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Daniel Hare, 39, met with volunteers Tuesday at the Waco Hippodrome, launching in earnest his campaign to become McLennan County's next district attorney. Hare is running as in independent in hopes of facing Republican nominee Barry Johnson, who defeated incumbent Abel Reyna last week. Reyna mistakenly made his approach to prosecuting Twin Peaks defendants too complicated, said Hare, director of employer relations and engagement at the Baylor University Law School. The May 2015 shootout at Twin Peaks left nine bikers dead and dozens injured, and Reyna orchestrated the arrest of 177 people at the restaurant that day on charges of...

Vandals targeted a Roman Catholic church in Lynwood, painting demonic symbols on the doors, statues and signs. ...cut off the hands of a statue and apparently spray painted "666" on a church sign.

18th District When you are the youngest member of Congress and have looks like those of Aaron Schock, you are going to attract attention. Schock, the 29-year-old Peoria Republican whose district includes a portion of Springfield, has been celebrated in magazine profiles, featured on “Top Chef” and, in general, celebrated as the new star of young conservatism. But more impressive than Schock’s celebrity is his mature and cautious take on it. Sure, says Schock, he’s attracted attention. But celebrity will mean nothing if he does not construct a solid record to back it. And besides, he notes, appearances on TV...

A couple of weeks ago, I came home to a distressed message on my answering machine. The voice on the other end exclaimed, “Kim! Where are the white-tailed ptarmigan?!” The distraught messenger is a friend of mine, someone who I consider one of the most knowledgeable and active birders in the Eagle Valley area. She went on to say that during her alpine hikes this summer she's seen plenty of pika but she hasn't seen a single ptarmigan and she wanted me to join her on a mission to find some.

Spare a thought for the poor punters who put a bet on Ginny Lou in the Finer Fruit Stakes in Australia earlier this week. The racing greyhound was coming a respectable third at the track in Shepperton, Victoria, when she was suddenly confronted with two hares to chase. Spectators were just as confused as the wild hare ran across the track, straight into the path of a thundering pack of eight greyhounds trained to chase him down. The rest of the dogs continued to chase the fake but Jinny Lou -showing a taste for reality over fantasy - veered off...

In this latest video, notice how his handler sees the camera and ushers the congressman away. He even grabs him by the shoulders and turns him away.

Researchers have attempted to study the affect of prolonged cellphone radiation on the sexual behaviour of male rabbits, and have concluded that there could be some harmful effects. In the research, the results of which have been published in International Journal of Impotence Research, the researchers divided a group of 18 male rabbits into three groups of six. One of which was exposed to radiation from mobile phones on standby (ie no calls were sent or received) operating at 800MHz for eight hours per day for 12 weeks; one group had phones that were switched off; and the third group...

Why should we be surprised? Didn’t the Democrats already tell us that they pass the bills and then let the Supreme Court sort it all out? And I am sure they told us they make up the rules anyway. From Adam Sharp via Gateway Pundit, this one at first made me laugh, then I started to cry. And make sure you go to Gateway, he is a funny guy. Adam tries to get an answer to the question, “Where in the constitution does it say you have to buy health insurance?” Hare’s answer (and yes there is an answer) speaks...

Congressman Phil Hare (D) represents the Illinois 17th Congressional District, which, by virtue of some rather labyrinthine gerrymandering, covers territory not at all far from St. Louis. On Thursday, at a "townhall" meeting in Quincy, IL, he was challenged on his "Yes" vote for the massive new health care reform legislation. "I don't worry about the Constitution on this," he says. The document he swore to uphold, he doesn't worry about. When pressed, he then says "I believe that it says we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"--showing his ignorance of the difference between the...

WATCH Rep PHIL HARE (D, IL) tell angry citizens he "Doesn't worry about the Constitution." He claims he read the ObamaCare bill "three times" before he voted for it. Then he runs away while citizens holler after him. He's a LYING Socialist. Kick him out.

Congressman Phil Hare (D-MA) makes it abundantly clear that he's not too awful concerned about our Constitution. This porcine plunderer is a living example of all that many of us are disgusted by. Mark my words, we'd better be dead set on destroying this man and all the others like him, because they sure as hell are determined to destroy us all.

Whoa boy! Here is Congressman Phil Hare from Illinois: [VIDEO AT SITE] Questioner: [regarding obamacare] Where in the Constitution? Congressman Phil Hare: I don't worry about the Constitution to be honest with you Questioner: Jackpot brother! Congressman Phil Hare: Oh, you know what I care more about, I care more about the people who are dying everyday who don't have healthcare. Questioner: You care more about that than the US Constitution? Congressman Phil Hare: I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Audience Member: That's the Declaration of Independence Congressman Phil Hare:...

A poll of registered voters in Illinois' 17th Congressional District shows about 40 percent of those surveyed would vote to re-elect Congressman Phil Hare (D-Rock Island) if the election were held today. The poll, commissioned by QuincyNews.org, was conducted by We Ask America on November 22 between 4:30 PM - 6:30. In all, 15,000 random residential phone numbers of registered voters in the 17th Congressional District were dialed, resulting in 1,278 people taking the poll. The numbers dialed were randomly selected.

A woman who found a pregnant hare lying dead in the road performed an emergency operation to deliver its baby. Caring Leila Goss, 25, spotted the mother hare after it was killed by a car and immediately noticed its swollen stomach. She picked up the animal, which was still warm, and rushed her home to perform a caesarean section to try to save its young. She cut open the hare and brought one of her unconscious litter back to life - by draining fluid from its lungs and blowing down its nose

Mayor Giuliani left the gate early, sprinting towards the finish line off in a distance. Thompson waited, plotted and planned, leaving the gate last, well behind all others in the race, seeming completely unconcerned with the dashing hare, as he methodically set one foot firmly ahead of the other. Is it the tortoise and the hare all over again? Both candidates are a bit long-in-the-tooth. Both have fought and conquered cancer. Both have been qualified leaders within their party. Both have strong base support and both have the capacity to be a good executive. But each has a different strategy...

Officials have been forced to suspend flights into an airport in the Italian city of Milan due to a plague of hares. The animals invaded the runways at Milan's Linate Airport - and affected the operation of vital equipment.

A large and unusually bold hare was apparently so irritated when a dogsled team entered its territory that it went on the attack, in an otherwise peaceful forested area of northern Norway. Wenche Offerdal, who was driving the dogsled team in the Reisadalen area of Troms County, had never seen anything like it. She told newspaper Nordlys that she and her team of huskies met the hare while travelling between Saraelv and Seima Saturday evening. The hare appeared fully grown and quite aggressive.

A large and unusually bold hare was apparently so irritated when a dogsled team entered its territory that it went on the attack, in an otherwise peaceful forested area of northern Norway. Dogs are better known for chasing hares. It was the other way around in northern Norway last weekend. Wenche Offerdal, who was driving the dogsled team in the Reisadalen area of Troms County, had never seen anything like it. She told newspaper Nordlys that she and her team of huskies met the hare while travelling between Saraelv and Seima Saturday evening. The hare appeared fully grown and quite...

Where Are All the Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals. more ...

We all know about Aesop's allegorical race between the tortoise and the hare. This week we're seeing a state Legislature as dilatory as the former and as alacritous as the latter. The Assembly is dragging its feet on a measure that would repeal some very questionable -- and very expensive -- pension benefit increases granted to 3,200 state workers by former Gov. Gray Davis. "All of this was the result of buying Gray Davis," Sam McCall, who in 2002 was an attorney for the California Union of Safety Employees, told The Sacramento Bee. "We would not have got this done...