Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Megachurch Pastor Comes Out to Congregation
Jim Swilley, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch, has revealed to his congregation that he is gay. The 52-year-old married father of four said that the recent teen suicides prompted his admission. "There comes a point in your life where you say 'How much time do we have left in our lives?" Swilley said. "Are we going to be authentic or not?"
Posted by BillJohnson at 08:47 AM on November 15, 2010 | 318 COMMENTS
The United States must prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday. "If his admission is substantiated, the U.S.A. has the obligation to prosecute him," said Amnesty International Senior Director Claudio Cordone. "In the absence of a U.S. investigation, other states must step in and carry out such an investigation themselves."
Posted by Species8472 at 08:31 AM on November 12, 2010 | 281 COMMENTS
Supremes Refuse to Suspend DADT
The Supreme Court Friday rejected a gay rights group's request to temporarily suspend enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military. The justices' brief order allows the policy to remain in effect until the full appeals process is completed.
Posted by boaz at 08:48 AM on November 13, 2010 | 274 COMMENTS
Bush May Have Executed Innocent Man
A DNA test on a single hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man executed 10 years ago for a liquor-store murder -- an execution that went forward after then-Gov. George W. Bush's staff failed to tell him the condemned man was asking for genetic analysis of the strand. The hair, the only piece of physical evidence linking Claude Jones to the crime scene, did not belong to Jones, the DNA analysis has found.
Posted by jackass at 07:54 PM on November 13, 2010 | 195 COMMENTS
Freshman Repub: Where's My Health Care?
At an orientation session Monday, a conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-"Obamacare" platform demanded to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Andy Harris (R-Md.) was informed that federal law mandates his government-subsidized health care policy takes effect 28 days after his Jan. 3 swearing-in. "He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care," said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange.
Posted by nogov4me at 08:48 AM on November 16, 2010 | 167 COMMENTS
A group of would-be suicide bombers tried to storm a major NATO base outside Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday but were repelled before they could enter, officials said. The attack after dawn sparked a gunbattle that lasted two hours and involved NATO helicopters firing from overhead.
Posted by truthhurts at 08:40 AM on November 15, 2010 | 159 COMMENTS
Rahm: I Did Not Seek Bipartisanship
A new book claims that contrary to widespread belief, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was not an advocate of bipartisanship. On issues such as health reform, he thought it would take too much time. "The lesson about time as a commodity is not mine, it's Lyndon Johnson's. You got X amount of time; you gotta use it," Emanuel is quoted as saying in Richard Wolffe's Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House.
Posted by Corky at 12:02 PM on November 18, 2010 | 158 COMMENTS
42 Die as Chinese Skyscraper Burns
A massive blaze at a high-rise apartment building in the downtown area of Shanghai, China, Monday killed at least 42 people and injured another 90. Work crews were installing energy-saving insulation when the fire occurred in the 28-story building.
Posted by leeatwater at 03:01 PM on November 15, 2010 | 157 COMMENTS
Mica Asks Airports to Drop TSA Screening
Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has written to the heads of 150 airports informing them they can opt out of Transportation Security Administration screening. "As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law," said Mica, who agreed with a reporter calling screening "security theater." He added, "It's a big Kabuki dance."
Posted by COMMONSENSE at 08:35 AM on November 17, 2010 | 153 COMMENTS
A&M Opposes Illegal Immigrant In-State Tuition
Texas A&M University's student government recently approved a bill that called for illegal immigrants attending the school to no longer be eligible for in-state tuition rates. Since 2001, illegal immigrants in Texas have qualified for discounted in-state tuition. About 300 of Texas A&M's 49,000 students are illegal immigrants.
Posted by Jak_Se_Mao at 01:15 PM on November 17, 2010 | 130 COMMENTS
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