Attorney General Mukasey Collapses During Speech :UPDATE:

UPDATE: Attorney General Michael Mukasey is conscious and alert after collapse, according to the Department of Justice.
AG Mukasey has collapsed while on stage giving a speech at the Federalist Society meeting in Washington tonight. He was taken out on a stretcher and reports are he was slurring his words.
Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. 
 
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Bailout fever, catch it!

Is General Motors too big to fail? What about Ford and Chrysler?
The answer is yes and no. Yes, because the auto industry is the manufacturing backbone of the US economy and the workers, material suppliers, dealers and associated businesses that would be hurt if the Big Three closed their doors would act as an anchor [...]

Hillary Clinton to Accept Secretary of State Job

Breaking from Guardian.co.uk:
 
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
Obama’s advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton’s foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure [...]

Jerry Brown: Keep Proposition 8 in effect for review

From the SacBee.com:

By Aurelio Rojas 
arojas@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Nov. 17, 2008

State Attorney General Jerry Brown today urged the California Supreme Court to review legal challenges to Proposition 8, but steered clear of taking a position on the gay marriage ban measure approved by voters.
In a written responses to three lawsuits seeking to overturn the initiative, Brown’s office [...]

Dallas Schools Issue Fake Social Security Numbers

Yep, you read the title right!  Dallas Independent School District has been issuing fake or already used social security cards so individuals that do not have citizenship can stay employed there.
By TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News 
thobbs@dallasnews.com
 
Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to [...]

Prop 8 Supporters Attack Elderly Woman

From FOXNews.com
An elderly woman who attended a gay rights protest carrying a cross to voice her support of the new California ban on gay marriage says she was attacked by demonstrators and now may press charges.
Palm Springs Police Department spokesman Sgt. Mitch Spike told FOXNews.com no arrests had been made as of Thursday evening and [...]

Prop. 8 Repercussions Hit Local Sacramento Theater

It amazes me that because some individuals in the Gay and Lesbian community are so outraged about the passing of Prop 8, that they attack individual people. They can destroy personal property and churches and get away with it.  
The blowback from last Tuesday’s passage of Prop. 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage in California, has [...]