Honor Flight Network, a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices, will be sending over 30 veterans from the Wichita Falls area to Washington D.C. next week.
According to recent statistics, World Wa
After weeks of negotiations, President Obama and Congress finally came to an agreement regarding the United States budget. I understand that getting the budget right is an important task for our government, but toeing the line with an impending government shutdown seems a little risky. The collateral damage that would occur if the government actually shut down would cause tremendous economic pain when a lot of Americans are already feeling the pressures of a less than stellar economy. Thankfully the government will not be shut down - this time.
Watch President Obama's Weekly Address with his thoughts regarding the budget compromise.
Though most children can get a bit unruly, a second grade boy threw such a temper tantrum at school that police had to blast him not once -- but twice -- with pepper spray.
8-year-old Stevie Davis of Colorado caused trouble on the morning bus, but his anger escalated once he arrived at school when he threatened to kill his teacher and another staff member.
Television personality Glenn Beck announced today that he will be ending his daily 5PM program on Fox News.
According to the NY Times, Fox News and Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties."
UConn beat Butler last night in the NCAA Championship game with a score of 53-41; which sounds more like a junior varsity game score to me. Since all of our March Madness brackets were pretty much doomed after the Round of 64, this game just didn't seem as exciting as it should have been. I hope you didn't lose too much money (or faith in college basketba
Montana Republican Congressman Alan Hale is apparently courting a new (and hopefully small) group of voters: drunk drivers.
Yep, this week, Hale actually argued against a new House Bill that according to the Missoulian would allow courts in Montana to "look back to impaired driving offenses up to 10 years old when someone is being punished for a drunk-driving charge, a change from the current five-year cutoff."
Hale's argument? DUI laws are "destroying a way of life that has been in Montana for years and years" and that they are not doing small businesses any good.
Last year, Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener, continuing atradition of Presidents throwing out first pitches that stretches back to William Howard Taft in 19
Some may say that Texas fisherman Jason Kresse caught a shark, but when the 375-lb. sea creature jumped into his boat early last Monday, it kind of caught him instead.
The 29-year-old Freeport resident was out fishing for a red snapper with two coworkers about 50 miles off the Gulf of Mexico coast when they felt something hit the side of the boat. A few seconds later, the mammoth Mako was thrashing around inside the boat, much to Kresse and his posse's surprise.
