By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a letter last week after President Obama unveiled a new immigration plan. Tonight, President Obama will announce a series of executive actions to begin to fix our immigration system. The President views these actions as a first step toward the reform of the system, and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s son caused quite a scare at Logan International Airport on Saturday when his 12-year-old son told federal agents he had a fake grenade in his bag, MassLive reports. “I think I left (a) fake grenade in my bag!” his son said. Schilling tweeted that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In March of 1997, after being on strike at the Detroit News for 19 months, I headed off to D.C. to work for the Washington Post. Sure, D.C. was home to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but to me, just importantly, it was home to the legendary Mayor Marion Barry,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In March of 1997, after being on strike at the Detroit News for 19 months, I headed off to D.C. to work for the Washington Post. Sure, D.C. was home to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but to me, just importantly, it was home to the legendary Mayor Marion Barry,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly 100 additional FBI agents are in Ferguson as authorities brace for the reaction to a Ferguson grand jury that will decide soon whether Officer Darren Wilson will be charged with shooting an unarmed black teen, ABC News reports. Federal law enforcement officials have already warned of a potentially violent reaction….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For better or worse, the defining moment of Marion Barry’s storied political career was an FBI bust that revealed the D.C. mayor smoking crack in a hotel room in 1990. “Bitch set me up,” Barry said of the woman who was a part of the sting. Barry, who also was a…
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President Obama delivered a 15-minute speech in which he unveiled his immigration plan Thursday evening. “Today our immigration is broken, and everyone knows it,” Obama said.
