Thursday, April 19, 2012
More Expected Agent Resignations - The Daily Beast - At least three Secret Service members are being shown the door over the Colombia scandal—and the Secret Service director said Thursday that more resignations are expected.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Alabama Digs a Deeper Hole - NYTimes.com - Editorial - A new legislative session has given Alabama lawmakers an opportunity to repeal the cruel, destructive and embarrassing immigration law they passed last year — the worst in the nation. It looks as if they’re blowing it. -- Alabama’s leaders seemed hardly bothered last year when civil-rights and immigrant advocates said H.B. 56 was a mistake. They maintain that today. “The essence of the law will not change,” Mr. Bentley said recently. The governor and his fellow Republicans have a colossal mess to clean up — one of their own making. They should learn from Mississippi, where the Legislature looked over at Alabama’s disgrace and this month allowed a similar bill to die.
Dick Clark dies at 82; he introduced America to rock 'n' roll - LATimes.com - The music impresario whose 'American Bandstand' put rock music in the mainstream was also known to millions as a New Year's Eve tradition.
Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent - NYTimes.com - A Secret Service agent preparing for President Obama’s arrival at an international summit meeting and a single mother from Colombia who makes a living as a high-priced escort faced off in a room at the Hotel Caribe a week ago over how much he owed her for the previous night’s intercourse. “I tell him, ‘Baby, my cash money,’ ” the woman said in her first public comments on a spat that would soon spiral into a full-blown scandal. The dispute was that he offered $30 for services she thought they had agreed were worth 25 times that, and it set off a tense early morning struggle in the hallway of the posh hotel involving the woman, another prostitute, Colombian police officers arguing on the women’s behalf and American federal agents who tried but failed to keep the matter — which has shaken the reputation of the Secret Service — from escalating.
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