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Former Senate Majority Leader — and 1996 GOP Presidential nominee – Bob Dole just tore into Newt Gingrich with an open letter that violates Reagan’s 11th Commandment so many times, Bob Dole will be in the confessional until Easter. ... .. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway. ... Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall. He loved picking a fight with Bill Clinton because he knew...

Supersize that vindication! The same Manhattan grand jury that cleared a McDonald's burger-flipper of all charges in a dramatic, caught-on-video beating has voted felony charges against the two irate women who he beat, prosecutors announced this morning. Sweethearts Denise Darbeau and Rachel Edwards had rushed behind the counter of the West Village fast food joint during a raucus pre-dawn argument with the staff. That unwise move earned them a severe pummeling with a grill-cleaning tool by Big Mac wrangler and manslaughter parolee Rayon McIntosh -- and now there's a side of felony charges to go with that beating. Prosecutors did...

A would-be robber in a Spider-Man mask received a beating from store clerks early this morning when he tried to stick-up a local convenience store with a sword, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said. Dale Foughty, 56, of Wilmington Highway, has been charged by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office with attempted armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and injury to personal property. His bond was set at $100,000. Foughty, allegedly wearing a Spider-Man mask, stuck a Samurai sword a female clerk’s face and said “give me your money and I will not hurt you,” Onslow County...

WEST ALLIS, Wis.—West Allis police say the ongoing investigations into 11 violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair suggest race did play a role. The 11 incidents included nine assaults, a robbery and an attempted robbery. All the victims were white or Hispanic and the offenders were described as African-American. On opening night of the fair last week, 31 people were arrested and at least 11 people were hurt. The West Allis Police Department is handling some of those cases. The department said Tuesday that its officers arrested seven people in different incidents around the fairgrounds...

WEST ALLIS - Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY'S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene. Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair. Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night. "It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people," said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near...

<p>A shocking video has been released allegedly showing police officers tasering and beating a homeless man to death who they claim was resisting arrest. Though the video is not clear, eye witnesses say the homeless man - Kelly Thomas, 37 - was unable to put up any resistance and was lying on the ground on his front when the attack took place on July 5. His screams and cries for his father can be heard amid the tasering noises.</p>

Police are trying to identify a gang of men who are beating couples with baseball bats and robbing them in downtown Denver. Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said there have been two attacks, each involving the robbery of a couple leaving restaurants or bars at closing time. Just before 2 a.m. on July 16, a couple was walking home from a restaurant-bar near East 10th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street when they were surrounded by a group of men, according to a police report. wo men wielding baseball bats hit the man and woman in the head, "causing major bruising and...

An Baltimore LGBT group called Equality Maryland confirmed the victim of the Baltimore McDonalds’ beating is a transgender woman. Lisa Polyak, vice president of the board of directors for Equality Maryland commented on the video. “It does appear that the victim was a transgender woman, and she was brutalized while people stood by and watched,” “There’s no excuse for that violence under any circumstances, but we would encourage police to investigate as a hate crime.” Equality Maryland called on state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler to investigate the case as a hate crime.

set things straight, the kid you see being forced to leave, is actually the hooded man's son. The father had told the owner of the cafe to ban his son from coming into the place because his son is spending way too much time there. Well when the father found hi son there again, he decided to teach the owner of the business a lesson. The gun that dropped out of the Internet cafe owners holster, was just an air pistol, but he does shoot it at the owner. This really is one messed up situation. Does anyone think...

This is a video of a father who goes after an internet cafe owner who did not listen to him when he told the guy to ban his son from his business. The father was complaining that his son was spending too much time there on the internet. The man's son is pushed out of the store in the beginning of the video. Then the security camera videos the father coming back in and really kicking the owners butt. The father does a real number on the guy. Somewhere in the altercation the owner drops a gun that the father...

Gretchen Carlson, just back from vacation, refused to give White House spokesman Robert Gibbs any cover in Gibbs' attempt to evade and avoid direct questions regarding 0bama's attempt to take political - not security - credit for the current "highly stable" situation in Iraq.

There’s been a majority in favor of it since 1998 but the split at the time was 52/39. Now it’s 69/27, with Republicans and indies both above 60 percent. A fitting exclamation point to a week that saw conservatives hold the gay-friendliest CPAC evah. Support for allowing gays in the military is much higher among Democrats than Republicans, but the policy wins support from a majority of Republicans as well. More than eight in ten Democrats say that gays should be allowed to serve; 62 of Republicans and 63 percent of Independents agree with that view. The poll’s release follows...

THE ALTERCATION began when Officer Tamika Gross challenged Latifa Savage to a brawl in front of a vacant store next to Savage's Mill Creek home on Saturday, according to neighbors. " 'You got a lot of mouth 'cause you holdin' that baby,' " Gross said, according to witnesses. [snip] Still, witnesses said the tiny woman got the best of the cop in the fight. When backup officers arrived and restrained Savage, Gross kicked her, slammed her head in the sidewalk and screamed threats, forcing her colleagues to repeatedly pull her away, witnesses said.[snip]Savage was face down on the ground. As...

I thought it would be instructive to compare and contrast the suicide pacts of two different strange self-destructive cults.Pact organization #17th order of the Gender Neutral Association of Descendants of AtlantisDeity Symbol : BroomstickNumber of participants : 6Reason for suicide: Rosie O’Donnell show was not renewedDescription of Suicide: 6 members have packed themselves into a Toyota Prius and are speeding down a dirt road toward a cliff at the Royal Gorge. They are determined to get dead. Not just dead I mean really dead. They are 20 seconds from the edge. This is the git-er-done checklist1. Drink poison Kool-Aid(check)2. Put...

ISLAMABAD - Police resorted to light baton charge to disperse a rally of leaders of bar associations and civil society activists converging here from across the country to demand restoration of deposed judges including chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, who led the rally outside the Parliament House, rejected government’s move to invite judges to take fresh oath after reappointment though with previous seniority. He said the government action is illegal and can be challenged by new judges who claim to be senior to the reappointed judges under the constitution. He...

On the day that fliers announced a registered sex offender had moved into a Puyallup neighborhood, a woman welcomed him with an aluminum baseball bat. Baldwin (Pierce County Sheriff's Office picture)The 7-foot-3 man was beaten so badly, medics transported him to a hospital. "I kept swingin' and swingin' and swingin," court documents say Tammy Gibson told police, who arrested her in Cottonwood Mobile Home Park. Gibson has been charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment

Five good Samaritans disrupted the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Oregon woman, chasing down and tackling the suspect until authorities arrived, police said.

It's almost that time of year again, and football is in the air.

Editor's Note: Published on Page A3 of the November 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer GREENPEACE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL activist group, is considering filing charges against the security guards who beat up a German volunteer during a protest against "dirty energy" in the state-run Masinloc coal-fired power plant in Zambales. The violent encounter between the National Power Corp. guards and 16 Greenpeace activists on Thursday was "the most severe attack" against its campaigners in the Philippines, said Red Constantino, Greenpeace's Southeast Asia energy campaigner. "The security personnel put the safety of the activists at extreme risk," Constantino said in...

Mom: Girls pounded on me at Chuck E.’s By Jennifer Rosinski Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - Updated: 10:22 AM EST A band of female hooligans roughed up and cursed out a Clinton mother at the Leominster Chuck E. Cheese after she asked to take one picture with her family in the photo booth they had hogged for almost an hour. ``It was like a brawl you'd see at an English soccer game the way they kept hitting her,'' said a disgusted Nelson Lee, the Leominster father of two boys who broke up the assault. ``She was down in the fetal...

Controversial N.C. sheriff under state criminal investigation TIM WHITMIRE Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Davidson County Sheriff Gerald Hege, known nationally for his pink jail cells and paramilitary stylings, is under a state criminal investigation, District Attorney Garry Frank said Wednesday. In a written statement, Frank said he asked the State Bureau of Investigation in April to look into allegations involving the activities and conduct of the controversial sheriff. The Winston-Salem Journal reported in Wednesday editions that SBI agents interviewed Hege and some of his top deputies Tuesday. Hege told the paper that agents, "talked with numerous people. ... This...

Sex assault suspect beaten in jail 07/18/2002 Associated Press Hampton Police Dept. photo Linwood Rainey was beaten by inmates in the Hampton jail, police say. (Hampton-AP) -- Six inmates at the Hampton jail are charged with maiming after an inmate charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl was stomped and beaten. Police say inmates in the same cellblock attacked 42-year-old Linwood Rainey in a common area after one of them asked him if he was the man in the news for a sexual assault. Rainey was charged with forcible sodomy on Friday. Rainey was beaten on his face, head and...