Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other websites are staging a blackout today and restricting access to some of their content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa), two laws before Congress that would greatly curtail Internet freedoms. "There are better ways to address piracy than to ask US companies to censor the internet," Google said in a blog post.
Posted by salamandagator at 09:52 AM on January 18, 2012 | 324 COMMENTS
Final 4 Debate in South Carolina
Arguing that momentum was on his side after a delayed announcement of victory in Iowa, Rick Santorum sought to weaken rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich with a series of direct attacks in the last South Carolina debate ahead of the state's primary on Saturday, while Ron Paul at times was so overlooked by the CNN moderator that the crowd demanded he get time to speak.
Posted by RexZeitgeist at 10:37 PM on January 19, 2012 | 281 COMMENTS
Karen Santorum Dated Abortion Doctor
Before she married Rick Santorum, Karen Santorum had a six-year relationship in her twenties with a doctor who started a Philadelphia abortion clinic, the Daily Beast reports. Though Santorum and his wife oppose abortion today even in cases of rape or incest, "Karen had no problems with what I did for a living," said Dr. Tom Allen, 92. "We never really discussed it." He had known her family since delivering her as a baby. They began seeing each other when she was a 22-year-old nursing student at Duquesne University.
Posted by MaryTylerWhore at 10:12 AM on January 17, 2012 | 247 COMMENTS
Ex-Wife: Newt Wanted Open Marriage
Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as president, his second ex-wife Marianne Gingrich told ABC News in an interview that will air Thursday night on Nightline. In her first TV interview since the couple's 1999 divorce, Marianne Gingrich said that when Newt admitted he was having a six-year affair with his Congressional aide (and current wife) Callista, he asked if he could continue the arrangement. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused," she said. "I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do.'"
Posted by MURPHY at 11:55 AM on January 19, 2012 | 241 COMMENTS
Romney No. 1 Target at S.C. Debate
Five days before the South Carolina primary, the five remaining Republican hopefuls tried at Monday's presidential debate to woo voters, and four sought to shake Mitt Romney from his perch atop the field. Romney was challenged by several rivals over his record at Bain Capital. "Some of the businesses we invested in weren't successful and lost jobs," he said. "We invested in well over 100 different businesses."
Posted by MURPHY at 08:54 AM on January 17, 2012 | 212 COMMENTS
South Carolina Boos Golden Rule
The crowd at the GOP debate in South Carolina Monday booed Ron Paul heartily when he made the following comment during a discussion of foreign policy: "If another country does to us what we do to others, we aren't going to like it very much. So I would say maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy."
Posted by adammm at 08:32 PM on January 17, 2012 | 169 COMMENTS
Dorri Olds: I guided the mouse toward his photo, and the little pointed hand hovered over his face. Fear and anger swelled up but curiosity won out and I clicked "Add Friend." He accepted within minutes. Stunned, I wondered if he had forgotten raping me, or if he thought I had. ... I clicked back to my rapist's wall for a link to his wife's profile and sent her a friend request. I decided that my revenge would be to blow up his marriage.
Posted by rcade at 04:47 PM on January 14, 2012 | 151 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 14, 2012 | 124 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 13, 2012 | 118 COMMENTS
The nation pauses Monday to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday that has also become a national day of service. "What he did was hold a banner of freedom and equality that actually transformed this nation," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. President Barack Obama will mark the holiday with a service project at the Browne Education Campus in Washington.
Posted by rcade at 10:41 AM on January 16, 2012 | 116 COMMENTS
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