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The uncle of confessed Highland Park mass shooter Robert Crimo III insisted Friday that his brother “did the right thing” when he helped his son buy guns — while conceding that he would not have done so himself. “I support him 100% — I think he did the right thing,” Paul Crimo told CNN of his brother, the gunman’s dad, Robert Crimo Jr. The uncle admitted that he was “sure” that his brother “knew about” his son having been investigated for threatening to “kill everyone” in 2019, just two months before he backed the shooter’s successful bid to start buying...

Twilight Zone: St. Petersburg FL - The desk worker who mistook a dead woman for an April Fool's Day joke and threw the 96 year-old's body into a dumpster has been fired.Ronald Benjamin confirmed that the Peterborough Apartment complex fired him Wednesday morning.Benjamin, 61, did not want to say much more to News Channel 8 because he is so distraught about what happened Wednesday. Friends have been at his home, consoling him, throughout the day.“It’s one of those crazy circumstances that probably wouldn’t replicate itself in a hundred years,” said Mike Puetz, St. Petersburg Police spokesperson.The bizarre incident started Wednesday...

President Obama is ending his fifth year in office matching the worst public approval ratings of his presidency, with record numbers of Americans saying they disapprove of his job performance and his once-hefty advantages over Republicans in Congress eroded in many areas, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. His position is all the more striking when compared with his standing a year ago, as he was preparing for his second inauguration after a solid reelection victory. That high note proved fleeting as the president faced a series of setbacks, culminating in the botched rollout of his Affordable Care...

We all make mistakes, so perhaps this is just one of those cases where the results lend themselves to ridicule. From Fox News: It may sound absurd. But President Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires passengers who carry firearms aboard Amtrak be locked in boxes for their journey. It's a mistake in the law's wording. But for now, the clerical error is the law of the land. I'm sure there's no shortage of antis who would have no problem getting on board with that idea. Thing is: The bill text was correct when the House approved the...

Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin’s...

Why must the Republican Party nominate a 72-year-old grandfather from the Gulf Coast of Texas, until the past few months little known outside his district, as its 2008 standard-bearer? Very simple: the alternative is eight years of President Hillary Clinton. That ought to be enough to get the attention of every conservative who happens upon these words, so let me explain. It should come as no big revelation to anyone inside or outside of the Republican Party that the GOP has lost touch with its conservative roots. Massive deficit spending that would make Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter blush; foreign...

Written by Bruce Daniels - ABQnewsSeeker Friday, 07 September 2007 First-ever presidential forum aimed at Hispanics will be broadcast Sunday. The questions will be asked in Spanish, translated for the eight Democratic presidential hopefuls, answered in English (sorry, Gov. Bill Richardson and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who are both fluent in Spanish), then translated back for the questioner and viewers of Univision at a 90-minute forum scheduled to air Sunday. KLUZ, Cable Channel 41, is scheduled to show "Destino 2008: Foro Presidencial Democrata" from 6 to 7:30 p.m. New Mexico time. The first-ever candidates' forum aimed exclusively at Hispanics will...

Is Richardson (gasp!) injecting religion into intraparty Democratic Party politics? It's God's will for Iowa to hold the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus, Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson told a somewhat astonished Iowa audience on Monday, according to today's Des Moines Register (linked on The Drudge Report). "Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary," Richardson told those gathered at the Northwest Iowa Labor Council Picnic on Monday. "And I want you to know who was the first candidate to sign a pledge not to campaign anywhere if they...

Gregory Alston called police Tuesday morning to say his white Nissan Maxima had been stolen from in front of his apartment building. Trouble is, the car wasn't his. Police say he had stolen it at gunpoint two weeks earlier. The only reason he couldn't find it was because the victim had spotted it and called police, who towed it away. Not only did Alston not get the car back, police arrested him and jailed him on charges of armed robbery, possession of a stolen car and a handgun violation. Why did Alston call police? He had left his wallet in...