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Alabama Attorney General Troy King Continues to Defend Casino Gambling

While I was in Alabama, the front pages of newspapers were dominated by reports of the state task force attempting to raid illegal electronic bingo operations. And the man being blamed for the confusion — which has sparked political and legal turmoil in the state — is Alabama’s Republican attorney general, Troy King. On the […]

Troy King and the Scandal That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Way Down (Low) in Dixie

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Everybody who follows Alabama politics knows about the gossip and everybody has a sarcastic joke about the state attorney general, so it’s not exactly news, which may partly explain why the state’s establishment media won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. Do a Google search and it’s hard to miss the online […]

Alabama: ‘Things Going On’

I’m planning to leave late tonight or early Thursday for a shoe-leather reporting trip to Alabama. That rattling sound you hear is either the transmission of the 2004 KIA Optima or me shaking the tip-jar like Carmen Miranda’s maracas in a Cuban samba frenzy. This trip continues the Grassroots-vs.-Establishment theme I’ve been covering for the past few months. There […]

Well, This Would Explain a Lot

The supermarket tabloids report, you decide: President Barack Obama has blown $10 million on drunken White House parties, Washington insiders tell GLOBE. This week’s Special Report rips the lid off the Commander-in-chief’s outrageous antics, including boozy conga lines and dinners featuring $150-a-pound Japanese beef! It’s must reading for every American. “Washington insiders“? It’s probably crap, […]

SCANDAL! Teen Girl Sexually Exploited by U.S. Troops Halliburton Starbucks Supervisor

OK, I headlined this but it deserves its own post: ABC News assigned investigative reporter Brian Ross to get the story of 16-year-old Starbucks barista Katie Moore and the 24-year-old manager who “essentially made her his sex toy”: “I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” Moore, now 20, told ABC News.”I was ashamed and embarrassed. […]

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano on ‘TurboTax’ Geithner and the AIG Scandal

Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Wow. I knew the Judge leaned libertarian — NTTAWWT — but I didn’t realize how hard-core he was until I saw that video. Lew Rockwell? Dude. A very interesting way to debunk that “neoconservative” smear against Fox News, eh? Giethner and TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky will testify […]

Ruh-Roh

A troubling story from New Orleans: Alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility. Also arrested were Joseph […]

AIG Trouble for ‘TurboTax’ Geithner

There’s blood in the water, and Congress wants answers: Shares of American International Group Inc. slid Tuesday, a day ahead of a Congressional hearing on bailout money that was given to the troubled insurer. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a House committee about funds intended for AIG that were then […]

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