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The man who allegedly shot and killed a deputy has been arrested, authorities in Nassau County, Florida said on Tuesday.. Patrick McDowell, 35, was taken into custody - and another man is saying that authorities mistook him for the suspect and beat him up. McDowell shot and killed Deputy Josh Moyers, 29, in a traffic stop on Friday, according to authorities. He struck the victim in the face first, then again in the neck while Moyers was on the ground, said Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper. McDowell, a U.S. Marine veteran, also allegedly used a rifle to shoot a K-9...

McDowell County, the poorest in West Virginia, has been emblematic of entrenched American poverty for more than a half-century. John F. Kennedy campaigned here in 1960 and was so appalled that he promised to send help if elected president. His first executive order created the modern food stamp program, whose first recipients were McDowell County residents. When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, it was the squalor of Appalachia he had in mind. The federal programs that followed — Medicare, Medicaid, free school lunches and others — lifted tens of thousands above a subsistence standard...

Though much of the discussion about a possible fairness doctrine for broadcasters went away when Republicans took over the House of Representatives in 2010, one Federal Communications Commissioner says there still could be an effort at finding a back door to the rules. Commissioner Robert McDowell told Chris Stirewalt on Monday's Power Play Live that localism, a proposal that gives the federal government the ability to make sure broadcasters serve their communities, could also be used to wedge in principles of the fairness doctrine.

The Revenge of William Tilghman of the S.J. Waring Rebel privateers in the brig Jeff Davis had captured the S.J. Waring on July 7. For the past week, they had been sailing for a Southern port.... .... William Tilghman, the black steward from the original crew of the Waring, concocted a plan to retake the ship. When the Waring was captured, the Confederates cut up the United States flag to piece together a Confederate flag. Tilghman had vowed revenge and his plan addressed such feelings. Just before midnight, with the Confederate captain and two mates asleep and the ship under...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is denying a charge that White House officials improperly influenced the commission’s net neutrality rules. In a November 2009 letter to Genachowski, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said media reports suggest “that Obama administration officials had knowledge of and potentially contributed to [the] crafting of” the controversial net neutrality rules. Specifically, Issa noted that a 2009 American Spectator article said a draft of the net neutrality rules had been circulated to Obama administration officials — and that Genachowski and President Barack Obama made suspiciously similar remarks about the rules on Sept. 21, 2009. Issa — then the...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Lee Westwood has spent the past month as the new No.1 golfer in the world, Jim Furyk was voted the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year, but Graeme McDowell has more claim than anyone to having had the most noteworthy season of all. He won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the first European in 40 years to do so, and was a Ryder Cup hero. That trumps three victories and the FedEx Cup crown, no matter how many million comes with ti.

"I want to devote some of my time so my grandchildren will have a decent country to grow up in," he said. Some of the main issues Benishek said he wants to address during his time in office involve the federal and state budgets. "My job when I get to Washington as I see it is to cut government spending, cut taxes and ease regulations so businesses can start getting back into business," Benishek said. Because the government has spent money outside of its means for so long, Benishek said the country's economy is "in the basement." For every dollar...

Reason #272 to Vote for Dr. Dan BenishekGiving all that power over your life to the Secretary of HHS, and letting them dictate what possible life-saving drugs will be covered is enough to vote for the one who will repeal. But, let's not forget that Gary McDowell is in favor of Obamacare, and said, "Universal Health Care was decided a long time ago in this country." He also said, "70% of your total healthcare in your entire life is spent the last three months of your life. And as a society, if we can’t get a control on that, we’re...

IRON MOUNTAIN, MI – Dr. Dan Benishek, candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 1st District, pledged that he would fight against any effort by the government to ration access to quality health care for seniors. “As a general surgeon for nearly thirty years, I will not allow Gary McDowell — or any other government bureaucrat — to decide which of my patients will live and which will die,” Dr. Benishek stated. “The fact that Gary McDowell thinks that rationing health care is needed — particularly at the end of one’s life — is both scary and unacceptable.” Dr. Benishek’s comments came...

The School Aid Budget of 2009 was decreased the per pupil annual grant to schools as a result of Democrat lawmakers including Gary McDowell. The idea was, to make the State less burdened by school aid, because Federal Stimulus dollars were going to fill the shortfall. McDowell shows us what he does in his free time in Lansing. The consequence of such actions is, as the Citizens Research Council point out in their publication, “The Fiscal Year 2011 School Aid Fund Budget: A Day Late and a Few Million Dollars Short” to burden the State further the following year, this...

Watch the video on PDB Watch's site. Democrat career politician Gary McDowell tries to tell seniors calmly that "we only have so many resources Will Gary McDowell let Grandpa die?Career Politician McDowell faces Career Surgeon Dan Benishek in the race for Michigan's First District. The seat is open in November after douchebag Stupak flipped on the Obamacare vote.

Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are “troubling.” Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added. In his 2006 book “Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America,” Lloyd wrote that public broadcasting outlets should be funded at a level “commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded.” He said that the funds do so should come from “license fees charged to commercial broadcasters”--the same “commercial broadcasters"...

America's Founding Fathers are seen by some people today as unjust and hypocrites, for while they talked of liberty and equality, they at the same time were enslaving hundreds of thousands of Africans. Some allege that the Founders bear most of the blame for the evils of slavery. Consequently, many today have little respect for the Founders and turn their ear from listening to anything they may have to say. And, in their view, to speak of America as founded as a Christian nation is unthinkable (for how could a Christian nation tolerate slavery?). It is certainly true that during...

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to re-impose the fairness doctrine: The move could undermine the justification for existing localism and children's TV regulations, and could be used against public radio. He also suggested it would not come back wearing a big sign saying, "it's me, the fairness doctrine," but would likely instead be rebranded. Those were some of the observations McDowell provided Wednesday in a speech to The Media Institute in Washington, which is a strong opponent of the doctrine. A copy of the speech was supplied to B&C. In the...

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Robert McDowell was sworn in on June 1 as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, giving Republican Chairman Kevin Martin his first partisan majority since taking office 14 months ago. McDowell, a telephone association executive until joining the commission, could cast major votes on media ownership and cable carriage rules at his initial FCC monthly meeting, on June 15. Until June 1, Martin has contended with a commission split 2-to-2 between Democrats and Republicans, and for a few months was even the sole Republican on the agency. Now, Martin is asking commissioners to reverse last year’s FCC decision limiting...

President George W. Bush is expected to nominate telecommunications lawyer Robert McDowell to fill the third Republican seat on the five-member Federal Communications Commission according to a story from Reuters. This news is crucial to the future of telecommunications because McDowell serves as senior vice president and assistant general counsel at Comptel, a group representing companies that primarily compete against big telephone carriers like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications. It may not be common knowledge that AT&T was a powerful lobbying force against the incumbent telephone companies and the acquisition of the company by SBC has reduced the competitive...

McDowell dismisses judges’ criticisms of murder sentences By JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell last night dismissed leading judges’ criticisms of sentencing for murder and manslaughter, stating he felt strongly that mandatory life sentences for murder are appropriate and desirable. Defending his policies in this area of the law, Mr McDowell also warned criminals who customarily used violence that, if convicted of murder, they could expect to go to prison for a very long time. Ruling out the relaxation of mandatory 40-year sentences for capital murder of gardaí, prison officers, diplomats and heads of state, the minister said it could have profound...