Category — politics as usual

Within minutes of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the District’s gun ban, leaders of the National Rifle Association began work on legal challenges against gun restrictions in Chicago and San Francisco, while gun-control groups said the decision would only strengthen their efforts.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.

Although it took the company just under two days to bring in $2.5 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2007 - the damages were reduced to 507.5 million.

The world’s population set to reach 7 billion in 2012.

Sunday mornings won’t be the same…

In a recent report, the Defense Department inspector general estimates that nearly half of the military’s $316 billion weapons budget went unchecked last year because the IG’s office lacked the manpower.

Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig’s restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician’s arrest last year at the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport

According to an undercover cop’s account, while in the airport bathroom, Craig “tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to my foot.” The officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, was seated in an adjoining stall and believed Craig’s footsie was a signal that the politician was seeking sex.

Courtesy: The Smoking Gun

President Bush recently vetoed a bill that would limit interrogation techniques to those approved in the Army Field document, a publicly available document.

“I don’t think I’ve touched marijuana since the late 70’s”

I don’t even want to touch on this one …