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William Hartmann felt like he was stuck in a “Mission Impossible” movie when he left a Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting in Detroit in November. Law enforcement advised him not to return home and instead escorted him, with just the clothes on his back, to a friend’s house for safety. “I was scared,” Hartmann told The Epoch Times. “[The police] actually had people stationed outside in different locations, watching, in case anything happened. They were there for three or four days.” Hartmann said he didn’t venture outside for a week. “I was afraid that somebody might recognize me when...

Marilyn Hartman, the woman known as the “serial stowaway,” was beaten up inside the Cook County Jail this week, sources said. Sources told CBS 2’s Brad Edwards that Hartman was assaulted on Tuesday. The offending inmate had some kind of episode – possibly a mental health issue, sources said. The inmate repeatedly struck Hartman and another inmate’s head against a number of hard surfaces. The Cook County Sheriff’s office Hartman and the other detainee were evaluated by Cermak Hospital medical staff and no injuries were found. Hartman was arrested for the eighth time this past fall for violating her probation.

... and the envelope please for Most Overwrought Hyperbole from Left-Wing Radio Host Rendered Deranged by Government Shutdown ... the winner is .... Thom Hartmann ... and it was the unanimous decision of our judges! (cue applause) Alas, Hartmann will be unable to accept the award in person, seeing how the ceremony conflicted with the next round of his strictly monitored medication schedule ... (Audio after the jump). What exactly did Hartmann say to win such a prestigious honor? Listen here but consider yourself warned, you may want to first ingest iodine as protection from the radiation (h/t for audio,...

Secretary of State Debra Bowen is considering running for the congressional seat expected to be vacated by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. "She is very, very seriously considering running for Congress," Bowen campaign consultant Steve Barkan said. "It's brand new news, and so she needs to take all factors into consideration." News broke today that Harman, 65, will leave office to take a job as president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, setting the stage for a special election in the 36th Congressional District. Bowen hails from Marina Del Rey, which is part of the district, and represented the...

TOPEKA — Wink Hartman could be taking a second run at the 4th District congressional seat — this time as a Libertarian. Hartman, who finished third in the Republican primary in August, met with Libertarian party leaders by phone Tuesday evening to discuss the possibility of his running in November. "Unless there are some serious red flags on our part, or there are serious red flags on his part, the likelihood of his becoming the candidate is very favorable," said Kansas Libertarian Party Chairman Andrew Gray. A decision is likely Friday, when party leaders will meet again after talking to...

Hartman reregistered to vote in Kansas on July 23, 2009, six weeks before declaring his candidacy for Congress. Hartman also has held a Florida driver's license, as shown by a 1998 DUI citation in Wichita. The period he held that license could not be verified because of a federal law barring public access to driving records. Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/07/11/1399181/how-true-are-claims-in-pompeo.html?qwxq=4115198&pageNum=2&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container#ixzz0tUNpOL6o

Wink Hartman, a Wichita businessman and candidate for the Republican Party nomination for United States Congress from the fourth district of Kansas, has recently voted in Florida, records indicate. Last November, acting on a tip, I telephoned the Palm Beach County Florida election office and found that both Hartman and his wife had voted in Florida’s general election and presidential preference primary election in 2008. Also, both voted in Florida’s 2006 general election. At the time of my call, both were still listed as active voters in Florida. Sedgwick County voting records show that Mr. and Mrs. Hartman registered to...

"If I were Wink Hartman, I'd use the tornado defense. Hartman, 64, is the front-runner for an open congressional seat in south-central Kansas. He's an oilman who has made his mark in Wichita, where he built a sports arena and owns a popular restaurant. But he's also a guy who is getting a tax break this year by claiming that the waterfront Florida home he and his wife own in Highland Beach is their primary residence. He has a valid Florida driver license, is still listed as a Florida voter, and has a Florida polo league named after him. These...

NOTE The following text is a quote: Third Man Sentenced for Distribution of Methamphetamine in North Idaho Michael Ray Opland, 52, of Shoshone County, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 188 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and failure to appear, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Opland to serve five years of supervised release following his prison term. Opland pleaded guilty to the charges in September 2009. Co-defendant Paul Dean Hartman, 44, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, had previously been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Lynn B. Winmill in January 2010...

The Texas unemployment rate jumped from 6.7 percent in April to 7.1 percent in May. While the percentage of Texans out of work is much lower than the 9.4 percent national figure, continued unemployment claims for individuals out of work for more than a week are 175 percent higher than they were in our state a year ago. In San Antonio, unemployment increased to 5.8 percent in May from 5.4 percent in April. The national jobless rate is the highest since July 1983, and this current economic environment has a more worrisome feel to it than that recession. What is...

News Advisory: Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, a group of retired ambassadors and senior military officers, will hold a Morning Newsmaker news conference Wednesday, June 16, at 8 a.m. EDT at the National Press Club (Zenger Room), 13th floor, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. The topic will be "The Need for Change in U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy." The group includes former ambassadors Jeffrey Davidow, William DePree, Charles Freeman Jr., William Harrop, Arthur Hartman, H. Allen Holmes, Samuel Lewis, Princeton Lyman, Jack Matlock Jr., Donald McHenry, Richard Murphy, David Newsom, Phyllis Oakley, John Reinhardt, Ronald Spiers, Nicholas Veliotes...

"Conservatives Get Campus Run-Around, but Show Will Go" Editor's Note: It's often very hard to be a conservative student on a liberal university campus today. But we salute Rich Stowell and his fellow conservatives at California State University at Hayward, who are working hard to get the conservative view heard on their campus. This article may be a classic example of the run-around that liberals give conservative groups on some campuses today. But this show will go on: see details at the end about next Thursday's debate. ~~o~~ There has been a bit of a bizarre controversy brewing at CSU...

States crack down on wildlife cruelty By Karen Mockler Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle RAWLINS – He stalked the buck antelope across the sagebrush desert northeast of town, where the flats are broken by tall, rocky slopes. But don’t call it hunting. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Hartman chased down the antelope on a four-wheeler. Once he’d exhausted the animal, he ran it over. The impact broke the antelope’s legs but didn’t kill it. Then Hartman strapped the antelope onto the ATV and drove to a campsite, where a crew he worked with was collecting moss rock to decorate Colorado homes. While an...

Clueless anti-war high school student protesters mocked by CBS News. Really. Wednesday's 60 Minutes II ended with a short piece by Steve Hartman, the guy who does the very Americana "Everybody Has a Story" vignettes, on how he suspects high schoolers are just using the protests to get out of class: "To me, giving up algebra for peace is a kind of like giving up brussel sprouts for Lent, just a little too convenient to be commendable." Hartman showed how they really need "to pick up a newspaper." Cut MRC analyst Brian Boyd alerted me to the Hartman piece, which...