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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security and suggested he would not fire anyone for the Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner... Obama didn't tell intelligence officials to change what they're doing. Instead, he told them to just do it better, and faster. He left it to them to figure out how. ... While Obama promised improved security, his solutions were laced with bureaucratic reshuffling. ... "There is, of course, no foolproof solution," he said. "We have to stay one step ahead of a nimble adversary."

The Rushford-Peterson High School basketball team won the opening game of its holiday tournament, but it was the ride home that brought the boys together and delivered a trophy to the small school. On a rural road in southeastern Minnesota, after a Dec. 28 victory over Spring Grove, the coaches stopped the team bus about 10 p.m. to help a fan whose car skidded off the icy road and was stuck in the ditch. With that rescue complete, the team resumed the 28-mile trek home when coach Tom Vix suddenly saw a flash of light to his left. Vix, 50,...

In this Oct. 15, 2009 photo, Scott O'Konek, a Minnesota bowhunter displays a 32-point buck he took during a hunt at Camp Ripley, Minn. The buck might have the largest non-typical or asymmetrical rack taken by archery in Minnesota. The buck scored a preliminary antler score of 228. The current record is 225 set in 1989, according to the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association. The deer was an estimated 5 years old and field-dressed at 192 pounds. (AP Photo/Minn. Dept. of Nat. Resources, Beau Liddell)

Meet the Obama whiners. “They did it” is the new administration’s credo when things go wrong. Most often, the culprit for disappointment in Obama’s hope-and-change agenda remains George W. Bush — a sort of modern-day fallen angel Azael, whose wickedness is persistent and omnipresent. Nine months after his departure, the former president insidiously still has his hand in almost everything that seems to plague Barack Obama’s utopian plans. At other times “the Republicans,” “the far Right,” “conservatives,” or even the “mob” have kept America from getting the future it deserves. One would never guess that the Democrats have held the...

US Marshals blasted for escorting Fox broadcasters to World Series By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff US Marshals violated regulations and ethical standards when they escorted Fox Sports broadcasters to and from several major sporting events, including two games of the 2007 World Series in Boston, according to a report issued today by US Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

Cops in North Carolina thought it was odd enough a Jacksonville man was driving an ambulance reported stolen hours earlier. Odder still was that he was wearing a makeshift doctor's uniform consisting of a stethoscope, a pager-like gadget and latex gloves stuffed in his back pocket. But then things started getting really strange when they saw a dead deer, fully stretched out and wedged in the back. Some said there was an intravenous line attached to the animal and there was evidence a defibrillator had been used. ... "I don't know how the man got it up in there," said...

Deer Hunter Bags 27-Point Buck "It's a dandy. I've deer hunted all my life and I've never seen nothing like it. I'd like to have one like it." Note: Click onto the Breitbart TV link below to watch the video news report of this story.

Alien visitors to planet Earth are boycotting genetically modified (GM) crops, claims a leading scientist. Buck Uranus, chief astronomer for the William H Carpenter Foundation in Nevada, believes the extraterrestrials are refusing to create crop circles in GM maize, wheat and other cereals because of fears of possible side-effects. The scientist has conducted a major survey of crop circles created over the past five years and says he has not found a single example left in fields containing GM crops. "In my spare time, I channel messages from alien beings," said Uranus, "and from what I've been hearing, these guys...

When Youngsville's Craig Lewis set out to hunt on an either-sex deer day at Tony's Ranch in Ringgold, he never knew it would literallly be an either-sex day. Lewis set up in his stand at 5:30 a.m. and around 7 a.m. spotted a small deer near his feeder. As he battled through the mist and the rain to spot the deer in his scope, another deer moved into sight. This one was much bigger than its companion. "When I looked up, all I could see was the body," Lewis said. "It was big, like a horse. But its head was...

A Woodbury woman has bagged one of the biggest bucks ever killed in Minnesota with a bow and arrow. Deb Luzinski shot the 24-point buck last Friday at Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park in White Bear Township, in northeastern Ramsey County. Once a mandatory 60-day drying period has passed, her buck could rank among the top three non-symmetrical -- or non-typical -- white-tailed deer ever killed with a bow and arrow, according to the Minnesota Record Book.

Pet Deer Kills Man Grandson Discovers Body, Shoots Deer GILBERTOWN, Ala. -- An elderly man was killed Monday when his pet deer attacked him. The nine-point buck gored and mauled 79-year-old Donald Sellers while Sellers was working on a fence on his property Monday in the Chapel Hill community, according to Choctaw County Sheriff Don Lolley. Sellers had raised the deer since it was a fawn and the sheriff says it often became aggressive during the rutting and mating season. He believes that might have prompted the attack. A grandson discovered the body, then shot and killed the deer when...

BUCK OWENS PASSES AWAY Bakersfield, Ca By: Kyle Brown 1:36 PM Saturday, March 25th, 2006 03-25-2006 KUZZ Radio owner and Country Music Hall of Fame musician Alvis E. "Buck" Owens died early Saturday morning at his Bakersfield, CA home. His family says Buck died in his sleep and the cause of death is not yet known. Buck was born on August 12, 1929 in Sherman, Texas. The son of a sharecropper, Buck traveled with his family to the Phoenix, Arizona area in 1937 as they searched for a better life. Eventually, they traveled to California's San Joaquin Valley, doing farm...

(video) cement deer attacked by horny buck...

Passing Buck on Schiavo Cheats Public By JOYCE PURNICK Published: March 24, 2005 THE House of Representatives acted quickly over the weekend in the wrenching case of Terri Schiavo, so quickly that maybe those who opposed the special bill allowing the federal courts to take over the case might have missed the Senate's role - conspicuous for its silence. The debate was confined to the House, for nearly four hours late Sunday night and early Monday. In the Senate, home of Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California, and, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton and...

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You may have seen Peter Privett's 27-point buck on television. But you probably haven't heard the humble hunter's story.

Listening to speakers at the Democratic National Convention last week, most Americans were left with the impression that our economy is mired in depression. We were told that John Kerry's plan of raising taxes on American families and increasing government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars would spur economic growth. Nothing could be further from the truth. As a result of nearly 30 different tax-relief measures passed by Congress since 2001, unemployment has dropped to 5.6%, 1.5 million jobs have been created in the past year alone, household wealth is near an all-time high and inflation, interest rates and...

Does Bush give a buck about the euro? Judging by the attention he has paid to a recent G7 communique, apparently not, writes William Keegan Tuesday February 10, 2004 During the exchange crisis of the early 1970s - the one that brought the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates - President Nixon was asked about the plight of the Italian lira. In a notorious remark he replied: "I don't give a [expletive deleted] about the lira." We know about this not from the memoirs of the former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill - it was well before...

<p>Some Middle Tennessee legislators have seethed for years over the way their West Tennessee counterparts — sometimes called the ''West Tennessee Mafia'' — have run the state House, Rep. Frank Buck, a possible candidate for House speaker, said yesterday.</p> <p>Rural Weststate lawmakers have held most of the key leadership positions in the House for most of three decades.</p>

Alicia Kelly was lying on the couch in the den of her West Ashley home nursing her 3-month-old daughter when she felt something nudge against her side. She thought it was her 45-pound dog, Serena. Half- asleep, she turned to shoo the dog away, but instead of finding a paw on her side, she found a hoof and a 300- pound buck hovering above her and her baby.