Your cost of living increase – your personal inflation rate – may be much larger or smaller than that of the person next door. Your spending choices matter a great deal in determining your personal inflation rate. … Read More
How Dare Hamid Karzai Take Our Money!
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams had a most peculiar reaction to revelations that:Afghan president Hamid Karzai receives regular deliveries of cash from the Central Intelligence Agency. … Read More
Three suspects charged in connection with Boston Marathon bombing case
Updated: 2:35 p.m.All three suspects have been charged, according to Boston court documents.The first two suspects, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, have been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice for “destroying, concealing, and covering up objects” belonging to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The full complaint can be read here.The third suspect, Robel Phillipos, was charged with making false statements in a terrorism investigation. The full complaint can be read here.Updated: 12:12 p.m.NBC News’ Pete Williams is reporting that the three suspects currently in custody have been under FBI surveillance for more than a week, and while “there was no indication they had any prior knowledge of the bombing” sources told NBC News that “the FBI had been investigating [the suspects] for about 10 days.”More from NBC:Continue Reading… … Read More
FBI probes Virginia governor’s failure to disclose gifts from campaign donor
Federal investigators are looking into the connections between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and a campaign donor that runs a health supplements company in the state, four unnamed sources told The Washington Post. The Post learned that Star Scientific CEO Jonnie R. Williams Sr. and McDonnell…
FBI looking into McDonnell’s ties to donor
FBI agents are looking into the ties between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, R, his wife Maureen, and the chief executive of Star Scientific, Jonnie R. Williams Sr, a major campaign donor to McDonnell who paid for $15,000 worth of catering at his daughter’s wedding. McDonnell did not disclose the donation in his 2012 filings.Investigators are also looking into other potential gifts that McDonnell did not disclose, the Washington Post reports.From the Post:Now, federal officials are trying to determine whether to expand that investigation into a broader look at whether McDonnell or his administration took any action to benefit Star Scientific in exchange for monetary or other benefits, according to the four people familiar with the interviews. It is unclear whether the probe will be broadened.Star Scientific, which manufactures the dietary supplement Anatabloc, has recently been the target of a securities probe by Virginia investigators.Continue Reading… … Read More
A salon: Two gay GIs debate Bradley Manning
The court martial trial of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who admits to leaking a trove of intelligence to WikiLeaks, is scheduled to start in June. But Manning, who is gay, was put on trial in the past week by gay activists, who battled over whether or not he deserved to be honored. SF Pride initially had made Manning a grand marshall of its legendary Pride Parade this year, before a scandal erupted, a boycott threatened, and SF Pride ultimately folded like a flimsy, rainbow-colored tent, with SF Pride president Lisa Williams calling it a “mistake,” and taking the opportunity to blast Manning.Continue Reading… … Read More
Gay Pride event rescinds marshalship offer for Bradley Manning
The president of San Francisco’s gay pride celebration retracted an offer Friday night for jailed Wikileaks source Bradley Manning to serve as the event’s grand marshal in absentia, calling it a mistake. SFist reported on Friday that Lisa Williams, president of the event’s board…
