Fewer Americans are
looking for work than at any time since the 1970s, as the job
growth slows and the official unemployment rate drops to 6.7
percent. Harry Reid is
blocking Republicans from offering amendments to a bill
extending unemployment benefits, jeopardizing the bill’s chance at
passage.- The NSA is still
lobbying to keep as much of its power as possible ahead of an
expected announcement by President Obama on reforms. - Sixty-seven Democrats in the House
voted for a bill requiring the feds to inform users whose data
is breached under Obamacare, despite opposition from Congressional
Democratic leadership and the White House. - Six Fort Lee residents are
filing a class action lawsuit against Governor Christ Christie
over lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. Democrats,
eager to exploit a good scandal, are
releasing 1,000 pages of documents related to the lane
closures. - A documentary filmmaker in Chicago
claims in a lawsuit that police sodomized him with a gun in
order to coerce him into being a drug informant - Bolivian President Evo Morales
wants to use his time as the chair of the Group of 77 countries
to push for the legalization of the coca leaf. - A book by acting general counsel of the CIA John Rizzo
claims one Hollywood actor offered his services to the agency
in exchange for $50k’s worth of good cocaine.
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