By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama continued to press forward Thursday in his effort to put his appointees in key jobs by nominating U.S. Attorneys for West Virginia and Wisconsin. The President nominated William J. Ihlenfeld, II, for the U.S. Attorney post in the Northern District of West Virginia and John William Vaudreuil…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The real math lesson here is: Don’t be so creative while teaching a math lesson. Better that it be boring. The Secret Service investigated a Corner High School math teacher in Jefferson County, Ala. after he demonstrated parallel lines and angles and explained where an assassin should stand to shoot President…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After a protracted legal battle, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt has been granted asylum, the Associated Press reported. A U.S. Immigration judge in Boston mailed the decision on Friday, AP reported. The aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is the half sister of Obama’s later father. A person must prove that they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Well Prez, you’re off the hook for now. Looks like you won’t be going to the Blagojevich circus. A federal judge in Chicago on Friday refused to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify in the trial of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Associated Press reported. Blagojevich, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 23-year-old armed man who was arrested Sunday at a North Carolina airport after President Obama took off appears to be harmless and was nothing more than a “cop wannabe’, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Airport police at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Sunday arrested Joseph Sean…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Tennessee white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday of plotting to kill Barack Obama during the presidential campaign and planning to kill dozens of other black people, AP reported. Daniel Cowart, 21, of Bells, Tenn., pleaded guilty Monday. His co-defendant, Paul Schlesselman of Helena-West Helena, Ark. pleaded guilty in January, AP reported….
white house photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into two death threats against President Obama that surfaced on Twitter regarding the historic health care vote in the House, according to the Daily Telegraph of Australia. “We are aware of the comments and are taking the appropriate investigative action,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden haven’t been shy about traveling out of the country. Mark Sullivan, the director of the U.S. Secret Service, told a Congressional panel Thursday morning that President Obama went on 31 international trips in his first year in office, a “significant increase…
