Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
Archive for February, 2010
Corporations Legally Able to Spend Major Money In Political Campaigns
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: corporation, court, funding, government, Politics, supreme court
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Pimp that Punked ACORN Arrested for Wire Tapping
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Veritas in Crime, PoliticsTags: ACORN, James, landrieu, new orleans, o'keefe, phone
A hero of conservatives who bruised the liberal group ACORN by posing as a pimp on hidden camera is now accused in an attempt to tamper with phone lines at Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office inside a federal building.
Florida Kiteboarder Attacked and Killed By Sharks
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Mother Nature, Sad NewsTags: Florida, kiteboarder, shark, shark attacks
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New Zealand Virgin Auctions Herself for Tuition
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly EnoughTags: auction, tuition, virgin, virginity
A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal, police warned Wednesday. The anonymous 19-year-old student offered her virginity to the highest bidder on the Web site http://www.ineed.co.nz under [...]
Stab Victim Walks Away With Blade In Her Back
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Oddly EnoughTags: knife attack, stabbing, victim
An extraordinary picture that has gone around the world of a knife plunged into the back of a woman mugging victim is genuine, it was revealed by doctors in Moscow tonight. Julia Popova, 22, was stabbing by a mugger as she walked home from work one day last autumn – but she was so traumatised [...]
10 Baptists Arrested in Haiti for Abducting 33 Children
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, ReligionTags: baptists, church, Haiti, Idaho, kidnapping
A group of Idaho Baptists have been arrested in Haiti for abducting 33 children and attempting to smuggle them across the border into the Dominican Republic. Haitian Prime Minister Max Bellerive denounced the group’s “illegal trafficking of children.” The Prime Minister is right to be angry. Seizing children illegally and smuggling them over the border [...]
Banker is Caught on Camera Analyzing the Assets of a Victoria’s Secret model.
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in CrimeTags: model, victoria secret
9 Yr. Old Chinese Girl Gives Birth
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Oddly EnoughTags: 9 year old, baby, birth, China, chinese, infant
A nine-year-old schoolgirl has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a 6lb baby by caesarian section. The baby was delivered on January 27 at a hospital in Changchun, in the North Eastern Chinese province of Jilin, when the girl was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, according to a local newspaper.
A Drunk Taxi Driver Carries 49 Kids in His Cab
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Simo Häyhä in Oddly EnoughTags: Africa, drunk driver, taxi, traffic
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African minibus taxi driver five times over the legal blood alcohol limit at breakfast time was arrested on Wednesday for transporting 49 children in a 16-seat vehicle.