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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Week-ends (06/08/13)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Becky Gerritson
Lynette Hales ... MORE
Patrick Watson
Unidentified Idaho mom
Roy Costner IV
Travon Avery
Matt Birk
Mother swan
Pui
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Kathleen Sebelius ... UPDATE
The Calgary Board of Education
Maryland school
Disabled tour guides and the people who hire them
Ana Navarro
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"It's not a recovery. It's not even normal growth. It's bad."
UCLA economist Edward Leamer
“Please, suspend the rules until we look at this policy."
Rep. Lou Barletta, a Pennsylvania Republican, asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius during a House hearing Tuesday on behalf of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old girl who needs a lung transplant. She can’t qualify for an adult lung transplant until the age of 12, according to federal regulations, but Sebelius has the authority to waive that rule on her behalf. The pediatric lungs for which she currently qualifies aren’t available.
“I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies."
Sebelius responding to Barletta.
"I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it. It simply just does not happen at an agency level like that without political advisers likely in the West Wing certainly connected to the president’s ongoing campaign organization that didn’t know about it."
ABC News Political Analyst Trey Hardin
“Their paid liar, their spokesperson, he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this a local rogue. The reason that Lois Lerner tried to take the fifth [amendment] is not because there’s a rogue in Cincinnati. It’s because this is a problem that was coordinated, in all likelihood, right out of Washington headquarters.”
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa calling White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a paid liar
"On June 22, 2009, IRS Agent Richards sent us additional written requests, as follows: 'Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3). Organizations exempt under 501(c)(3) may present opinions with scientific or medical facts. Please explain in detail the activities at the prayer meetings. Also, please provide the percentage of time your organization spends on prayer groups as compared with the other activities of the organization. Please explain in detail the signs that are being held up outside of Planned Parenthood and explain how they are considered educational.'"
President of the Coalition for Life of Iowa Susan Martinek described how the IRS essentially tried to censor her group’s peaceful protest of Planned Parenthood.
"I am not here today as a serf or a vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I am a born free, American woman, wife, mother and citizen and I’m telling my government that you have forgotten your place. It is not your responsibility to look out for my well being or monitor my speech. It is not your right to assert an agenda. The posts you occupy exist to preserve American liberty. You have sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered. The abuses I will discuss today occurred on your watch. It is your responsibility to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Using these agencies as weapons against citizens is scary and it feels like tyranny."
Wetumpka Alabama Tea Party President Becky Gerritson testifying on Capitol Hill about the IRS scandal. She said she nearly gave up her application due to fears the IRS would target her volunteers and their families.
"President Obama says he’s renewing his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay? How about closing the IRS? Why don’t we do that?"
Jay Leno
“Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Welcome to the Summer of Belated Epiphanies. Media lapdogs are finally, finally arriving at the conclusion that maybe this isn't the most transparent administration in world history, after all.”
Michelle Malkin
"It isn't about the administration, and it should not be about the administration of the state nor federal level when it comes to Obamacare. But in fact it is. And why is that? I have talked to so many members in the House and Senate and you know what it comes down to? Are you ready for this? It is not about how many federal dollars we can receive. You ready? You want to know what it's about? It's about race. Now nobody wants to talk about that. It's about the race of this African-American president. ... It comes down to the race of the president of the U.S. which causes people to disconnect and step away from the substance of the bill."
The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, on why people oppose Obamacare.
“This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. Once our grandparents were very careful not to throw away any leftover food. Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times we are no longer able to give a just value. Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of the poor and the hungry.”
Pope Francis
“Social media is the new kind of Ku Klux Klan white hood; it allows you to be anonymous and say the things you would never say to a person to their face.”
Lawyer, pundit Star Jones
“I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control. America’s cowboy days are over."
96-year old actor Kirk Douglas
“One wonders when the Walt Disney Company will …present its first-ever queer character. While there are a number of theories on the queer sexuality of various Disney icons, the animation giant has never featured an openly gay character in any of its multimillion dollar films or cartoons, let alone present a (genuine) same-sex kiss. When Disney movies do allude to queer sexuality, including same-sex romance, this is usually in the context of a joke — a comical accident that leaves all parties disgusted and mortified.”
Renee Davidson of Salon.com
"I don't know why we would go after any element of a free press, even if we don't like them.”
Republican Senate President Mike Ellis after the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted early Wednesday to force the Center for Investigative Journalism off the UW-Madison campus. The state budget amendment would also prohibit UW employees from doing any work related to the news center.
"Imagine how we would have reacted if Jim Doyle and a Democrat legislature had passed legislation targeting conservative talk radio or any of the independent new media watchdog groups that have arisen in recent years.”
WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes on the ouster of the Center for Investigative Journalism.
"We don't make our decisions based on what talk radio may say.”
Joint Finance Committee co-chair John Nygren (R-Marinette) responding to Sykes’ criticism.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
US is secretly collecting records of Verizon phone calls.
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
A year ago, Wisconsin's governor made history.
About that Limbaugh boycott...
Obama and D-Day.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Will MLB suspend Ryan Braun and 19 others?
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
Cleansing reduction.
Meet your digital doppelganger.
That's it for Week-ends.
We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
Week-ends (06/01/13)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Gregory Fulton
Kevin Brennan
Henry Pignataro
Once again, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett
Ann Curtis
Boston diners
Anthony Cardenas
Paul McCartney
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
NYC Health Dept.
Kyle Dube
Those behind the hoax
Adam Levine
Leonard Burdek
Christopher Swindell
Paul Richmond and the Huffington Post
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"Well, let's see. Obama promised to get the economy moving, greatly improve our health care system and reduce its costs, give us the most transparent government, and usher in a new era of bipartisanship and racial harmony. Some 4 1/2 years into Obama's presidency, his economy is still as lethargic as a basset hound, and we're seeing disastrous developments on Obamacare. A smorgasbord of major scandals is unfolding, and we've got record levels of partisan angst and heightened racial tensions stoked by this administration."
David Limbaugh
"I see it as the arrogance of big government.”
WI Congressman Paul Ryan on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Ryan said Congress is going to do its job on oversight and there's no need to appoint a special prosecutor who will come back "two years later after spending $20 million with some kind of conclusion."
"We have truly entered the world of 'Alice in Wonderland' when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwide television for not paying more. Apple CEO Tim Cook was denounced for contributing to 'a worrisome federal deficit,' according to Senator Carl Levin -- one of the big-spending liberals in Congress who has had a lot more to do with creating that deficit than any private citizen has."
Thomas Sowell
"You can put your friendship where the sun don't shine.”
Milwaukee County Board Supervisor Mark Borkowski in a private conversation with Board Chair Mirina Dmitrijevic. Dmitrijevic removed Borkowski as chair of a committee this week after Borkowksi and a few other supervisors called for Dmitrijevic to step down or be removed as Board Chair. During their private conversation, the Journal Sentinel reported that Dmitrijevic suggested “moving on and patching things up.”
"I don't know of a governor anywhere in the country who succeeded in turning his state's economy around by actively facilitating the decline of his biggest city. This isn't like, bad things are happening in Milwaukee and I can't stop it. This is, can I put another stick in the eye of Milwaukee on another issue?
"I would prefer not to think the Legislature hates us because we live in Milwaukee. I would prefer to not think it was a kind of prejudice against urban challenges and issues.”
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn claiming Governor Walker and Republican legislators are hurting the city of Milwaukee.
"He is a friend to the taxpayers of Milwaukee and is focused on improving the quality of life for the people of the city. The way to encourage people to move to Milwaukee is not by building a fence around it, but helping the city to build itself into the powerhouse it can be."
Walker spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster responding to Chief Flynn.
“Pay attention to Senator Cruz because he is the unsmiling contemptuous face of the wild, nasty hard right fringe of a party that once competed with the Democrats to be the country’s governing party. All Cruz wants to do is prove that self-government is evil or impossible, or whatever else will justify his existence as a hard right political bomb thrower.”
Chris Matthews
"Liberal media just aren't built to be sustainable through any political environment the way conservative media are. Look at Fox News, which continues to lead its competitors in the ratings, and probably always will. The reason is that there is a symbiosis between the network's perspective and its viewers' predilections. If you watch Fox (or listen to conservative talk radio, for that matter) you'll hear each and every day that the grand battle is going on right now, no matter what may actually be happening. You thought the election was the critical moment, my friend? Nay. The crisis has only grown since then. The fate of everything you hold dear is about to be decided. The crisis is at hand. Catastrophe is upon us if we don't stop the liberals. Thus it is today, just as it was yesterday, and just as it will be tomorrow. Every liberal proposal is the End of Freedom, every liberal politician the most terrifying villain America has ever seen."
Paul Waldman, author of "Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success."
"She is totally liberated, and God bless her."
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his mom saying he shouldn’t run for president.
"I've known him for years and always knew something was wrong with him.”
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulani dissing former Congressman Anthony Weiner who is running for NYC mayor.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Who's tracking your children?
War Memorials fall into disrepair.
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Furloughed federal workers can receive unemployment.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Michelle Bachmann isn't running for re-election.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
They see Hitler.
Of course, it had to be in Madison.
That's it for Week-ends.
We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
Week-ends (05/25/13)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett
Rhonda Crosswhite ... MORE
Oklahoma tornado survivor
More Oklahoma heroes
Chefs with issues
Jerry Woods
The town of Temecula
Tom Sheehan
Doctors in Ohio
Mary Blakely
Eesha Khare
Sabrina Brady
Nina Agdal
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat
Richard DeCoatsworth
Lizz Winstead
Scott Simon
Howard Dean
New York state legislators
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
”Will we be back? Absolutely. Oklahoma has gone through this a couple times, and we’re resilient, strong, courageous people. You know, you probably remember the [Oklahoma City bombing in 1995], which I was in office back then [as lieutenant governor], we went through a tremendous tragedy and loss of life at that time. Oklahoma City has rebounded. It has rebuilt. Oklahoma people are very strong, and they will make it through this, but we’re going to need a lot of prayer and a lot of support to get back on our feet.”
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said that her state will rebuild, and she asked for prayers to aid the rescue and recovery from a devastating tornado.
"When it comes to yesterday's tragedy (tornado in Moore, Oklahoma), don't point to God. The problem is us. Climate scientists have been predicting for some time that human-caused global climate change would lead to a greater frequency of more powerful storms of all kinds. We've seen that with an increased frequency of more powerful hurricanes, stronger snow and rainstorms, and resulting '100-year' floods that happen now every few years.
"If Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy and the Moore tornado aren’t enough to get this country moving on the greatest threat to the environment and to humanity faced by the modern world, than you have to wonder what will.
"I'm not optimistic. Kids and teachers get slaughtered in a gun massacre in Connecticut, and this country does precisely nothing. Now there's carnage at a school in Oklahoma, and my bet is it will inspire no action on climate change.
"If there was such a thing as an act of God, I don't think she'd want the gunning down of innocent kids and teachers, and I don't think she'd spawn a killer tornado. I think she'd want us to change."
Dave Cieslewicz, liberal mayor of Madison.
“Members of this committee have accused me of providing false information when I responded to questions about the IRS processing of applications for tax exemption. I have not done anything wrong, I have not broken any laws, I have not violated any IRS rules and regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee.
“And while I would very much like to answer the committee's questions today, I've been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing. After very careful consideration, I have decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today.
“Because I'm asserting my right not to testify, I know that some people will assume that I have done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals, and that is the protection I am invoking today.”
Lois Lerner of the IRS, appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. She was later put on administrative leave, government speak for paid vacation.
"So far, voters don't seem to be abandoning President Barack Obama over controversies gripping the Beltway world. But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny. The aides either have forgotten or are unable to implement the basic lesson of scandal control in Washington: Get the full story out -- all of it -- as fast as you can before your critics accuse you of a cover-up or worse."
Howard Fineman, the Huffington Post
"A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
“Why am I alarmed? Because two 'scandals'--the IRS tax-exempt inquiries and the Department of Justice's tapping of reporters' phones--have become lynch parties. And the congressional investigation of Benghazi may become a scandal in itself."
Donna Brazile
"In one breath Brazile urges everyone to be civil and respectful. In the next she labels her opponents with one of the most racially incendiary metaphors in the American lexicon. And note that she is casting government officials who abused their power as lynching victims."
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal
"Democrats have been called-out at High Noon, and they have but two options. They can either join with Republicans to honestly investigate these matters, without malice or political motive, in order to uncover the truth; then take necessary actions, which may include removing high ranking officials (even Obama) from their positions – and ultimately claim credit for fixing the problem. Or, they can spin the facts, and obstruct congressional investigators at every turn, in an attempt to prevent the truth from being known. Truth or politics – that is the choice they face."
Former GA Congressman Bob Barr
"The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in discharging the duties of chief executive. Barack Obama revealed to us in recent days is something rare in our history: a spectator president, clueless about what is going on in his own household, who reacts to revelations like some stunned bystander…What we have here, it appears, is a government out of control and a president clueless about what is going on in that government. And that is the best case."
Pat Buchanan
“They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable. It’s part of a pattern of deception. They’ve released 100 emails, but there are thousands of documents that we still need to see. The truth gets colder as time goes on, so we need to stay vigilant.”
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, saying behind the scenes, House Republicans are frustrated by the White House’s evasiveness, and the calls for impeachment will likely increase.
President Obama has “built up an atmosphere of guerrilla warfare. This is the problem with this entire situation [with the AP], with the IRS, with Benghazi: you have all these situations — all these unprecedented scandals — yet the president knows nothing about it.”
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus
"There is an old saying in Washington: 'It's not the crime, it's the cover up' that does the damage…The interesting thing about these scandals is there is something for everyone to be concerned about. Benghazi attracts the attention of the national security group. The IRS gets noticed by conservative and good government groups. And, of course, the D0J getting private phone records of reporters gets under the skin of one of Obama's strongest support groups - reporters."
Rich Galen, a journalist who writes at Mullings.com.
“Frankly, I’m offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing. I’m offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating and badgering one of America’s greatest success stories. Tell me one of these politicians up here who doesn’t minimize their taxes. Tell me a chief financial officer that you would hire if he didn’t try to minimize your taxes legally. Tell me what Apple has done that is illegal.”
Sen. Rand Paul during Tuesday’s Senate subcommittee hearing on Apple’s offshore tax practices. Instead of grilling Apple CEO Tim Cook on the computer giant’s legal tax practices, Paul said, Congress should have pulled a giant mirror into the chamber and put itself on trial. The Kentucky Republican went even further, saying that Congress should apologize to Apple for creating the kind of tax code that “doesn’t compete with the rest of the world.”
“We will have him round every night. We will serve fried chicken.”
Golfer Sergio Garcia, joking that he would invite his American rival, Tiger Woods around for a meal. The Spaniard made the remark at the European Tour Player of the Year awards on Tuesday night. Appearing on stage with the rest of his Ryder Cup team-mates, he was asked in jest by the evening’s host, American Steve Sands, if he would be inviting Woods - with whom Garcia has had a long-running feud - for dinner at next month’s U.S. Open in Merion.
“The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate.”
Tiger Woods responding to Garcia.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
The London terror attack.
IRS went after 83-year old granny, a WWII vet hero.
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Race and voting.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
One-sided coverage of the gay Scout issue.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
Anthony Weiner pulls a boner.
No, no, don't do that!
9-1-1 call.
For $1,2000...
That's it for Week-ends.
We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
Week-ends (05/18/13)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Cleveland officers
CURE
Melissa Torrez
Emma Paulson
Anthony Espada
Maureen Renaghan
Florence Powell
Stephen Nunez
Christopher Newbury
Vince Young
Robert Kinney
Alayna Adams' dad
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Manhattan moms
Florida's Department of Transportation
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"Today, the people who find frequent fault with the eminently faultable record of Barack Obama aren’t presented as dissenting patriots; they don’t get the glowing Cindy Sheehan, Move On or Occupy Wall Street treatment; rather, they’re smeared as haters, bitter white men, racists, reactionaries, menacing, potential terrorists (darn that inconvenient fact that attacks, killings, and terror keep coming from crazies, lefties, and lovers of 'the religion of peace,' not from Tea Party members).
"But anyone who yells about the massive spending, surging national debt, about unconstitutional power grabs, job loss, sky high dependency on government, obscene programs in the heart of Mexico to promote food stamps to prospective immigrants, about gun running to Mexico that killed hundreds, about a war on traditional energy, or a Big Brother explosion of regulations of commerce, or billions in corrupt grants to corrupt cronies, a train wreck of a hijacking of health care, outrageous neglect of embassies in the hottest hot spots, cowardly neglect of attacks, transparently dishonest cover-ups of incompetence (incompetence is the only thing that’s been transparent in this administration) or, about…well, you get the idea…"
Shawn Mitchell, former state Senator in Colorado who has a private law practice in Denver.
"The Internal Revenue Service recognizes that we should have done a better job of handling the influx of applications by advocacy groups. Mistakes were made, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation. We are — and will continue to be — dedicated to reviewing all applications for tax-exempt status in an impartial manner.”
Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. He later apologized and was fired.
“It is almost inconceivable to imagine that top officials at the IRS knew conservative groups were being targeted but chose to willfully mislead the committee’s investigation into this practice. The blatant disregard for which the agency has treated Congress and the American taxpayer raises serious concerns about leadership at the IRS.”
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)
“The question is, how stupid do they think we are? Just imagine if the George W. Bush administration had IRS underlings, out in Cincinnati of course, saying, ‘We're going to target groups with the word 'progressive' in their title,’ we would have all hell breaking loose.”
Conservative columnist George Will
“People are pretty mad — mad that government has not taken what we do seriously. When the news broke yesterday…people were outraged and disgusted. No one was yelling and screaming, but it was like, Are you kidding me!?”
An unidentified Associated Press reporter. Reporters across The Associated Press were outraged over the Justice Department’s sweeping seizure of staff phone records - and they say such an intrusion could chill their relationships with confidential sources.
"It's outrageous. It's totally inexcusable...the object of it is to intimidate people who talk to reporters. There's no excuse for it whatsoever."
Liberal reporter Carl Bernstein on the AP scandal. Bernstein was one of the two reporters who broke the Watergate story.
"The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio's plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation's budget deficits over the next 50 years. Currently, the average illegal alien gets about $24,721 in taxpayer-funded benefits and pays about $10,334 in taxes. After full legalization, they will be eligible for a whole new panoply of government benefits such as direct welfare payments, Obamacare, Social Security and Medicare. Heritage concludes that the total government benefits to these former illegal aliens will then rise to about $43,900 per household, while the taxes paid by them will increase only modestly to around $16,000. Rubio says Heritage's report is all wrong because it fails to use 'dynamic scoring.'
"The sentence ends there. It's like when Obama responds to questions about Benghazi by saying it's a 'political circus,' or liberals say their position on abortion is that 'it's a complex issue.' What isn't political? What isn't complex? Those aren't answers; they're deflections."
Ann Coulter
"I think we are heading for a worse economic crisis than we had in 2007. You're going to have a collapse in the dollar...a huge spike in interest rates... and our whole economy, which is built on the foundation of cheap money, is going to topple when you pull the rug out from under it. The crisis is imminent. I don't think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And stock market investors are oblivious to the problems. We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit; look at the debt to GDP ratio, the unfunded liabilities. If we were in the Eurozone, they would kick us out."
Peter Schiff, best-selling author and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital
“It's going to be very interesting to see if the Drive-Bys will cover the verdict, given how studiously they have Gosnelled the actual case. Do you know what to Gosnell is? What is to Gosnell? What does that mean? Gosnelled is the New Media term meaning ignored or aborted with prejudice.”
Rush Limbaugh
"He said if we have chocolate bullets, nobody would get hurt and nobody would be sad. I'm going to start crying again because he was so insightful."
Barbara Rankin, the reading specialist at the Downtown Montessori Academy in Milwaukee, describing a letter written to Vice President Joe Biden by 7-year old Myles Nelson, a second-grader at the school.
“Dear Myles, I'm sorry it took me so very long to respond to your letter. I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier. People love chocolate. You are a good boy, Joe Biden."
The vice president’s response to Myles.
"Have you ever been recognized by an association of writers as Journalist of the Year? If you ever are, and I read about it, I will congratulate you, not try to poop on your recognition."
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke in a response to the Journal Sentinel’s Dan Bice. Bice wrote a column critical of a group that named ClarkeThe Sheriff of the Year for 2013.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS commissioner who once oversaw the division that processes tax-exempt organizations, now heads the IRS office responsible for overseeing the new tax laws in ObamaCare.
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Black Christian leaders call for abortion investigation.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
OJ wants out of jail.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
This ban doesn't hold up.
That's it for Week-ends.
We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
