Pregnant Texas Actress Arrested for Allegedly Sending Ricin-Tainted Letters to President

 Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A pregnant Texas actress is accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and falsely accusing her husband of sending them, Fox News reports. During interviews with the FBI, Shannon Guess Richardson, 35, accused her husband of sending the letters and then later claimed he…

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The Post and Courier Editorial: “Mr. Holder Should Spare the President That Overdue Task by Resigning”

  By Post and Courier Editorial A Justice Department official insisted Wednesday that Attorney General Eric Holder has a “long-standing belief that protecting and defending the First Amendment is essential to our democracy.” That’s hard to reconcile with the department’s wide-ranging wiretapping of Associated Press editors and reporters last year. Also hard to reconcile is…

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Al Gore to Twitterverse: Privacy Should be a Priority

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Former Vice President Al Gore launched an unusual assault on the Obama administration over the revelation that the federal government is tracking cell phone records, The Washington Post reports. “In digital era, privacy must be a priority,” Gore tweeted Wednesday. “Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?” The…

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