Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Shepard’
LiveBlog for Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• The Senate has long been seen as opposing the public health care option in health care reform, but now senior Senate Dems and White House officials are strongly considering including such a measure, but would permit individual states to drop out of the system.
• The White House yesterday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other GOP-ers that President Obama’s Afghanistan decision is taking too long. “What Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
• Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved yesterday and sent to President Obama. The measure is named for Matthew Shepard. Many GOP-ers voted against the bill, calling it “controversial.”
• Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died at a hospice in the Bronx. He was 83.
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Matthew Shepard, Robert Gibbs, Soupy Sales
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LiveBlog for Friday, May 1, 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009
• Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the torture memo debate.
• Frances Callier & Angela V. Shelton (Frangela) join us in studio for another edition of “Fridays with Frangela!!!”
• Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring after 18 years on the nation’s highest court. Souter will leave after the current court term recesses in June. Souter, 69, was tapped for the court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 but disappointed many conservatives when he turned out to be a moderate with an independent streak.
• A government official who traveled to Mexico City to support the delegation accompanying President Obama later came down with flu-like symptoms. Testing is underway to determine if the Energy Department staffer contracted the swine flu virus.
• After months of living on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy yesterday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.
• Judy Shepard doesn’t think Rep. Virginia Fox (R-NC) was sincere when she apologized for calling the 1998 murder of Shepard’s son, Matthew, “a hoax.” Fox made the comments Wednesday when she was debating against passage of the Hate Crimes Bill.
Tags: Angela V. Shelton, Barack Obama, Chrysler, David Souter, Fiat, Frances Callier, Frangela, George H.W. Bush, Judy Shepard, Lawrence Korb, Matthew Shepard, Virginia Fox
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