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• Chick-fil-A supporters turn out in droves for 'Appreciation Day'
• Obama hammers Romney tax plan in Ohio
• Rubio bill would make Olympic prize money tax-exempt
• Congress won’t rescue postal service as it defaults on health care benefits
• Romney’s snoozy 'Mitt’s VP' iPhone app
• Peterson trial continues despite calls for mistrial
• Obama congratulates gold-winning women gymnasts
• 60 House bills to name post offices, zero to fix mail service
• Gore Vidal, immensely quotable writer, remembered on Twitter
• No more super PAC cash from Foster Friess?
• Woman lifts car off father, saves his life
• Jose Canseco hired as a paid columnist by Vice
• Video: John Goodman weighs in on Chick-fil-A...as Colonel Sanders
• RV camper crashes into backyard swimming pool
• Putin rolls back freedoms, ups efforts to intimidate opposition

Chick-fil-A supporters turn out in droves for 'Appreciation Day' Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:29 PM PDT After several weeks of protests and mayoral catcalls stemming from Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy's controversial public comments against same-sex marriage, supporters of the fast-food chain--and traditional marriage--turned out in droves on Wednesday, jamming many of Chick-fil-A's 1,600 U.S. stores. And protesters, for the most part, stayed away. In Englewood, Colo., an overcapacity lunch crowd spilled [...]

Obama hammers Romney tax plan in Ohio Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:46 AM PDT Stumping for votes in the pivotal battleground of Ohio, President Barack Obama hammered Mitt Romney's tax plan on Wednesday, highlighting a new study that said the Republican challenger's blueprint could leave poor and middle-class Americans paying more to the IRS to offset tax cuts for the wealthiest. "If Gov. Romney wants to keep his word [...]

Rubio bill would make Olympic prize money tax-exempt Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:54 PM PDT Florida Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill Wednesday that would exempt Americans competing in the Olympic Games from paying taxes on the financial spoils of their victory. Athletes are awarded a $25,000 honorarium for first place, $15,000 for second and $10,000 for third, but under Rubio's bill, the money would not be subject to taxes [...]

Congress won’t rescue postal service as it defaults on health care benefits Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT Congress is sitting idly by Wednesday as the U.S. Postal Service prepares to default on $5.5 billion in retiree health care payments. The postal service confirmed in a statement Monday that it would default on its payment to the U.S. Treasury due at midnight on Wednesday. It is also prepared to default on a $5.6 [...]

Romney’s snoozy 'Mitt’s VP' iPhone app Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:41 AM PDT Two mobile apps released this week offer insight into the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. "Mitt's VP" has some intelligent design behind it, but it ends up a riot of styles and is ultimately ungenerous in the extreme. At the same time, "Obama for America" is clean, Appley-looking and unconfusing. But what the two campaign apps really shed light on is what apps—anyone's app—ought to be in 2012.

Peterson trial continues despite calls for mistrial Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Drew Peterson's murder trial resumed today after the judge considered and then denied a defense request to declare a mistrial.

Obama congratulates gold-winning women gymnasts Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:18 AM PDT President Barack Obama telephoned the five members of Team USA's women gymnasts on Wednesday to congratulate them on winning the gold in London—and to express his astonishment at their gravity-defying exploits. "I told these young ladies, as I was congratulating them: 'How do you not bust your head every time you're on that little balance [...]

60 House bills to name post offices, zero to fix mail service Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:46 AM PDT At a point when the Postal Service is bleeding money, the 112th Congress has been sworn in, the House has introduced 60 bills to rename post offices.

Gore Vidal, immensely quotable writer, remembered on Twitter Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:16 AM PDT As news of Gore Vidal's death spread on Wednesday, the celebrated American writer's name began trending as fans took to Twitter to remember his immensely quotable—and tweetable—work.

No more super PAC cash from Foster Friess? Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:13 AM PDT Foster Friess, a Wyoming-based businessman who has donated more than $2.3 million to conservative outside groups this year, suggested Wednesday he may slow down his political giving. Politico's Ginger Gibson reports from an event where Friess spoke in Washington, D.C., that he plans "to be a lot more careful" about the money he sends to [...]

Woman lifts car off father, saves his life Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT Lauren Kornacki's quick thinking most likely saved her father's life when a car he was working on fell on him. With more than a ton-and-a-half a BMW 525i on top of her dad, Lauren's called on her strength and smarts. "I just lifted up kind of right here and just kind of threw it, shoved [...]

Jose Canseco hired as a paid columnist by Vice Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:58 AM PDT Vice, the irreverent, Brooklyn-based magazine-turned-multiplatform media brand, has hired Jose Canseco—former professional baseball player-turned-outspoken author and Twitter user—as a paid weekly columnist for its website. Canseco's column—"José Can Say So"—will be published every Monday, according to Vice. And in typical Vice fashion, Canseco's first dispatch has nothing to do with baseball: It's about gun control [...]

Video: John Goodman weighs in on Chick-fil-A...as Colonel Sanders Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT KFC Loves Gays with John Goodman from John Goodman Today is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, which some customers have organized to support the fast-food chain, whose chief executive publicly stated opposition to same-sex marriage. In this new video from Funny Or Die, actor John Goodman portrays KFC founder Colonel Sanders as he weighs in on the [...]

RV camper crashes into backyard swimming pool Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT A Brockton, Mass., man crashed his RV through a fence on Wednesday and into his neighbor's in-ground swimming pool. The unidentified 60-year-old man apparently suffered a health problem shortly before the 28-foot camper flew "through a metal fence, some bushes and logs" and into the pool, according to Boston's Fox 25. Aerial video showed the [...]

Putin rolls back freedoms, ups efforts to intimidate opposition Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:55 AM PDT Since Putin's inauguration, the Kremlin has pushed through several pieces of legislation and orchestrated an apparent attempt to systematically restrict and intimidate the opposition.

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