Blue Herald

By JIM ABRAMS

WASHINGTON - A national security bill that would strengthen screening of air and sea cargo could be on the president’s desk within the next week.
The legislation, which aims to carry out remaining recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, also would shift more federal funds to cities and states at greatest risk of [...]

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By MARCIA DUNN

Gosh! Could we please have one great American dream go untarnished by some kind of controversy? - JS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America’s space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a [...]

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Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - “Hootin’ the Blues”
Plus Pete Seeger!

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YIKES!
From NBC12:
ORLANDO, FL (AP) — Florida’s U.S. senators are calling for the Pentagon to remove live bombs and hazardous chemicals near an Orange County school built atop a World War Two-era bombing range. School district administrators say they had no idea that Odyssey Middle School had been built on the bombing range just northeast [...]

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I’d like to know who the contractors were. 9.6 million……that’s no chump change.
From TurkishPress.com:
US authorities have arrested the sister of a US army officer accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes while he managed defense contracts in Iraq and Kuwait, the Justice Department said.
Carolyn Blake, 44, was arrested Tuesday evening in Dallas [...]

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A photograph of Marine Jeffrey Lucey sits in the home of Joyce and Kevin Lucey
WASHINGTON - The family of an Iraq war veteran filed suit Thursday accusing Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson of negligence in the suicide death of their son.
The lawsuit says the VA is to blame for the death of 23-year-old Jeffrey [...]

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Ok OK OK……..we’ve friggin established he’s a liar……times infinity.
WASHINGTON - The head of the FBI contradicted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales‘ sworn testimony and Senate Democrats requested a perjury investigation Thursday in a fresh barrage against the truthfulness of President Bush’s embattled longtime friend and aide.
In a third blow to the Bush administration, [...]

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Nothing more pressing to worry about Mitt?
From The Swamp:
Romney: Blocking Internet porn on home computers
by Rick Pearson
DES MOINES — Traveling throughout Iowa today, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would work with computer and software companies to ensure every new home computer has filters already installed that would allow parents to block [...]

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From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday he had subpoenaed two more White House aides, including political adviser Karl Rove, in the probe of fired federal prosecutors.
“This is not a step I take lightly,” Sen. Patrick Leahy declared in a Senate speech.
It was yet another salvo in [...]

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From YahooNews:
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine imposing a requirement of balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said.
Martin, in a letter written this week to Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and made public Thursday, said the agency found no compelling reason to [...]

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