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A reliable vote for Nancy Pelosi became the first incumbent to lose his congressional seat this year: Rep. Alan Mollohan lost his 28-year lease on WV’s 1st congressional seat. Mollohan was defeated by state Sen. Mike Oliverio in the WV Dem primary election, 56-44% with 82% of the precincts reporting. Mollohan has conceded. Mollohan Defeated! […]
Jumping off a sinking ship and jumping on the bandwagon are just doing what comes naturally, right? Not for Hillary Clinton’s supporters in KY, who stuck by their candidate, despite the certainty that Barack Obama’s win in OR would push him past her in pledged delegates. And as in WV and other states in which […]
The Mountain State proved insurmountable to Barack Obama, who conceded the contest to Hillary Clinton before the first vote was even cast. Unlike last week’s nail-biter in IN, within a nanosecond of polls closing at 7:30 p.m. ET, the networks put the check mark next to Hillary’s name (65 percent to Obama’s 28 percent). Hillary […]
Barack Obama (D-IL) had said that IN would be the tie-breaker, after Hillary Clinton (D-NY) won PA and he won NC as he was expecting to. And so the tie was broken – but just barely. Hillary won IN 51 percent to 49 percent, and lost NC by 41 percent to 56 percent. Hillary’s disappointing […]
New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.†According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,†in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw […]
A construction worker in the movie industry killed himself at one of Mel Gibson’s homes in the Agoura Hills, near Malibu. 48-year-old, Michael John Van Dyke, hanged himself on one of the structures under construction on Gibson’s property. His body was discovered early yesterday morning by the job site foreman. According to TMZ, Mel’s rep […]
February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether. Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal†or a “phony Republican,†and Fmr. […]
Ron Paul spoke to the Delegates at the WV GOP Convention Today His themes of Personal Liberty and Limited Government Drew Applause But A New Idea for the War on Terror–against Al-Qaida–Had some Delegates Talking Later Ron Paul brought his campaign to West Virginia this morning to speak to the 1200 delegates of the WV […]
The WV Republicans Awarded 18 Delegates at their Convention this Morning After No Candidate was Able to reach 50% the first Round, The Second Round Started It was Then that some Old-fashioned Horse-trading Began Huckabee the Surprise Winner of First Super Tuesday Event to Conclude In a Machiavellian finish, Mitt Romney got froze out of […]
(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]
Early Results from the Maine Caucuses Show Romney ahead, Paul 2nd Seven Quotes from Ron Paul’s Denver Speech yesterday Paul to be Represented at WV GOP Convention Tuesday; WV GOP Paul Delegate Totals Is Ron Paul the Anti-McCain? UPDATE: SATURDAY, February 2, 2008 2:15 pm Mitt Romney took an early lead in presidential preference voting […]
The Ron Paul Campaign Update for Sunday evening, January 27, 2008 Efforts to Ensure Accurate Delegate Count in Louisiana Continues Re-count in New Hampshire Paul will Campaign in Maine on Monday, January 28. Super Tuesday Schedule with Delegate Counts With the primary season getting ready to kick into high gear, the Ron Paul campaign is […]
“There are days when you feel like you are going to lose your mind.” In an interview with ABC 13 Sheryl Sawyers’ grief was raw. She said she felt she was in a bad dream, that this was something that only happened to other people. Both Sheryl and Robert’s love for their little Riley was […]
“No timely Communication” cited in Resignations of Two Congresswomen Misdeeds by Congressional Pages Include Shoplifting, Oral Sex, Fist Fights House Leadership Changes, Problems Remain Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved quickly to snuff out “PageGate II”, the revelations that the House Page Board has been getting timely information. These are the same charges that dogged Republicans […]
What’s Going to Happen? Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing A state of confusion and shock in the college football world? What could be better! After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now. Here […]
Overview of Game 30 Years of Backyard Brawl Highlights A Newsflash and a Poem It’s the Mountaineers Vs. the Panthers with a berth for WVU in the BCS National Championship on the line. 100 Years of the Backyard Brawl between West Virginia University and University of Pittsburgh. A story, scenes from the last 30 years, […]
The Thompson Campaign has Quietly Lined up Pro-Life Endorsements West Virginians For Life Announce Support One Problem Thompson Doesn’t Have Fred Thompson picked up an endorsement today that highlights one problem he doesn’t have: his backing by pro-life forces. West Virginians for Life gave their endorsement to Thompson. The Republican candidate from Tennessee, who has […]
The headline calls up visions of monkeys amok. A truckload of monkeys rolls over on I-70 near Wheeling WV and PETA was absent at the accident scene. No monkeys were harmed in the production of this story. More from Shelley Hanson at the Wheeling Intelligencer: Fifty-three monkeys and two people were involved in a two-vehicle […]
BNN Exclusive:Can a smaller state affect the outcome of the 2008 Presidential nominating process for the entire country? It just might, if Republicans from West Virginia have anything to do with it. West Virginia Republicans have scheduled a first-ever nominating convention for February 5 of next year–“Super Duper Tuesday” as it’s been called. 21 states […]
Economist Tijan Sallah speaks!!! “It is hard to make such blanket generalization as the single underlying motivation for the brain drain. As I mentioned, some did go back but find their respective countries inhospitable to them to live. They are now working abroad and sending remittances to their families. Ideally, they should have been home, but we […]
Mercury in fish is now recognized as a major health threat, especially for children, but surveys show that only about two-thirds of the public know which fish are high in mercury. The EPA and FDA issued a joint advisory in 2004, warning women of childbearing age, expecting and nursing mothers and young children to not […]
The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases […]
First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after […]
I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were […]
A man died in West Virginia recently as his parachute didn’t open in time following a leap from a 876 foot bridge. The death was part of the Bridge Day festival, where hundreds of people come to jump from the bridge. And the part that is hard to ponder, is that the jumping continued following […]
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