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A female patron who had been ejected from an after-hours dance club fatally injured a woman early Saturday after plowing her car into a crowd outside the North Philadelphia nightspot, police said. The mayhem began about 4 a.m. outside Club Motivation at 2315 N. Eighth St., witnesses said. Shots were fired, cars were smashed, and at least two people were injured, one fatally. Homicide detectives were still sorting out details late Saturday, said Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman. He did not identify the driver whose vehicle jumped a curb and struck several pedestrians. A 20-year-old woman was pronounced dead...

Las Vegas, NV- Some people in the Valley have been getting a loaded call recently regarding the Costco shooting in Summerlin. The messages come in the form of robo-calls, prerecorded messages usually used in campaigns or telemarketing. While these calls seem to focus on the Costco shooting, some wonder if there is a political motive behind them.

Continued from yesterday... Chapter 8. The Principal Duties of the Day Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a very certain way of becoming holy; our sweet Lord Himself gave it to us as His last, supreme effort to gain our love. To practice this devotion we must: a) Read from time to time the 12 wonderful Promises that Our Lord made to everyone who practices devotion to His Sacred Heart. These Promises reveal in the clearest possible way the immense personal and tender love Our Lord has for us. Therefore, we should read them, slowly and carefully, at least on...

Plouffe: Limbaugh, Beck and Palin are a problem for GOP President Barack Obama's political adviser, David Plouffe, on Sunday called Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin the leaders of the Republican party — and also a "problem" for the GOP in this fall's elections and beyond. Plouffe emphasized the "intolerance" and "extremism" of the tea party and right wing of Republican party as both a short-term and long-term electoral problem for the moderate GOP, citing their attacks even on conservative senators such as Tom Coburn of Oklahoma as an example of how narrowly they have tailored their messaging and...

Between the time that George Washington took the first oath of office as president and when Barack Obama did—1789 to 2009, the United States had borrowed nine trillion dollars. Since Obama took office, it has borrowed or imposed nearly three trillion more debt. Tell me he is not deliberately seeking to bankrupt the nation. In an August 28 Wall Street Journal editorial it noted that “To no one’s surprise except Vice President Joe Biden’s, second quarter economic growth was revised down yesterday to 1.6% from the prior estimate of growth of 2.4% which was down from first quarter growth of...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sometimes there's no going back. JetBlue Airways says that there will be no second exits for famed flight attendant Steven Slater - who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand. Spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said Saturday that Slater is no longer employed by the airline. She said the airline won't release further details out of respect for Slater's privacy. Slater's lawyer had said he loved flying and wanted to return to work, and Slater's folk-hero status among tens of thousands of online fans had led...

The controversy over the 'Ground Zero mosque' has portrayed the United States as a land of bigots. Toby Harnden wonders why the US President has helped fuel this myth. It took a Manhattan taxi driver called Ahmed Sharif to speak out for America, which is being vilified as bigoted and Islamophobic because of the controversy generated by opposition to the so-called "Ground Zero mosque". The United States was his dream country, he enthused, and he loved New York City. "I feel like I belong here. This is the city actually [for] all colours, races, religion, everyone. We live here side...

Highest level of Strong Disapproval and the lowest Approval Index daily rating yet recorded for this president.

Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is monitoring the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning and has not ruled out getting involved through diplomatic channels, the Vatican said Sunday. As he has in the past in humanitarian cases, the pope would intervene if asked by authorities in another country and would do so through proper diplomatic channels, not publicly, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

Conservative superstar Sarah Palin opened the door yesterday to joining forces with Mitt Romney for a 2012 White House run - a hot ticket that has some Republicans licking their chops at the prospect of unseating President Obama. “Sounds pretty good,” Palin declared at yesterday’s Tea Party Express rally on the Common when asked about pairing up with the former Bay State governor - giving the idea a big thumbs-up as she left the stage after her headline speech.

A Colorado high school student wants an explanation from school officials after reportedly being told by security guards to remove American flags from his truck because they might make other students uncomfortable. Jeremy Stoppel told Denver's KMGH-TV he received a ticket at Northglenn High School last Thursday for squealing his tires and subsequently had his parking lot pass suspended for two weeks. But he also was told by a campus security guard to remove two U.S. flags -- each 3-by-5 feet -- from the bed of his pickup truck. "She said I should take my flags down. She said this...

We all have heard about how far away from Trade Towers should be declared 'hollowed grounds'. I have a more defining measure of that area. Amongst all the dust from concrete, incinerated walls, paper, furniture and other unidentified debris, were the cremated remains of the innocent victims of this act of war against our nation. It is only fitting that WHERE EVER that dust settled, be acknowledged and claimed as Hollowed Grounds. This is where the remains of those thousands laid, to be swept up and discarded along with dust of concrete and debris. Their remains should be remembered at...

Fright Night was released in 1985, had a few recognizable names as stars, took a decent $25mil (for the time), but only real horror fans recognize it. It wasn’t a great movie, undeserving of the classic status of the other 80’s slasher franchises like Nightmare, Friday, or Halloween. But since those have all been summarily ruined, particularly Nightmare, it’s time that a movie that can be improved upon and changed without offending the delicate sensibilities of too many people get a shot. David Tennant, replacing Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent. Vincent is a washed-up actor hosting Fright Night, a show...

Samsung increased its smartphone sales target for the year, and the company hopes to boost both its smartphone market share and handset profit margin into the double digits, a top executive said. J.K. Shin, the president of Samsung's Mobile communications division, told reporters on the sidelines of the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin that Samsung expects to ship 25 million smartphones this year, up from a previous target of 18 million. That earlier target, announced in February, was itself triple the number of smartphones Samsung shipped in 2009. The recalibration reflects in part Samsung's growing confidence in the smartphone...

A message to all members of First Coast Tea Party September 4, 2010 Marco Rubio's father dies Posted: September 4th, 2010 11:23 PM ET (CNN) - Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio's father has died, his campaign announced Saturday night. The Republican's campaign will be placed "on temporary hold" for a few days, according to a statement. Citing his father's deteriorating health, Rubio on Friday withdrew from a debate with Democrat Kendrick Meek that was scheduled to take place Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press." Read Rubio's statement, after the jump: "My father knew hard work and struggle from very...

Washington D.C., Sep 4, 2010 / 06:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Chris Korzen, Executive Director of Catholics United, told CNA in an e-mail last Friday that his group is getting ready to launch a news organization of its own. CNA had contacted Korzen to confirm whether or not the organization Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) had gone out of business. Korzen refused to answer any questions about the status of CACG, claiming that CNA has not made clear "what your real motivations are" in asking questions about Catholics United and CACG. Nevertheless, in his e-mail, Korzen revealed that...

Can Social Security save Democrats this fall?By Chris Cillizza September 1, 2010; 10:08 AM ET Democrats, faced with a worsening national political climate and daunting historical midterm election trends, are turning to Social Security as an issue where they believe they can score political points and set the stakes of what a Republican-controlled Congress would look like. **SNIP** The strategy behind the Democratic attacks is simple. Older voters are deeply suspicious of any changes to the retirement program -- it's not an accident that Social Security is referred to as the "third rail of American politics" -- and they also...

The most surprising thing about Jimmy Breslin's article in Harper's Magazine is that he is still around. Who knew? Not so surprising is that Breslin hasn't lost any of his barely coherent rage which seems to be his trademark. This latest example from Breslin is so off the wall and all over the place that it is actually hard to get upset over it. Just mark it up to typical Breslin and savor it for the flat out nuttiness of the proposition that people attending last week's Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D.C. are somehow like assassins. Breslin jumps right...

In her journal circa 1928 Rand quoted the statement, "What is good for me is right," a credo attributed to a prominent figure of the day, William Edward Hickman. Her response was enthusiastic. "The best and strongest expression of a real man's psychology I have heard," she exulted. At the time, she was planning a novel that was to be titled The Little Street, the projected hero of which was named Danny Renahan. According to Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra, she deliberately modeled Renahan - intended to be her first sketch of her ideal man - after this same William...

In the District 8 race for Congress, where Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson and Republican Daniel Webster face Tea Party of Florida candidate Peg Dunmire, Democrats outnumber Republicans by just under 11,000, according to the latest data available from the Florida Division of Elections. Yet there are more than 16,000 third-party members.

The Michigan Supreme Court has made the final decision eliminating the fraudulent "Tea Party" Party from the 2010 elections. Four of Michigan's Democrat appointed justices joined its small three Republican appointed contingent to declare the so-called "Tea Party" Party ineligible for the ballot. For months various Democrats and union members have been trying to create a new political party in Michigan misleadingly named the "Tea Party" Party. 23 candidates had been slated from this Democrat dirty trick effort in order to confuse voters into imagining that they are voting for candidates that actually support Tea Party movement ideals. The scandal...

KABUL -- At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation. Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources have told the newspaper that the firms, set up in the past six months, provide cash for a network of district Taliban treasurers to pay battlefield expenses and bonuses for killing the enemy and destroying their vehicles. The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans involved in reconstruction. The money often comes in the form of aid from foreign donors.

Afghanistan's Massive Bank Run Is Getting Worse Vincent Fernando, CFA Sep. 4, 2010, 3:39 PM Reports of potentially corrupt loans from Afghanistan's largest bank to political insiders, undermining confidence in the banks strength, caused a bank run during the week. Depositors withdrew $180 million on Wednesday and Thursday according to the Wall Street Journal, and even Saturday the run continued. WSJ: Afghans continued pulling money from their country's largest bank Saturday, despite assurances from top officials that the lender, which has deep ties to the administration of President Hamid Karzai, was financially secure. Hours after dozens of branches of Kabul...

In Ann Coulter's latest column, she defends Obama against claims that he is a Muslim. She reveals that he is an atheist: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=384 Obama's father was a former Muslim who later became a communist atheist. Obama's mother was also a communist atheist. He did not have a Christian experience in childhood. He remained an atheist while in his mid 20s as a community organizer. He makes it clear in his autobiography that he joined Rev. Wright's church, not because he desired the gospel, but because it would help him in his career as a community organizer. In 2008, when Rev....

You are probably familiar by now with this infamous graph published by the White House in January 2009 highlighting their expectations for the impact of the Recovery Act on the rate of unemployment. Far from leveling off at 8% and then declining, the actual unemployment rate ran up to 10% by the end of 2009 and has declined only slightly since to 9.5%, largely due to a decline in labor force participation. This in spite of the rapid passage of the massive $787 billion stimulus bill in February 2009. (Geoff at the Innocent Bystanders blog deserves everlasting credit for being...

Even in an industry accustomed to bad news, the recent cutbacks at USA Today exposed a harsh reality: For many former readers, newspapers have become so passé that it's become hard even to give them away. Last month, the Gannett-owned publication announced it was laying off about 130 people, shifting its emphasis from its iconic print edition, and devoting more resources online. USA Today has experienced a sharp circulation drop, even among people who get the paper free -- the business travelers who make up more than half of its readership. As road warriors know, copies of USA Today have...

A new report given before the European Society of Cardiology Congress suggests that drinking coffee could help older people who suffer from high blood pressure. According to lead researcher Christina Chrysohoou of the University of Athens in Greece, older people who drink one to two cups of coffee a day elastic blood vessels than those who drink less or more. For the study, Chrysohoou and her team examined 485 Greek men and women between the ages of 65 and 100. They found that 56 percent of the group drank one or two cups of coffee a day and that the...

Kaine to fellow Dems: 'Foolish' to run from party Democratic National Chairman Tim Kaine has a message for Democrats trying to run from Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid: Don't be foolish. "If you run away from who you are and you're a Democrat, it's foolish," Kaine said on "Fox News Sunday." "It's foolish because you've got a lot to be proud of." Kaine cited the "heavy lift" congressional Democrats have taken on this term, passing health care and Wall Street reform as well as a series of jobs packages. Trying to downplay incumbents in swing districts campaigning with...

It's deja vu all over again in Washington as the midterm elections rapidly approach and all signs point to an electoral route of the party in power.  Four years ago, the Beltway was abuzz with news of a GOP bloodletting – the result of an increasingly unpopular President, an unpopular war, a spate of corruption scandals, and the general feeling that it was time for a change in Washington.  The same pundits who correctly forecast defeat in 2006 see the same weather on the horizon in 2010, only this time it's the Democrats who find themselves in the path of...

“Follow the money” was the reporter’s corollary we 1950′s journalism school students often heard. Does Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s passionate defense of Muslims building the Ground Zero Mosque really have more to do with chasing the money instead of defending freedom of religion? Maybe, so a little digging provides a possible answer. One title my search uncovered was “Bloomberg will almost double its Dubai workforce to 90” which appeared in The National in September 2009. The article strongly suggests Bloomberg could be hedging moderate to severe losses in his Europe and U.S. financial reporting markets by moving his sales of news...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A new poll by SurveyUSA/WHAS-Bluegrass shows Dr. Rand Paul with a fifteen point lead over Democrat Jack Conway. (55%-40%)“Kentuckians are fed up with this unsustainable debt and spending; they oppose Cap and Trade and want Obamacare repealed,” said Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign manager. “These issues are driving Dr. Paul to solid leads in all credible polls, but this campaign will continue to operate as if we are ten points behind.”Since the campaign for the general election began, every major poll has consistently shown Dr. Paul with a comfortable lead over his opponent.Rand Paul for U.S. SenateGary...

Labor Day this year comes draped in mourning. More than half of all workers have experienced a spell of unemployment, taken a cut in pay or hours, been forced to go part-time or seen other such problems during and after the Great Recession. Collapsing stock and house prices have destroyed a fifth of the wealth of the average household. Nearly six in ten Americans have canceled or cut back on holidays. Amidst all this, workers increasingly don't even have labor unions as a potential answer to their insecurities—despite the fact that, of all the institutions in America, they more often...

How did President Barack Obama go from a sixty-nine percent approval rating in January of 2009, to being declared “Mr. Unpopular” in Time Magazine last week? Well, in the context of a succinct, roughly 3000 word editorial, Time Magazine’s Michael Scherer successfully ignored a couple of key words that can help explain the President’s downfall - “wolves,” and “coyotes.” And if wolves and coyotes are in the mix, then the problem must be somewhere far outside the beltway, likely among the rural Western states, in a place that is either ignored or regarded with contempt by liberal media and Washington...

If you are, as I am, a perusing cogitator of the Democratic Party's purveying of balderdash, then you most certainly have been left scratching your head in a state of bewilderment as to how a brain, or collective brains, larger than a walnut, could produce such poppycock outside an asylum for the maniacal. It's as if the entire collective Democratic Party and our dear President Obama have gnawed their way out of restraints, moved to Washington, DC, and set up shop. At last, relief appears to be cresting the horizon. All in possession of gumption, intelligence, and old fashioned horse-sense...

If President Barack Obama made time to travel to southern Arizona, he'd realize the urgency of securing America's border, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday. "I'd love for the president to come and visit the border, unfortunately he hasn't seemed to have time to do so," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday." "If anybody hasn't seen what's happening south of our border, they have been oblivious to the terrible, terrible struggle that's down there." "We've got to get our border secured," the senator declared. (snip) The senator slammed the lawsuit as another example of the disconnect between the beltway and...

Once again, we have to rely on the work product of an author from another country's blog to get some sane and logical sense into this egregious travesty facing Lt. Col. Lakin.

OneNation 10.2.10: March on Washington for education, jobs, and unitySep 1, 2010 4:39 PM With less than five weeks to go before the Oct. 2 Washington, D.C. OneNation march and rally for jobs, justice and education for all, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined union leaders, elected officials and community, ethnic and religious groups at a Sept. 1 kick-off news conference on Wall Street at the steps of Federal Hall. The march organizers, which include the national AFL-CIO, the NAACP as well as the AFT and some 170 other sponsoring community, religious, labor and ethnic organizations, are working together to bring...

BUTLER, Pa. – In a campaign office on the first floor of a Sons of Italy lodge, Republican Mike Kelly spoke confidently to a crowd of locals about his race for the U.S. Congress. Outside, a lone Joe Sestak supporter marched up and down with a handmade sign. Generating little attention, he left before Kelly’s rally began. If you want a perfect picture of a potential wave election, Main Street here paints it for you. Forty-odd miles north of Pittsburgh, Butler’s majestic county courthouse is across the street from a well-kept monument to fallen Civil War soldiers. Architecture from a...

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says. Iranian authorities sentenced Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to 99 lashes after the Times newspaper published a picture purportedly of her without a headscarf. The Times later published a correction, saying the photograph was of a different Iranian woman. Continue reading the main story Related stories Iran's dilemma over stoning Iran's grim history of death by stoning After an international outcry, Iranian officials temporarily halted Ms Ashtiani's stoning sentence in July. There are fears the death sentence could still be carried out by...

Tomorrow, many Americans will be enjoying a respite from the incessant demands of their jobs. But many Americans will be wishing desperately they could trade the holiday for the incessant demands of a job. This year, given the state of the economy, Labor Day should be called Not Enough Labor Day. The unemployment rate during the recent recession peaked at 10.1 percent last October, and in August, it was 9.6 percent -- an increase from July. Nearly 15 million people are looking for suitable work and not finding it. Most of the loss of employment is the result of large...

Littwin: the GOP's great governor giveaway By Mike Littwin Denver Post Communist Posted: 09/05/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT It's a month late, but the results of the Republican gubernatorial primary are finally in. And, yes, Dan "Serpico" Maes still wins. Sort of. To secure his sort-of victory, Maes needed more than his 198,000 votes. He had to survive a coup attempt, which consisted mainly of a lot of foot-stamping and e-mail blasting by the state's Republican leadership, which has somehow — for those keeping score — managed to do everything wrong. Again. It seems as if the Republicans didn't want to...

Thirty-eight years ago a film called The Candidate was playing in theaters around the country. It told the story of a young politician named Bill McKay (played by Robert Redford) and his quixotic campaign to win a seat in the United States Senate from California. That, of course, was the year of George McGovern’s run for the presidency against President Richard Nixon. It was also the first year 18-year old Americans could vote. So the movie tapped into the whole young-rock-star-charisma-change-the-world zeitgeist. It was a “Yes, we can” political prologue. In the final scene of the movie, McKay and his...

This marks a new low for the 'Chosen One'

LAGOS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria is building a multi-billion dollar free trade zone with Chinese investors on the edge of its commercial capital Lagos to try to develop a local manufacturing base and help reduce its import dependence. The $5 billion first phase of the Lekki Free Zone, a 3,000 hectare site on the eastern fringe of the city, is 60 percent held by Chinese investors and 40 percent by the Lagos state government, the deputy head of the project told Reuters. ........... The West African head of private equity firm Actis estimated earlier this year that some 10...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to spare the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery. In its first public statement on the case, which has attracted worldwide attention, the Vatican also decried stoning as a particularly "brutal" form of capital punishment. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the Catholic church opposes the death penalty in general. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of adultery. In July, Iranian authorities said they would not carry out the stoning sentence for the time being, but the...

WAYNE ROONEY had a series of romps with a £1,200-a-time hooker when wife Coleen was pregnant, we can reveal today. The England and Man United striker bedded pretty Jenny Thompson, 21, over several MONTHS. Last night she told us: "Wayne chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn't seem to care he was betraying Coleen." The Cheating England ace begged Jenny, 21, and her pretty friend to fulfil his fantasy with a sordid THREESOME. Then he summoned the vice girl back again and again - while trusting wife Coleen was expecting their son Kai.

AIKEN -- The Aiken County Republican Party has approved a formal censure of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The party's executive committee took the action Thursday, joining a handful of other county parties, including Greenville's GOP. Committee member Pete Seaha, who also is the Aiken County Tea Party chairman, wrote the resolution and introduced it at the meeting. The resolution states in part that Graham won't be invited to any party meetings or events. "I don't believe the senator is sticking to conservative Republican principles," said Seaha. "In my mind, the senator has disrespected his constituents. He has said publicly...

Glenn Beck's Restoring America rally was a pleasant surprise. All great leaders have something in common: their belief in a transcendent being called God. This belief in God is the answer to restoring America because we are not fighting a physical battle; we are first and foremost fighting a spiritual one. Without recognizing this we will lose the culture and end up with a society that trades freedom for comfort, with pleasure as the good, choosing leaders that promise that Utopian delusion. In discovering God we discover who Progressives are trying to replace through the use of an ever expanding...

But first; does one actually exist in our country? From all appearances it would not seem that a judge who would rule fairly and constitutionally on the question of eligibility of Barack H. Obama to rule as President and Commander in Chief of our armed services can be found.

Kanye West has apologised to Taylor Swift for ruining her 2009 Video Music Awards (VMAs) acceptance speech. The rapper wrote on Twitter: 'I'm sorry, Taylor. We're both artists, and the media and managers are trying to get between us. 'She deserves the apology more than anyone. She had no idea what hit her. She's just a lil girl with dreams like the rest of us. Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn't want or need that.' West went on to discuss the backlash he had faced following his behaviour at the VMAs. 'There are people who don't dislike...