Eric Holder

Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

NBC NEWS — Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

Read more at NBC News.

 

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[WATCH] Gregory Brothers’ awesome music video for YouTube’s Comedy Week

No amount of seduction will convince this DJ to play your favorite song.

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McDonald’s gives Charles Ramsey free food for a year

CNN — Charles Ramsey, who helped rescue the three Cleveland women held captive by Ariel Castro, will get free McDonald’s from his local fast food favorite for the next year, a McDonald’s spokeswoman said.

Read more at CNN.

IRS Internal Revenue Service

Furlough Friday: 4 agencies closed for business

POLITICO — If four federal agencies closed their doors, would anyone notice?

Read more at Politico.

Rand Paul

Rand Paul on ‘Hannity’: “Old MacDonald’s Farm of Scandals”

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul delved into the world of classic children’s nursery rhymes Thursday as he sang a revamped version of “Old MacDonald” on Fox News’ “Hannity” Thursday night.

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Bowling Shoe Law Being Debated in State Legislature

WRGZ — With all the corruption in Albany, one of your representatives is instead focusing efforts on something many of you like to do, bowl.

Read more at WRGZ.

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House passes GOP student loan bill, sets up Obama showdown

THE HILL — The House on Thursday passed a Republican bill that would permanently peg federal student loan interest rates to government interest rates, defying a veto threat from President Obama.

Read more at The Hill.

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Boy Scouts End Longtime Ban on Openly Gay Youths

THE NEW YORK TIMES - GRAPEVINE, Tex. — The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a step its chief executive called “compassionate, caring and kind.”

Lois Lerner IRS scandal

IRS official on leave refused to resign, GOP senator says

FOX NEWS - First she refused to testify. Now Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the tax agency scandal, is refusing to resign, according to a top Republican senator.

Read more at FOX News.

Millenials

Millennials actually better than their parents with saving money for the future

Millennials get their fair share of criticism from Gen-Xers and baby boomers – that they are rude, immature, not ready for jobs or the real world – yet they are actually better than their elders at things like saving money.

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CC POTUS: Satirical New Yorker article pokes fun at lack of communication in White House

The magazine The New Yorker decided to have some fun at the president’s expense Wednesday, publishing a satirical article in which the president requests that everyone copy him on their email correspondences in the event another scandal breaks under his watch.

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Helping Obamacare succeed is not an Americans’ civic duty

According to liberals, it was “un-American” to protest the adoption of Obamacare. Now apparently it’s unpatriotic to not go out of one’s way to help make it a wild success.

LGBT

Oregon considering bill that will question college students’ sexual orientation

If you’re planning on attending a public university or community college in Oregon in the near future, be warned that you may be asked about your sexual orientation by the school.

Jo Bonner

Rep. Jo Bonner to resign for Univ. of Alabama job

WASHINGTON POST — Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) is set to resign from Congress in order to take a job at the University of Alabama system, three people with knowledge of his plans confirm.

Read more at The Washington Post.

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L.A. gov’t. to distribute free condoms via bus to city residents

The wheels on the bus go round and round all throughout Los Angeles…passing out free condoms.

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Americans (and their money) moving from north to south, according to new ALEC report

Americans are moving in droves from the Rust Belt to the Farm Belt, resulting in a major economic shift in the United States, according to researchers at the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Joe Francis

‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder Joe Francis apologizes for calling jurors “mentally f-in retarded”

‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder Joe Francis is sorry for calling the jurors who convicted him “mentally f-ing retarded” in a press interview — well, sort of.

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Code Pink heckler interrupts Obama’s national security speech

President Obama’s first major speech on counterterrorism since winning re-election in November didn’t go quite as planned – thanks to a heckler from the women-initiated social justice group Code Pink.

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Obama: I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to kill any U.S. citizen with a drone without due process

After two and a half months of waiting, President Barack Obama finally told the American people that he supports the military’s use of drone strikes against Americans, noting that they help keep Americans safe from terrorists.

Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart mocks Senators’ praise of Apple products during CEO’s tax evasion hearing

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart mocked members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for their lenient approach to Apple CEO Timothy Cook’s testimony in a tax evasion investigation, showing clips of various Senators professing their love of Apple products, including iPhones and Macbooks.