Female senators lashed out at top military brass on Tuesday following a damning Pentagon report on sexual assault and the arrest of U.S. Air Force sex abuse prevention officer. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Claire McCaskill…
Jon Tester backs gay marriage
Joining a slew of Democratic senators, Montana Sen. Jon Tester announced Tuesday that he also supports gay marriage.“Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families,” Tester wrote on his Facebook page. “How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I’m proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.”Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., Tim Johnson, D-S.D. and Mark Begich, D-Alaska, all endorsed same-sex marriages earlier this week.The Huffington Post lists the last of the Democratic holdouts, who only number ten at this point.Continue Reading… … Read More
Chris Wallace on Hagel: ‘I’m impugning his competence’
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday questioned if former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) even had the “competence” necessary to be the secretary of defense. During an interview with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Wallace pointed out that Hagel had admitted to misspeaking during his Senate…
Dalek designer dies aged 84
The man responsible for designing the Daleks, the robotic enemy of Doctor Who in the long-running television series, has died aged 84, his family said Saturday. Ray Cusick died in his sleep of heart failure on Thursday, his daughter Claire Heawood revealed. The BBC series celebrates its 50th…
“The Dinner”: The Dutch answer to “Gone Girl”? Maybe not, but no less thrilling
Like many modern people — especially the fictional ones who serve as the narrators of novels — Paul Lohman is nettled by newfangled affectations, particularly those of posh, trendy restaurants and their habitues. In an irritable, self-righteous tone familiar to anyone who reads Internet comments threads, he snarks about the place his brother has picked for the meal that gives Herman Koch’s novel, “The Dinner,” its title. Restaurants are not the only thing that gets on Paul’s nerves. While he and his wife, Claire, wait for Serge and his wife, Babette, to show up, Paul ruminates on the humiliations inherent in shaving: If you do it before a meeting, you betray overeagerness, but if you don’t you seem lazy or even sickly. “No matter what you do, you’re not free.”
Also on the list of things that bug Paul: the waiter’s insistence on elaborately recounting the provenance of every item they order (“Did you notice how he points with his pinky all the time?” Paul hisses to Claire), the “yawning chasm between the dish itself and the price you have to pay for it,” and the “vast emptiness” of the plates when they arrive bearing their dainty portions of food.
Barbara Nantais And Claire Hough Cold Cases Reopened With San Diego Police Ordering DNA Tests
The baffling murders of two teenaged California girls years apart on the same popular beach have been reopened with DNA tests ordered by police, according to KFMB.
On an August night in 1978, Barbara Nantais, 15, was strangled to death and disfigured by attackers at Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego.
Six years later, 14-year-old Claire Hough was found strangled and mutilated at the state park famous for its high cliffs, Fox News reported.
Todd Akin Criticizes Karl Rove-Backed Conservative Victory Project
Former Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) took a swipe at Karl Rove’s latest venture on Wednesday, blasting the Republican strategist’s new project as a “disrespectful” and thinly veiled attempt to “get rid of conservatives.”
“It may be another example of big-government conservatism, to try to bypass primaries,” Akin said in an interview with The Hill of Rove’s Conservative Victory Project, which will oppose fringe candidates in Republican primaries. “If they were successful, it basically helps kill the grassroots heart of the party. I think it’s very non-constructive.”
Akin waged an unsuccessful Senate bid against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) last year. Many blamed Akin’s defeat on his controversial remark that “legitimate rape” victims rarely become pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
