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...When he found out about the Ashekian case this fall, Connelly felt compelled to get involved with a real-life mystery again. He has written about Ashekian on his blog and for CNN and has been doing interviews with foreign media in Hong Kong, trying to bring attention to her disappearance. "When all this tumbled together, I had to do something," Connelly says. "No one disappears in a vacuum. Someone knows something." With some noting that Jaycee Lee Dugard, an American girl abducted 18 years ago, reappeared in August and is now back with her family, no one has given...
...quickly." It was an instant online sensation, with more YouTube viewers than Grayson got votes in his home district. He offered up more bombast, calling a Federal Reserve Board staffer who is a former lobbyist a "K Street whore" and calling Republicans "foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals" on CNN. The liberal online hub the Huffington Post linked to the caveman remark, and more than 1,500 people wrote comments. "We need about 100 more Graysons in Congress," read one. Grayson later apologized to the Fed aide but repeatedly refused to apologize to the GOP. (You can watch those videos...
Grayson and Bachmann have found ways to use the controversies surrounding their outbursts to raise money and broaden their reach. Their devoted followers respond to appeals. Grayson posted his CNN caveman quip on a website he created, called Congressman?With?Guts.com attracting pledges of $220,000 from nearly 3,000 donors in about three weeks. (Almost 10,000 individuals gave Grayson more than $250,000 immediately after the "die quickly" speech.) Bachmann, meanwhile, took her fundraising appeal to social media and talk radio, asking her supporters to send a message to "Big Sister Pelosi and Big Brother Reid...
...Army is more worried about how the world is reacting to Hasan's actions than getting an explanation for them. "I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers," General George Casey, the Army's top officer, said on CNN on Sunday. "And I've asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that." At least one Muslim Army veteran agrees. "Muslims have been serving for generations in the United States armed forces, and we will continue to serve proudly and with honor," says Abdul-Rashid Abdullah, who served...
...This is my responsibility, this is my mistake. I didn't want this to be a distraction going forward." - After withdrawing his name to be Secretary of Homeland Security (CNN...