After a peaceful Daley Plaza rally that police estimated drew fewer than 3,000 people, members of the National Nurses United boarded buses while several hundred Occupy protesters and their supporters headed into the Loop for small spontaneous marches. Groups of 200 to 300 protesters snaked their way toward the Michigan Avenue bridge. Around 1:15 p.m., [Read more...]
A protester was removed from a speech given by Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Georgetown University. (Source: FOX) Protesters interrupt: MURDERER: Sebelius heckeled – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was interrupted by anti-abortion protesters Friday during her commencement speech at Georgetown University, where religious opposition to her appearance had been building for weeks. [Read more...]
Flesh-eating bacteria to claim Aimee Copeland’s hands and foot as she continues to put up a fight ~ Background: May 13th Original Post: May 9th Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting aggressive flesh-eating bacteria, was informed by her father Thursday that the doctors would have to amputate her hands and her remaining foot. [Read more...]
The House has passed a $642 billion defense bill despite a White House veto threat. The vote Friday was 299-120. The bill breaks the deficit-cutting agreement that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer, instead adding $8 billion for the military for next year. The bill calls for a missile defense site on [Read more...]
Saint John Paul II Pope… My fondest memories of being Polish in Chicago were the smells of the delis on Milwaukee Av. Fighting for Lech Walesa , our charismatic leader, who co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union. The pride when we got “Papa”, Pope John Paul II. My mother, oldest daughter [Read more...]
WASHINGTON – The House on Friday endorsed the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even for U.S. citizens seized on American soil. A coalition of Democrats and tea party Republicans fell short in their effort to end the controversial policy established last year and based on the post-Sept. 11 authorization for the use of [Read more...]
ABC News reports that Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, had drugs in his body on the night of his death: ~ NOTE: This is ‘buried’ at the VERY end of this report in the last line: The teen, who lived in Miami, was in [Read more...]
Event challenges grass roots to take America back… “What comes after a tea party?” Cain asked. “A revolution. Not with bombs and bullets, but with brains and ballots. That’s how we’re going to take back our nation.” “The Obama administration not only failed to secure the borders; they’ve given guns to the enemy,” Cain said. [Read more...]