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Police have accused a North Carolina pastor of attacking a McDonald's cook and trying to push him into a deep fryer. Dwayne Wadden, 57, was arrested and charged with assault after police were called to a McDonald's branch on S. Main Street in High Point, North Carolina, on Thursday. According to his Facebook page, Weeden is a pastor at Elevated Life International Ministries and works as a semi truck driver. According to police investigation records seen by Business Insider, he came to the fast food joint to assist his wife, LaToya Gladney, who is a manager-in-training at the branch. Gladney,...

North Park rancher Greg Sykes said he has tried to do things the right way since wolves migrated across the boarder from Wyoming into the area near Walden. He has kept an eye on the predators as they could be seen in the distance around the ranch he manages and got guardian dogs to watch over his cattle. “I was that one rancher that said, ‘OK, they’re here. Let’s figure out how to get along,'” Sykes said. “That’s what I intended to do.” Early on Monday, March 13, wolves killed one of his cattle dogs named Cisco, according to Colorado...

As her popularity reaches new lows, Vice President Kamala Harris is retreating to one of the few places she knows she’ll get a warm reception — Hollywood. Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, are scheduled to participate in a Democratic fundraiser on Monday evening in Los Angeles, according to multiple reports. Deadline said Walt Disney Television head Dana Walden is hosting the event along with her husband, Matt Walden. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, with money allocated to the Democratic National Committee and state party committees, Deadline reported. The vice president’s trip to...

Before he entered the race for the White House, Ben Carson signed on to a campaign to raise money to fight Obamacare. When Juanita McMillon saw his name, she was eager to get out her checkbook... She gave $350. Her money went to the American Legacy PAC, an organization with ties to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. With Carson as the face of its Save Our Healthcare campaign, American Legacy raised close to $6 million in 2014 — and spent nearly all of it paying the consultants and firms that raised the money. Just 2% was donated to Republican candidates...

BRASELTON, Ga. — An NFL player's ex-girlfriend is behind bars accused of attacking him and breaking his new girlfriend's arm with a bat. Police say the football pro's girlfriend tried to hide out at a Gwinnett County hotel after breaking into his house not once, but three times.

Friend, we have no one to go to right now. Read this news report: “...In August alone the Democrats raised $51 million from labor unions and a secret group of liberal billionaires.” 51 million bucks! . With less than six weeks before Election Day we are so far behind the Democrats it could have devastating consequences on the results in November. (SNIP) Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi rely on Labor Unions and Liberal Billionaires to back their entirely negative campaigns... We as Conservatives rely on grassroots support from Americans just like you. And we definitely need you right now. (SNIP)...

FALFURRIAS, TX -- A pickup truck driver ignored lights and sirens and accelerated to nearly 100 miles an hour, turning simple traffic into something else recently in Brooks County. Chief Daniel Walden alerted dispatchers as he pushed down on the gas pedal to catch the pickup driver. "Dispatchers let me know they got a call of a vehicle matching the description dropped off a load of undocumented right in that area that we were at," Walden said as the chase neared the county line....Five minutes later, they emerged from the brush, the driver in handcuffs. According to officials, that was...

Friend, I’ve got a match you can’t turn down: You chip in a dollar to beat liberal Democrats in November and I’ll chip in three bucks. That’s a good deal where I come from. The money you help us raise is public record and we must demonstrate that we’re going to fight back against Pelosi’s $44 million bomb. Midnight tonight is the FEC Deadline. It’s a big one. (SNIP) Please step up - it’s all TRIPLE MATCHED: (SNIP) Thank you for taking a stand with us. Greg Rep. Greg Walden NRCC Chairman

“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted its best fundraising day of the year on Wednesday, bringing in $584,000…” Friend, The Democrats have upped their game. Nancy Pelosi’s campaign machine just posted their single BIGGEST day of the year—over HALF a MILLION dollars in 24 hours. Every penny will be used to smear conservatives and further Obama’s extreme agenda. This is what we’ve learned in just the last few days: Tuesday: The nation’s biggest liberal super donors announced they will spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars this year to defeat conservatives. Wednesday: The Democrats rake in over $500,000 in a...

Congressman Greg Walden and Congressman Mike Pence filed the Broadcaster Freedom Amendment last night to the Financial Services Appropriations Bill that would kill any funding for the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" as well as stealth Fairness Doctrine in the form of proposed broadcast localism regulations.Democrats from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Senators Dick Durbin, and John Kerry have called for the return of this kind of regulation to the airwaves of America, but thanks to the support of millions of freedom-loving Americans, we were able to mostly close the front door to this government censorship.So now they are trying to sneak through...

Republicans introduced a bill Wednesday that would bar Congress, President-elect Barack Obama and federal media regulators from bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, which they said would all but eliminate the talk-radio industry. The doctrine, a 1949 requirement that broadcasters present opposing points of view on political issues, was scrapped in 1987 after the Federal Communications Commission said it restricted journalistic freedom. But a new administration with the power to appoint members of the FCC, along with Democratic gains in both chambers on Capitol Hill, has renewed fears among Republicans that the doctrine could be revived. "Freedom of speech is under...

Pombo and Walden question ONCR's Tim Lillebo in field hearing, as fire bombers fly by. by Kehn Gibson and Pat Ratliff, staff writers, The Tri-County Courier, 9/4/03 Like a defense attorney who found a crack in the witness’ testimony, Oregon Congressman Greg Walden bored in with the next question. "If you were to choose, Mr. Lillebo, just what definition of ‘old growth’ would you have us put in this bill?" Walden was questioning the Oregon Natural Resources Council’s eastern Oregon representative, Tim Lillebo, at a field hearing of the House Committee on Resources Monday in Redmond. The committee’s topic was...

Five weeks after losing a tight race for Oregon governor, Kevin Mannix resurfaced Wednesday as the sudden odds-on favorite to become chairman of a state Republican Party divided by a bitter leadership fight. The party's current chairman, Perry Atkinson, and his chief rival, Lynn Snodgrass -- recruited for the post by Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore. -- both dropped out of the race and said they would support Mannix. "My concern is reaching out to everybody in the party and pulling everybody together," said Mannix, who as Republican chairman would gain a platform to continue critiquing the work of the man...

<p>PORTLAND - The post-election infighting among Oregon's Republican party officials is escalating, with some saying U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith hogged the party's pot of money this year, at the expense of other GOP candidates.</p> <p>Smith disputes the charges, and so does narrowly defeated gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix, survivor of the party's highest-profile loss, who says he blames no one but himself.</p>

Oregon Republican Chairman Perry Atkinson, angrily complaining that the state's two Republicans in Congress are trying to "stab him in the back," on Monday said he intends to run for another term. Atkinson said he was confident he had the votes to win re-election, even though Sen. Gordon Smith and Rep. Greg Walden recruited another candidate -- former Oregon House Speaker Lynn Snodgrass -- to run for the party chairmanship. Atkinson, who had been silent about his re-election plans since Snodgrass announced on Nov. 7, said he thinks Smith and Walden are intent on a "hostile takeover" of the party...

[Source: <http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtondc/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1026993413147730.xml>] More From The Oregonian Washington D.C. News Effort to limit Klamath Basin farming fails 07/18/02 JIM BARNETT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House on Wednesday rebuffed an effort by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., to limit planting of commercial crops in two Klamath Basin wildlife refuges, but not before the proposal fanned an argument over urban and rural priorities. Blumenauer, who represents the Portland area, proposed ending production of alfalfa and row crops such as onions, potatoes or sugar beets on 2,000 acres of leased lands, saying the ban would cut water consumption, trim use of pesticides and protect wildlife....