It turns out that even with the big budget cuts that canceled the Blue Angels and furloughed thousands of federal employees, the United States has once again hit the debt ceiling. In fact, according to the President's chief economic adviser, Alan Krueger.
He's been called America's scariest police chief. And apparently it's not just the criminals he is scaring. Mark Kessler is the police chief and in fact the only police officer in Gilberton, PA, population 800. As a sworn officer he can possess fully automatic weapons, which he demonstrates on YouTube.
Everybody's worried that the new health care law is going to create national sticker shock. On Wednesday, in his big speech in Illinois the president seemed to be saying, it certainly will - just not in the direction you expected.
Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.
Anthony Weiner, former congressman, now candidate for Mayor of New York, warned us when he kicked off his campaign that more inappropriate sex chats might emerge…
If school zone cameras are supposed to be solely for safety, then why does Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn want the money to stay in the general fund, where it can be spent on anything?
Over the weekend there were about 100 rallies around the country protesting the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
The President was selling Obamacare Thursday at the White House - dismissing Republican critics who say it's hurting working people. But I got yet another message from a listener who says that's exactly what's happened to her family.
When she was 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on her school bus because she had publicly criticized the Taliban practice of banning girls from attending school in Pakistan.
A prominent leader of one of Mexico's most infamous drug cartels has been arrested. But the war on drugs, along the border, and in the Northwest, is hardly over.
Robert Zornes, an RV park owner in Forks, got a little more than he bargained for when he purchased a 100-acre riverfront property on the Columbia River where he dreamed of one day retiring with his wife.
If you follow politics at all, you know Grover Norquist. He's the anti-tax conservative who famously said he wanted to shrink government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "Raising taxes is what politicians do instead of reforming government."
George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict has social media networks spreading the story of another Florida self-defense case - last year's trial of Marissa Alexander.
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