This is my inaugural Political Roundup. I’ll try to do daily analysis of stories of political/public interest. I have no writers, this is just some interesting stuff I found.
Testing results from Duke University show that there are dangerous levels of methane gas in the water of a Texas community, despite the fact that the driller tested it and said everything was fine. Why would the drilling company lie?
In Florida, a verbal argument over the use of a cellphone during a movie ultimately resulted in the shooting death of the “no cellphone policy” breaker and the collateral injury of another person. Stand your ground and take chatty Cathys in movies down — the Florida motto.
Dennis Rodman, the unofficial American Ambassador to North Korea, apologized for not being able to help an American political refugee while he was visiting his buddy, Kim Jong Un. Remember when Rodman was just a mediocre basketball player and not a terrible representative of our country to world-lamented despots?
Chris Christie is under a Federal Investigation regarding advertising post Super-Storm Sandy that may have misappropriated Federal money. This, in the wake of #BridgeGhazi, Christie is looking like even less of a candidate for President than he already did.
Octo-Mom is charged with committing Welfare Fraud. Who saw that one coming? Everyone.
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