Eric Shawn

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February 2, 2010 6:12 AM

N.T.S.B. Buffalo Plane Crash Hearing

One of our country's leading aviation accident lawyers told me he has a simple private rule for his family: No flying in propeller commuter planes in bad winter weather. That rule may seem rather extreme, considering all the thousands of turboprop commuter flights that safely complete their journeys each day, but listening to the National Transportation Safety Board ... read more


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February 1, 2010 3:40 AM

Toyota Fix Could Take Months

Toyota says it is moving quickly to address a potentially deadly problem: gas pedals that can get stuck. "We are doing everything we can -as fast as we can- to make things right," vowed Toyota's U.S. President, Jim Lentz.  He outlined the plan to ship replacement steel parts to dealers and start a crash course of training dealerships on how to repair the problem in the ... read more


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January 28, 2010 6:45 AM

Chris Cox: Nixon Grandson Running for Congress

Barely one week after Republican Scott Brown's upset victory in Massachusetts, seen by some as ending the political coattails of the Kennedy family, the grandson of the man defeated by John ... read more


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January 26, 2010 8:15 PM

“ACORN” FILMMAKER ARRESTED

James O’Keefe, the conservative activist filmmaker, made quite a name for himself for his shocking undercover video tapes of ACORN. The tapes, in which he and a friend posed as a pimp and a prostitute, sparked a firestorm against the community group, even threatening its federal funding. Now O’Keefe has spent a night behind bars, arrested in the aftermath of what ... read more


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January 21, 2010 1:58 PM

Al Qaeda In Your Backyard?

Would you want Khalid Sheikh Mohammed living in your backyard? How about the accused mastermind of 9/11 and his four alleged cohorts spending their time just yards from your back door? That, essentially, is what the residents of the New York City apartment building Chatham Towers face. Their 240 apartments are just yards from the Federal Courthouse in lower Manhattan ... read more


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January 19, 2010 8:18 PM

Who are Coakley and Brown?

They may be running against each other, but Martha Coakley and Scott Brown have some things in common. They both were raised in Massachusetts, attended colleges there…she Williams, he Tufts… and they both graduated from Boston law schools. But he made his public mark first, in a very unorthodox manner. Scott Brown was named Cosmopolitan Magazine’s ... read more


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November 25, 2009 10:28 AM

Protesting the 9/11 Trials

"D'amato = Nazi." "Muslims Vote Too." "Nosair: Family Man," read the handwritten signs held by the protestors. They were a crowd that ranged from thirty to about fifty everyday, and the object of their support was the defendant on trial in a ... read more


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November 17, 2009 11:29 AM

Another ACORN Tape

Finally we see an ACORN worker saying "ACORN doesn't do anything illegitimate." The seventh undercover tape from conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles departs from the familiar pattern. In the previous tapes, ACORN workers didn't bat an eye when the pair presented their story of being a pimp and prostitute looking for an ACORN housing loan to finance a ... read more


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November 2, 2009 1:39 PM

Absentee Ballot Abuse?

It is "very easy" to steal an election using absentee ballots, claims Jan Tyler, a former Denver Elections Commissioner who now runs the website National Election Reform Examiner. She said some people shoveling her driveway, for example, told her they knew that "six or seven absentee ballots were sent to dead people," and she fears the numbers across the country could be ... read more


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October 26, 2009 3:59 PM

Voter Fraud Probe Heats Up

The voter fraud investigation of allegedly forged absentee ballots in Troy, New York is gaining national attention. Bob Mirch, the Republican Majority Leader of the Rensselaer County legislature appeared on the Fox News Channel at 11:40 a.m. on Sunday, October 25th and said he met with the New York State police regarding the investigation.  The State Troopers are not ... read more