— “Two women were hurt in an alcohol-fueled clash that involved dozens of people who had been watching a televised Ultimate Fighting Championship event at a North Port restaurant on Saturday night.” Yep, stuff pops off at Buffalo Wild Wings.— Ellenton’s Kenny Polski cranks out the barbecue sauce, and makes a name for himself.— On the latest episode of Clout 941, Ron Filipkowski comes out in favor of keeping “Unconditional Surrender” on the bayfront. Why? Not because he actually likes the statue.

President Barack Obama’s top auto adviser Steve Rattner is returning to private life now that General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC have emerged from bankruptcy faster than most experts thought possible. Rattner, a former Wall Street financier worth more than $180 million, is stepping down after nearly five months in Washington overseeing the restructurings of the two automakers. He will be succeeded by Ron Bloom, a former adviser to the United Steelworkers union who worked with the White House auto task force alongside Rattner counseling U.S.

July 14, 2009 The US budget deficit topped $US1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) for the first nine months of the fiscal year and broke a monthly record for June as the recession subtracted from revenue and the government spent to rejuvenate the economy. The shortfall for the fiscal year that began October 1 totaled $US1.1 trillion, the first time that the gap for the period surpassed $US1 trillion, Treasury figures showed. The excess of spending over revenue for June was $US94.3 billion, the first deficit for that month since 1991, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Obama Rewrites the Cold War… The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies. Liz Cheney | WSJ There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week. Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: “The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place.

By William Tate Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street leviathan that is heavily invested in the cap-and-trade carbon market scam, has admitted it has developed and used software that can manipulate such financial markets. The revelation came during proceedings in a legal case with enough plot twists to make even John Grisham proud; it was made, not by Goldman, but by an assistant U.S. Attorney.