florida, where Martin was shot on February 26, 2012 after wandering in a gated community after dark. George Zimmerman, a resident of the community and its neighborhood watch captain, is currently on trial for Martin's death though he maintains he acted in self-defense.
[THECABLE.FOREIGNPOLICY] Opposition to President Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic reached a fever pitch this week as religious organizers stage a "Lunes Negro" or Black Monday protest against James "Wally" Brewster.
[HOTAIR] The light-bulb related 'energy efficiency' provision of the the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which essentially promotes more expensive compact fluorescent light bulbs, seems destined to never see the light of day.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to step down from her cabinet position in order to become president of the University of California system, ABC News has learned.
Government source says U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano set to resign today (Friday).
Harry Reid
