The security clearances of 11 members of the Secret Service have been suspended pending an investigation into allegation the agents engaged the services of prostitutes while in Colombia. The agents were in the capital Cartagena to prepare for President Barack Obama's visit there. Also being investigated are from five to ten "military troops" who were working with the Secret Service agents.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their tax returns to the public - something most presidential candidates do as a matter of course. The documents reveal that tax breaks for higher income citizens allow Obama to pay a lower tax rate then his secretary. GOP candidate Mitt Romney has not as yet released his tax records.
The game app "Draw Something" has been purchased by casual gaming giant Zynga for $200 million. In the two months it has been available "Draw Something" has gained 35 million users - so Zynga paid $5.71 million per-user.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will pair-up with Regis Philbin, who is coming out of retirement to co-host "LIVE! with Regis and Julian". The new Internet chat show will feature guests from the worlds of politics, intelligence, diplomacy, and soap operas, as well as featuring how-to segments on releasing top secret files to the public and making the perfect omelet.
National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre warmed up a crowd in St. Louis, Missouri, just before GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a campaign speech in which he promised to protect gun ownership from the onslaught of reason.
As many as 11 Secret Service members have been relieved of duty and placed on administrative leave. The uniformed and plainclothes agents were in Colombia to prepare for President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to that country. The agents are accused of hiring prostitutes and bringing them to their hotel rooms, where one of the alleged sex workers refused to leave because, in her words, "they owe me money".
The U.S. Secret Service, the agency charged with providing security for the nation’s top political officials, has placed 11 of its agents on administrative leave. The agents were in Colombia preparing for President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit there. It is alleged that they hired prostitutes.
“This is outrageous!” one member of Congress said. “Here we are in the midst of the worst economy in decades, when all of us in government are cutting back on our expenditures on prostitutes, and these Secret Service agents are catching South American coochie on the taxpayers’ dime?”
But the Service’s Assistant Director Paul Morrissey played-down the incident: “This is standard operating procedure, ever since the Kennedy administration. You never know when the President or a member of his party might want to pull-down some local tail, and we’ve got to make sure none of it is concealing any improvised explosive devices.”
Representative Allen West (R - FL) was asked at a town hall meeting in Jensen Beach how many members of Congress are "card-carrying Marxists". West responded that he thought there are 78 to 81 Communist Party members among Democrats in Congress - most of them members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Soon-to-be ex-presidential candidate Newt "Who Needs Me Now?" Gingrich said Fox News has been biased against him throughout his campaign, while "Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year".
Reports from South Korea indicate North Korea has launched its Unha-3 rocket. The U.S. and its allies consider the launch an attempt to test long-range missile technology. Early indications from the massive numbers of satellites and radar facilities pointed at the Korean Peninsula are the launch was not a success.
George Zimmerman, the 29-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin, has been arrested on a charge of 2nd degree murder. Zimmerman is accused of stalking, confronting, and shooting Martin on the night of February 26. He has not yet entered a plea, but the above image is an exclusive GraceLessLand "pre-enactment".
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney turned the tables on Democrats today as he made a pitch for women's votes. At a campaign stop in Delaware Romney said the Obama administration was engaged in a "war on women" because of the number of jobs they have lost. Romney is against a woman's right to choose and is a member of a religion known for its treatment of women as second-class adjuncts to men.
A California couple is suing PetSmart, claiming their puppy was strangled during a grooming session at the store. The suit not only seeks damages for the dog's death, but claims PetSmart attempted to falsify the results of a necropsy to cover-up their guilt.
Convicted murderer Charles Manson is seen here in a recent photo taken in prison to keep up-to-date with his changed appearance. Instead of looking like a crazy old man with a swastika tattooed on his face, Manson now looks likes a crazy even older man with a swastika tattooed on his face.
Best-Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned as the company investigated him for unspecified "personal conduct" issues. Best-Buy has steadily declined as the the leader in consumer electronics retailing under Dunn's leadership, and the company is seeking an "outsider" to shake things up in his place.
Actress Ashley Judd, star of the television series "Missing", has responded to speculation that she has had plastic surgery with a scathing indictment of the news media, their methods, and agenda. Unfortunately most of the people she was criticizing have no idea what she meant because she used too many big words that are beyond a 5th grade vocabulary.
While we have had a lot of fun at candidate Rick Santorum’s expense, that’s all part of the twisted politics and even more twisted sense of humor here at GraceLessLand. Good luck to Mr. Santorum, his entire family, and most especially his 3-year-old daughter Bella. A lot of candidates leave a race or an office with the lame excuse they want to “spend more time with the family”, but in this case that is the most noble reason possible. We look forward to skewering candidate Santorum again at some time in the future, and wish him and his family well.
GOP presidential candidate Newt "Reality Is For Losers" Gingrich admits Mitt Romney will "probably" be the Republican nominee who runs against President Barack Obama in the November election - but Gingrich says it's not yet time for him to step aside and give up his forlorn and hopeless quest for the nomination.
Mark Zuckerberg announced that his Facebook social network has purchased start-up photo-sharing Web site Instagram for $1 billion dollars. Facebook will instantly put a stop to whatever innovative thinking made Instagram a success "as per our usual business model", Zuckerberg said.
Veteran broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, who spent 43 years with the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes", has died at age 93.
…and I’m usually the mutual friend that introduces her to him.
NBC has apparently fired the producer responsible for the edited 911 tape of George Zimmerman speaking shortly before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The edited tape makes it appear as if Zimmerman offers a "racial profiling" of Martin, when actually the 911 operator asked Zimmerman to report Martin's race.
Members of Congress are demanding an investigation after an investigation revealed the Government Services Agency, responsible for making sure government agencies are supplied with everything from office space to paper clips, spent $820,000 on a conference in Las Vegas. Items bought for the conference included over $6,000 in commemorative coins, and shrimp costing $4 each.
Mirlande Wilson of Baltimore, Maryland, says she bought a winning "Mega-Millions" lottery ticket, but can't find it. The mother of seven, who works at McDonald's, says she hasn't checked her work uniform pockets yet. "I'm one of the super-rich now - I'll hire someone to look for it after they pay me" she said.
James Cameron's blockbuster film "Titanic" has been re-released in 3D. While some say the film has little to offer in the 3D realm, fans of Kate Winslet know otherwise.
Rick Santorum's campaign is disputing the delegate count in the GOP presidential nomination race. Santorum's camp claims he has 342 delegates to rival Mitt Romney's 571. However CNN and other sources claim Santorum has only 273 to Romney's 657 delegates. Delegates to the party nominating convention are apportioned according to votes won in state primaries.
The Gingrich Group, a think tank founded by GOP presidential candidate Newt "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Delegates" Gingrich, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Wednesday in an Atlanta federal court. The organization apparently owes more thoughts than it has.
Ashton Kutcher has been cast to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming biographical movie. While there are no stunts in the film requiring a stunt double, producers are actively casting a brain double.
The Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a man who was strip searched twice after being arrested for an outstanding warrant - even though he provided documents proving the warrant had been quashed.
Senator John McCain, who defeated Mitt Romney in 2008 for the Republican nomination for president, slipped-up and almost endorsed President Barack Obama instead of Romney at a campaign appearance in Goose Creek Patch, SC, back in January.
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