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Don McLean, the 74-year-old singer best known for his 1971 hit “American Pie,” says he is not impressed with the music of today. The singer-songwriter believes times have certainly changed since his early days in the music industry, and he’s claiming there is no longer music of substance when he turns on the radio. The folk-rock singer sat down with Tom Cridland for his YouTube series “The Greatest Music of All Time” to reflect on his musical career highlights. During the candid conversation, McLean partially discusses his political views, claiming that politics no longer “really mean anything,” and he likened...

A Georgia family is under fire for allowing a seventh grader to wear a T-shirt that mocked liberal news network CNN on a school field trip to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters -- but the boy's parents think the school violated the First Amendment by making their son take it off. Nancy and Stan Jester, of Dekalb, are both local elected officials, she a county commissioner and he is a member of the local school board. Their son, seventh-grader Jaxon, wore a shirt mocking the CNN logo as “FNN” with the caption, “Fake News Network.”

Received via email. Sender says it was linked on twitter from the “hacktivist for good” the Jester aka @th3j35t3r: https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r Photo image of twitter conversation between 2nd bomber Jahar and his friend Troy Crossley. Troy says he heard Jahar out “poppen fireworks” and suggests he and Jahar go out and doing more. Twitter Conversation March 20, 2013: http://i.imgur.com/uP86MNz.jpg Then on March 26, 2013 a story from a Hanover, Massachusetts paper: Explosives cause concern in Hanover Mark Burridge Posted: 03/26/2013 10:20 AM Hanover fire and police departments seek the public’s help in identifying suspects or providing information in relation to two...

<p>I’ve been watching the fallout from the Boston Bombing with great sadness and interest. I have made a few observations, and that’s all they are. I will outline them below.</p> <p>Please bear in mind this is just a theory, a hunch. But if it looks like a bus, and drives like a bus, it’s probably a erhhm.. bus.</p>

What goes around comes around: Someone is hacking the hacktivist. And it may be none other than the hacktivist himself. A self-described patriotic hacktivist known as “The Jester” — who has garnered a reputation for taking down jihadist websites and is believed by those familiar with his work to be responsible for taking WikiLeaks offline during its recent dump of State Department cables — is claiming to be the victim himself of an online impostor trying to cash in on his name.

CNN) -- A computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables. The Jester, who describes himself as a "hacktivist for good," said he took the controversial site down "for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations."

SNIPPET: "I had an interesting demonstration this evening from a hacker who goes by the handle “The Jester” or in so-called l33t speak, th3j35t3r which is his Twitter ID. Since January 1, The Jester has been systematically wreaking havoc with several websites he associates with Al Quiada and Jihadists via a Denial of Service attack delivered over the web through an anonimizer service. The Jester has been documenting his attacks against www.alemarah.info, www.radicalislam.org, islamicpoint.net, www.almaghrib.org, www.as-ansar.com, www.islamicnetwork.com, www.islamicawakening.com, www.ansarnet.info, since the beginning of 2010." SNIPPET: "So my message to The Jester (I know you are reading this since I sent...

According to Time, with the passing of Walter Cronkite, America’s choice for “most trusted newscaster” is . . . Jon Stewart? Really? Perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it is discouraging to learn that a plurality of my fellow citizens prefer a jackanapes who treats news events with disingenuous mockery to . . . uh . . . well, Brian Williams isn’t so bad. Sometimes. And this I can believe: Katie Couric ran a distant, dead-dog last.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain says he's ready to work President-elect Barack Obama on economic and national security issues. McCain, who lost the presidential election to Obama, says there will be some areas of disagreement. But he says the nation's problems are too big for political divisiveness. The Arizona senator says people want the government to unite and work together.

'Jester wanted': England brings back the clown LONDON (AFP) - An advertisement for the first state jester to be employed in England since 1649 will appear in the Times newspaper on Thursday. The jester, an outrageously-dressed clown complete with triple-pointed hat, is being sought to once again entertain the crowds, as he used to in the royal courts of Europe during the Middle Ages. English Heritage, a public body responsible for the country's historic environment, is reviving the post which was last seen in the court of King Charles I. The job will be advertised for the first time in...

The kingdom of Tonga is not amused. It entrusted its fortune – admittedly a meagre fortune – to the official court jester and promptly lost it in a string of bad investments. The jester, a Californian investment adviser with a sideline in "wellness" cures, insists he made an honest mistake, but the Tongan government believes he has been laughing all the way to the bank, and is suing to try to recover the money. Jesse Bogdonoff first became chummy with King Taufaahau Tupou IV as an account manager at the Bank of America in San Francisco. That was where the...