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In a breathtaking example of hypocrisy, Jim Cooper testified today - presumably with a straight face - that deficit spending of the sort that has lead to $55 trillion dollars in unfunded mandates threatening to cripple the US Economy is a "fiscal cancer." While he does say that the Health Care bill passed in the House on Saturday won't help address the problem, he neglects to mention he voted for it. Instead he recommends another Congressional panel to make recommendations.

...gossip mills are beginning to gush and grind about increasingly muscular CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and his muscle Mary man-friend Antoine "Ben" Maisani snatching up a very butch firehouse on West Third Street in New York City's Greenwich Village. These roiling real estate rumors of Misters Cooper and Maisani–who recently vacationed together in India –purchasing Fire Patrol House #2 seems to have first found legs a few days ago on the New York City-centric gossip site Gawker. Listing information for the four and some story firehouse shows it was listed at $4,750,000, measures a considerable 8,420 square feet, and...

On Monday’s AC360, CNN’s Anderson Cooper forwarded the media’s new talking point about the New York 23 congressional race, that “Tea Party protesters and other conservative voices are...driving moderates out of the GOP.” Correspondent Tom Foreman continued on this note, stating that “angry conservatives...[are] forcing the party to choose between...its base and attracting more moderate Americans.” Cooper led the 10 pm Eastern hour of his program with the question, “Does the Republican Party have room for moderates?” The anchor outlined that “state and local elections tomorrow may have profound national effects, and President Obama and Sarah Palin are a big...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zayow4PaQr4 This is an account of over 5 years of research and collection of evidence that many of North Carolina's elected county officials have assumed office illegally, and are acting in a CRIMINAL capacity, according to statute, but the Attorney General, having acknowledged the problem, refuses to do anything about it. See for your self. Absent assumption of liability, absent assurance of value, absent offer of recourse. The viewer must decide. FOR A PDF VERSION: www.amossigngraphics.com/movie/abovelaw.pdf

Schools Are Where Stimulus Saved Jobs, New Data Show By MICHAEL COOPER October 30, 2009 The best symbol of the $787 billion federal stimulus program turns out not to be of a construction worker in a hard hat, but rather of a classroom teacher saved from a layoff. On Friday, the Obama administration released the most detailed information yet on the jobs created by the stimulus. Preliminary data showed that of the 640,239 jobs created or saved, 325,000, or more than half, were jobs in education that school districts claimed were saved when stimulus money averted the need for layoffs....

A former government official facing corruption charges for accepting improper gifts from Jack Abramoff is taking an unusually aggressive approach in fighting the Justice Department’s case. Horace Cooper, a legal commentator and conservative writer who was a senior aide in then-Rep. Dick Armey’s (R-Texas) office, is accusing prosecutors of dozens of mistakes and has invoked the prosecutorial abuse investigation that overturned the conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) in an attempt to undermine the government’s case. Cooper, an attorney himself, pleaded not guilty last week to felony corruption charges, including accepting nearly $15,000 in gifts, tickets to sporting events...

Here is video of Anderson Cooper speaking with a panel about mistakes that law enforcement made in the Dugard case. Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped when she was 11, and had been missing for 18 years. (Watch Video)

Reporter Matt Cooper, formerly of Time magazine and currently of lefty site Talking Points Memo, finds the perfect comparison for the death of Ted Kennedy: It feels a bit like 9/11 on Martha's Vineyard. End-of-summer weather is achingly beautiful but the mood is melancholy because of Teddy. Yes, the death of an ethically-desolate 77-year-old is just like a terrorist attack that killed thousands and plunged the U.S. into years of war. If you heard a loud thump, that was my jaw dropping. About 110 stories. UPDATE: A screen grab in case the Twitter quote magically disappears:

A controversial suit brought by a U.S. Army reservist has been joined by a retired Army two-star general and an active reserve Air Force lieutenant colonel. Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook filed the suit July 8 in federal court here asking for conscientious objector status and a preliminary injunction based upon his belief that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. But before the issue got to court, Cook’s orders to deploy to Afghanistan were revoked. Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs...

CNN's, Anderson Cooper interviewing Sarah Palin's spokeswoman and she descirbes a point guard passing the ball and the smug Anderson Cooper says he doesn't know anything about basketball, then says he's clueless about sports in general. Weren't these the same idiots that bashed Palin for not knowing anything?

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a five-minute long interview of Diane Elder, a woman who decided to let her infant daughter live despite her severe genetic defects, during his program on Tuesday evening. The interview came about after Elder wrote Cooper after watching a similar interview he conducted the previous night of Lynda Waddington, a “pro-choice” blogger for the Huffington Post and RH Reality Check, who decided to have a late-term abortion herself (the anchor did not mention Waddington’s left-wing affiliations during the interview). (audio clips from the interview available here) On Wednesday afternoon, the network’s “Situation Room” program played...

CNN's strategy of playing to the middle to distinguish itself from Fox and MSNBC appears to have fallen flat. From the Politico On day one, CNN ruled cable news. But while viewers may flock to the network for election day or the Inauguration, day 130 is a different story. CNN, which just took home a Peabody Award for its 2008 election coverage, and dominated cable-news ratings on days when politics took center stage, is having trouble getting those viewers back on other nights.

Calling it a "stupid, silly, one-line aside," he touched on the attention it received. "I think it's an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests," said Cooper. "I don't think it's my job to disparage, or encourage, which oddly other networks seemed to be doing. Protest is the great right of all Americans, and it's not my job in any way to make fun of people or disparage what they're doing." Cooper said he regretted making the comment. "If people took offense to that and felt that I was disparaging their legitimate right...

Sure, there were more clever signs at Tax Day tea parties around the country. Some were clutched by indebted children. Others made "pox on both (political party) houses" statements. And there were the required bailout bashes. But no sign I spotted at any Lipton-lobbing rant fest summed up the nationwide sentiment like the one I saw on Fox News' "Hannity" program Wednesday night from Atlanta. The poster scribe could have condemned any other media formerly known as mainstream. He (or a brash she) could have written "MSNBC Sucks," but what's so bold about stating the obvious? He could have scratched...

WND contacted CNN, Anderson Cooper and his guest analyst, David Gergen, to ask for comment on the controversy but received no response.

HAGERSTOWN — Staring at the wrong end of an 8-inch blade, Leonard W. Cooper fought off an intruder Wednesday by picking him up and throwing him through a glass door. Cooper, who has worked at Just Us Hair Styles, a barbershop at 206 N. Jonathan St., for 22 years, said he was reading the Bible when a man walked in demanding money at about 11:30 a.m. The man, who was wearing a hood, raised a knife and pointed it toward Leonard, 69, who was alone in the shop at the time. “I had the Bible in my hands (when the...

I guess if anyone knows that it's hard to talk when you have another man's scrotum in your mouth, it would be Anderson Cooper.Although I wouldn't put it past him to teabag himself.

Christie slams the panel as they cry racism. CHRISTIE: As a proud black man, I don't look at a chimpanzee as an African- American. I don't look at it as a reflection of who I am and who African-Americans are in this country. And frankly, if it's supposed to be a portrayal of President Obama, the president didn't write the stimulus bill. The bill was written by Speaker Pelosi in the House and by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For goodness sakes, we just had a chimpanzee who went nuts yesterday. The speaker of the House and the majority leader...

An invitation from Cooper City Church of God. South Florida Israel Awakening Weekend.

Cooper Arms owner Dan Cooper backs Obama. Can't post the article due to copy write infringement, But I thought you might want to know that a gun manufacturer is supporting a gun grabber. He said he was he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention.

...It has been rumored that in one year [CNN] spent about 27 million dollars in advertising of Anderson Cooper...the President of CNN told me that Anderson Cooper has a staff of nearly 60. We beat them with our staff…of about 12.

A simple-to-make "superlens" can focus 10 times more sharply than a conventional lens. It could shrink the size of features on computer chips, or help power gadgets without wires. No matter how powerful a conventional lens, it cannot focus light down to more than about half its wavelength, the "diffraction limit". This limits the amount of data that can be stored on a CD, and the size of features on computer chips. Researchers have devised ways to beat the diffraction limit before, using bizarre "metamaterials" that are hard to make, and which are also the basis of prototype "invisibility cloaks"....

The production version of Lifan's egregious MINI clone is set to debut this weekend at the Beijing Motor Show. The Lifan 320 as it's called has an 87-horsepower 1.3L underhood that drives the front wheels alone. We're sure that Lifan will point to the car's standard 5-door hatchback layout as evidence that its not a true MINI copy, but let's all be serious here. Droopy headlights, fat D-pillars and traditional placement of the extra doors don't temper the blatant rip-offedness of this Grade D doppelganger. Even the wheels are copies. On a more amusing note, who knew MINI's humorous...

The enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper may have moved a step closer to a resolution of the 36-year-old aircraft hijacking case. The FBI Seattle field office has recovered a parachute canopy that children discovered in a heavily wooded area near Amboy in southwest Washington. Larry Carr, the special agent in charge of the case, said Tuesday that the location is in the center of an area that has been identified as the most probable landing zone of Cooper, the name given to the unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 in 1971. The hijacker bailed out somewhere over southwest...

Apparent copper thief gets severe shock 02:29 PM CST on Thursday, February 28, 2008 By JESSICA VESS KVUE News Witnesses describe how a copper thief caused a major power outage in East Austin Wednesday afternoon. Over 7,000 people were without electricity for more than two hours, and authorities say the thief was air lifted to the hospital with severe electrical burns over his entire body. The latest on the case The man was inside the Kingsbury substation. 138,000 volts flow through that substation. There are only 10 substations that large in the entire city. It's fenced in and the gates...

NASHVILLE — Embattled state Sen. Jerry Cooper has decided to retire from the Legislature and appeal the record $120,000 civil penalty imposed against him last month by the Registry of Election Finance, according to his attorney. “Simply put, after Sen. Cooper’s well-publicized problems over the last several years, his medical, legal and other bills make it impossible to pay this penalty,” attorney Michael D. Galligan of McMinnville wrote in a letter to Registry Director Drew Rawlins. “Sen. Cooper would represent to the Registry that he intends to retire prior to the next election upon completion of several ongoing projects he...

A TVNewser tipster tells us a round of layoffs hit Anderson Cooper 360 this afternoon. CNN confirms seven producers from the show are being laid off. A spokesperson tells TVNewser, "The format of AC360 has evolved over the last year and we are adjusting staff accordingly. A very small portion of the staff is impacted and we are hopeful they will remain with CNN." This summer AC360 implemented a format that is live for the first hour (10pmET) and remains live or partially live for the second hour (11pmET).

On a rainy night in 1971, the notorious skyjacker jumped out of a 727 and into American legend. But recently, a chance lead to a Manhattan P.I. may have finally cracked the case.

Cooper show goes to tape in second hour Anderson Cooper is about to do a 180. CNN is permanently shifting to taped programming for the second hour of "Anderson Cooper 360," scaling back an ambitious programming block created in 2005 to showcase the studio and field-reporting talents of Cooper, who it viewed as an emerging star. CNN launched Cooper in the two-hour live block starting at 10 p.m. ET in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina two years ago, placing him alongside Aaron Brown, whose "NewsNight" had been extended an additional hour to report on the disaster. But CNN soon benched...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A southeast Missouri legislator will resign his post and surrender his law license after pleading guilty Thursday to fraud charges on immigration matters, his lawyer said. Rep. Nathan Cooper, R-Cape Girardeau, an attorney specializing in immigration law, pleaded guilty to an illegal scheme to obtain temporary worker visas for his clients in the trucking business, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Reap said. Cooper, 33, was not available for comment. But his attorney, Joel Schwartz, said Cooper will step down and give up his law license before his sentencing in October. Representative Nathan Cooper "This has nothing...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — State Sen. Jerry Cooper pleaded no contest today to drunken driving charge and was sentenced to one day in jail and a year of probation. Cooper, D-Morrison, was critically injured in a car crash on Feb. 7 when his sport utility vehicle overturned several times on Interstate 24 in Rutherford County. Cooper’s accident came after he attended three legislative receptions in Nashville. He was charged with drunken driving and surrendered on a warrant that showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.18 percent. Tennessee law defines drunken driving as a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent. General Sessions Judge...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court said Friday it would release some of the documents it reviewed when deciding to force journalists to testify in the CIA leak investigation. The ruling followed a request by The Associated Press and Dow Jones, which asked for the release of the sworn statements Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald gave to justify subpoenas for New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2005. Fitzgerald wanted the reporters' help in his investigation of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. The news organizations argued...

Former Time poobah Norman Pearlstine's new book about his role in the Valerie Plame scandal is titled Off the Record, but don't be misled: he devotes most of his time to naming names, mouthing off about his enemies, and firing back at those who criticized his cooperation with federal prosecutors. In a rare moment of introspection about Time reporter Matt Cooper, Pearlstine concedes, "None of his editors, including this one, provided adequate guidance." But mostly, Pearlstine sticks to a valuable lesson clearly learned during his time in the corporate corner office: Blame your underlings. Pearlstine faults Cooper and his fellow...

Absent senators give GOP an edge - - Cooper, Ford, Wilder out for medical reasons

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Two Questions By emptywheel @ 6:10 am Good morning firepups. Jane and I both had very relaxing weekends with the poodles and the MilleniaLab, respectively. Now that I'm all rested, I'm confident we're going to get a verdict this week (though Christy's making rumblings about an Allen Charge, as are some of the journalists). http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/26/libby-trial-what-is-an-allen-charge/ Though I just made a lunch date for tomorrow, presuming we get no verdict, so I'm hoping for tomorrow afternoon. We'll start this morning arguing about how Walton should respond to the two questions from the weekend. Then we'll bring the jury in to answer...

The “Cooper Counts” are heard in court. Two of the five felony counts in the perjury and obstruction of justice case against Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, are based entirely on a single phone conversation Libby had with Matthew Cooper, then a White House correspondent for Time magazine, on July 12, 2003. In federal court in Washington Wednesday, CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed his documentary evidence to support those charges — one count of perjury and one count of making false statements — and the evidence was this: had somethine and about...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported Monday night from the Center for the Intrepid, the new rehabilitation facility for wounded soldiers in San Antonio, Texas. Cooper announced he had a problem that this facility was privately, not publicly funded, as if raising private funds for Iraq vets was outrageous and inappropriate. This prompted the CNN anchor to ask Hillary Clinton a softball question using a quote from partisan hack and unwavering Clinton supporter Paul Begala about how the government could fund Halliburton and tax cuts, but not its heroes. Hillary said: "And I say Amen." But Cooper unintentionally answered his own question...

Scooter Libby has responded to Joseph A. Wilson's Motion to Quash a Subpoena Libby isued to him as a "precaution" to assure he'd be available to tesify if necessary at the forthcoming criminal trial. Case 1:06-mc-00560-RBW Document 4 Filed 01/03/2007 Aside from citing the relevant strong legal precedent in his favor, detailing his efforts to accommodate Wilson's travel schedule and deriding as factually absurd the claim that the subpoena is meant to harass Wilson and affect his civil case against Libby as to which there is a pending Motion to Dismiss, Libby sets out the factual reasons why Wilson may...

WASHINGTON — Some journalists who made careers out of questioning government officials and bearing witness to history may soon find themselves answering questions from prosecutors as key witnesses in the CIA leak case. Ten or more reporters from some of the most prominent news organizations could be called to testify in the perjury and obstruction case of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. It's rare enough for reporters to become witnesses. But the Libby case is even more unusual because journalists will be dueling witnesses -- some called by the defense team, some by prosecutors. "It will be...

Jihadists PLAN for the world VS The Sin of "moderates" in Islam, Reza Aslan spins on ac360 Dec, 3, 2006 This weekend, Mr. Anderson Cooper anderson.cooper@cnn.com on his http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/ wrapped up the Pope's visit to Turkey: "When faiths collide". He finished it off with the subject of "clash of civilization" and about radical Muslims committing terrorism in the name of Islam, he then asked the question what we in the west want to know: "What is it that Jihadists want"? Iranian born Reza Aslan answered the following outrageous answer: "Every religion has fundamentalists, Jihadist are (only) a reaction to something......

Politics might be the top water-cooler conversation this week, but don’t expect to hear it coming over the airwaves from shock-rocker Alice Cooper, whose syndicated radio show has been picked up by Boston’s WZLX-FM. “I don’t do politics. Hate politics,” said Cooper, who said rock and politics don’t mix. “Rock ’n’ roll is entertainment. Since when do we rockers know anything about politics?” Cooper, 58, was a guest DJ early yesterday at WZLX (100.7), where his syndicated radio show, “Nights with Alice Cooper,” now airs on Saturday nights. The granddad of theatrical metal performed at the Orpheum Sunday and ends...

World-renowned firearms expert Jeff Cooper, founder of the Gunsite firearms training center in Paulden, died Monday afternoon at his home near the training center. Cooper, 86, had been battling several health problems in recent years. The family plans a private burial ceremony and will announce a memorial ceremony at the National Rifle Association Whittington Center in New Mexico in the near future. Cooper had been a member of the NRA Board of Directors. Born on May 20, 1920, in Los Angeles, as John Dean Cooper, Cooper who always went by "Jeff," earned a master's degree in history and taught history....

Friends, At the request of the family it is my sad duty to report the passing of our founder, Jeff Cooper. Jeff died peacefully at home this afternoon while being cared for by his wife Janelle and daughter Lindy. There will be a private internment at Gunsite by invitation, with a public memorial service at the Whittington Center at a date to be announced. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family. DVC, Ed Ed Head Operations Manager Gunsite Academy, Inc. 2900 W. Gunsite Rd. Paulden, AZ 86334

In an article shamelessly ignoring its role in the Wilson hoax and solicitous of the leaker, the New York Times, on a holiday weekend Saturday, mentions that Richard Armitage was the source of the leak of Plame’s identity.* It focuses on whether Fitzgerald was right to continue the prosecution after he knew Novak didn’t learn about Plame from Rove or Libby, the people the paper railed against from the moment Nicholas Kristof megaphoned Ambassador Munchausen’s fabulous tale of his Mission to Niger more three years ago: WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — An enduring mystery of the C.I.A. leak case has been...

Anderson Cooper of CNN, via The Corner: While on the Hezbollah side, it’s really interesting — I was in Beirut, and they took me on this sort of guided tour of the Hezbollah- controlled territories in southern Lebanon that were heavily bombed. They are much cruder, obviously. They don’t have the experience in this kind of thing. But they clearly want the story of civilian casualties out. That is their — what they’re heavily pushing, to the point where on this tour I was on, they were just making stuff up. They had six ambulances lined up in a row...

The New York Times may not withhold reporters' phone records from a federal grand jury investigating an alleged leak of a pending government raid on two Islamic charities suspected of supporting terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. A three-judge panel of the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled 2 to 1 that the Times has no First Amendment or other legal right to refuse a demand for the records from the grand jury in Chicago, which was empaneled by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald. The government's interest in rooting out a possible crime outweighs...

Should Patrick Fitzgerald decide to continue to pursue the 2 counts in the Libby indictment even though the Judge has found impeaching evidence in Time’s documents, I suggest Libby may want to use this evidence of Cooper’s journalistic malfeasance to further impeach him. The Haditha Scandal’s Other Casualty With the Pentagon completing its probe into whether U.S. forces massacred civilians one November morning in Western Iraq, the damage to America’s image abroad could take a further hit By MATTHEW COOPER/WASHINGTON Posted Friday, May. 26, 2006 In the original version of this story, TIME reported that “one of the most damning...

It was win some, lose some for the Libby defense team as Judge Walton handed down his opinion (40 pages) and order (2 pages) regarding subpoenas to various news organizations. I expect to read these later. Have a great weekend. WORTH KNOWING: On Judy Miller, the court says her public accounts of her testimony are reliable: ...after reviewing the subpoenaed documents (the draft articles and transcripts) and comparing them to the indictment and other news articles reflecting Miller’s anticipated testimony, there is no indication that Miller’s trial testimony will deviate in any way from her prior written statements. But I...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case. ADVERTISEMENT The order by U.S. District Reggie B. Walton also said the New York Times might have to turn over some information but reduced the scope of documents the newspaper and other news organizations would have to provide to lawyers for the defendant, former top vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Citing a lack of relevancy, Walton said that Judith Miller, a former Times reporter,...