To watch “The Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. We are being outsmarted. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. The Constitution says that we need the federal government to, quote, “establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, …
Read More »Lawmakers Consider Expanding Prison Rent Program
BOSTON – Getting thrown in jail means you can kiss your freedom goodbye. But starting this week in Massachusetts it’ll cost you even more than that. Sheriff Tom Hodgson of Bristol County is now charging prisoners $5 dollars a day rent for every night they spend in jail. Hodgson says …
Read More »Baseball Game Dedicated to Former Congressman
And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine: Missed The Grapevine? Watch it! To Pay or Not ToupeeConvicted former Congressman Jim Traficant still has supporters in some places. Wednesday night will be “Jim Traficant Night” at the minor league game of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, which could have been …
Read More »Sopranos Star Divorcing Husband
Lorraine Bracco| Golden Globe Sopranos Star Divorcing Husband “The papers are in.” So said Sopranosstar Lorraine Braccoon Sunday night when I asked about the status of her marriage to actor Edward James Olmos. They are getting a divorce. Bracco and Olmos married in 1994, but their relationship has been a …
Read More »Civil War Battlefields Now Sites of Suburban Warfare
CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLEFIELD, Va. – The Civil War may define American history more than any other event since the Revolution. But now, 137 years after the end of the Civil War, new battles are brewing between those who want to develop the areas surrounding national battlefield parks and those who want …
Read More »State Initiative Seeks to Outlaw Racial Data
SAN FRANCISCO – An anti-affirmative action activist in California is on a crusade to make the government color blind. Ward Connerly, who helped end affirmative action at the University of California and in the state’s hiring practices, now wants state officials to stop collecting racial data entirely at taxpayers’ expense. …
Read More »From Music Sensation to the Big Screen
NEW YORK – With the imminent release of her first feature film, Crossroads, pop music icon Britney Spears will be in good company among singer-turned-actor crossovers crowding the silver screen these days. The teen coming-of-age flick about three estranged childhood girlfriends who reconnect on a road trip coasts into theaters …
Read More »Ridge Job May Become Cabinet Post
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday that would create a Department of Homeland Security, a Cabinet-level post that would be made up of agencies like the Coast Guard and the Customs Service. Lawmakers argue the legislation would give the homeland security director the tools he needs …
Read More »Vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance
Video: To watch “the memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. We’ll have the latest on the Chandra Levy investigation in a moment. But first, a stunning veto by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. The …
Read More »School Desegregation: Locking the Kids In
LOS ANGELES – As part of a desegregation effort in Huntington Beach, Calif., white students attending schools withminority enrollment of 64 percent or higher are forbidden from transferring out while minority students are no longer allowed to transfer in. “It locks the exit doors for whites. It locks the entrance …
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