When the music’s played for a purpose, it’s hard to disappoint.
But the artists who came together at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Sunday night to help rebuild Alberta put on a stellar show for fans and supporters, regardless of the reason.
It was a full roster of performers...
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Rep. Keith Ellison: We’re Not Broke, The Government Just Doesn’t Have Your Money…Yet
Can they spell it out any more clearly than that? Ellison has been pushing this old canard for a bit, hopefully he gets shut down.
Via Townhall:It’s not a new idea, but then again liberals are not...
Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.
Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones — the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her...
A man has died one day after RCMP used a Taser on him in Leduc, Alta., a spokesperson for Alberta's Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says.
The 27-year-old man was taken into custody Friday night following an altercation with three RCMP officers at a gas station on the corner of 50th...
Rookie cops shoot 14-year-old dead
because they were loose cannon racist cowbo...oh wait...
after teen shot at fleeing man in South Bronx
Police shot and killed an armed teen in the South Bronx early today after the suspect chased and shot at another man, then refused to drop his gun...
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Unreal: Government To Spend 2 Billion Buying Land And Giving It Back To Indian Tribes
Meanwhile we are told we are having to gut military to its lowest levels since World War 2, and the Administration is touting the horrors of a sequestration that they themselves created.
Are...
Man Shoots Two Bank Robbery Suspects Who Kidnapped Him And His Wife
Via Fox News:
COLUMBUS, Texas – Authorities say a Houston-area man turned the tables on two bank robbery suspects who had abducted him and his wife by pulling a gun on the unsuspecting duo and shooting them both, killing...
"I want to be treated like a person with respect." says the man in the yellow pimp suit after being arrested for calling 911 because he ordered seven McDoubles and only got six
http://www.walb.com/story/22985151/man-calls-police-on-mcdonalds
It's probably nothing.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday...
North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold
Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’
North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally...
Anti-tobacco advocates are using a new Quebec study to make the case for a smoking ban on outdoor patios.
With smoking banned in bars, restaurants and public building, patios are seen by many as one of the last havens for smokers to enjoy their habit outside their home.
“It’s one of those...
State Bar Exam
I hate when stuff like this happens in Alabam..oh wait…
Via BostonMagazine.com:The head of the state’s bar examiners said Saturday that the board would take a look at protocol, in regards to religious head garments being worn during test-taking, after a Muslim woman was...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Oakland police say a television news crew was robbed of camera equipment at gunpoint in broad daylight even while accompanied by a security guard.
Officials say three men accosted the KGO-TV crew around 2:30 p.m. Friday in West Oakland. At least one...
attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan kills 9
France said it would close its embassy in Yemen for several days from Sunday and urged its citizens in the country to take precautions because of elevated security threats.
The decision came after similar moves by Britain and Germany...
Star Trek’s original Klingon, Michael Ansara, dies
The actor, who played the villainous Kang, died Wednesday at his home in Calabasas, Calif. after a long illness. He was 91.
Star Trek’s original Klingon, Michael Ansara, dies | Toronto Star
Gone are the days when kids moved out for college and never came home again. New research shows 36% of young adults are still living at home.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than a third of young American adults live with his or her parents, a 40-year high, a study released Thursday by the...
A suspected impaired driver who was shot and wounded by Alberta Mounties has been identified as a regular character on the reality TV show Mantracker.
A relative said Friday that Curtis Hallock was shot in the leg and arm and was to have surgery in hospital.
RCMP have released few details...
...erstwhile know-it-alls, aluminum fedora aficionados, and just plain armchair analysts...wtf is this black line through the Floridian sky?
http://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/its-a-funnel-cloud-its-a-shadow-no-its--what-is-it/2134503
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted plans by companies in New Mexico and Iowa to start slaughtering horses next week.
U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo issued a restraining order in a lawsuit brought by The Humane Society of the United States and other groups...