Floyd Mayweather Jr. took to the Internet again on Friday, this time to apologize for a profanity-filled racist rant against Manny Pacquiao that he recorded on uStream.com Thursday. Mayweather continued to mispronounce Pacquiao’s surname, repeatedly referring to him as “Pooch-ee-ow.” But a day after making racist and homophobic [Continue]
CONCORD, N.H. — A Democratic candidate for the New Hampshire House has apologized for posting a death wish for Sarah Palin on Facebook. Keith Halloran of Rindge made the comment in response to a Republican lawmaker’s post Tuesday about the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. When the lawmaker expressed disappointment [Continue]
In a significant reversal, Target Corp. is apologizing for a political donation to a conservative group that angered some employees and sparked talk of a customer boycott. View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — CBS President Nina Tassler has apologized for the network's low rating on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) recent "Network Responsibility Index," which ranked broadcast and cable networks by the percentage of "LGBT-inclusive" hours in their original [Continue]
This morning, The Daily Caller posted a story about an email message radio publicist Sarah Spitz reportedly sent to Journolist, a now-defunct listserv. "If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond?" The Daily Caller article began. "As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would [Continue]
The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday for an interview in which he said he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. An article out this week in Rolling Stone magazine depicts Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a lone wolf on the outs with [Continue]
WASHINGTON – Who's sorry now? Rep. Joe Barton, that's who. The Texas Republican, the House's top recipient of oil industry campaign contributions since 1990, apologized Thursday for apologizing to the chief of the British company that befouled the Gulf of Mexico with a massive oil spill. His double mea culpa plus a retraction, [Continue]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk accepted responsibility Thursday for a series of misstatements about his Navy Reserve career, including that he served in the Gulf War, that he once commanded the Pentagon war room and that he came under fire while flying intelligence missions over Iraq. Kirk blamed several of the inaccuracies on his [Continue]
HARTFORD — Attorney General Richard Blumenthal now says he is sorry that he overstated his military record during the Vietnam War in some past speeches. The formerly unapologetic Blumenthal offered his apologies on Sunday and Monday — a that step that he refused to take during a nationally televised news conference last Wednesday or [Continue]
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic candidate for the Senate, has apologized for exaggerating his history of military service. "At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,'' Blumenthal said in a [Continue]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A teacher union's memo hinting that New Jersey's governor should die has escalated a war of words in a state already squabbling about public schools and how much they cost. View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Local Leader Defends Pope Benedict XVI Milwaukee's archbishop admits mistakes were made in the handling of an abusive priest years ago — not in Rome— but here in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Documents released last week show Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope, decided not to remove Father Lawrence Murphy even after he [Continue]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A retired American general has apologized for a remark to the U.S. Senate suggesting that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for the Srebrenica massacre by Serb soldiers in Bosnia, according to the Defense Ministry. The comment by retired Gen. John Sheehan during testimony opposing a proposal to allow [Continue]
NEW YORK (AP) — Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years. It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and [Continue]
The Obama State Department apologized to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for offending the dear tyrant with offensive language. The BBC reported: The US State Department has apologized for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland. Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the [Continue]
