Tiger Woods' Kindergarten Teacher: 'He's a Liar'

LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods' kindergarten teacher held a news conference Friday with her attorney Gloria Allred to speak out against the golfer's quotes regarding an alleged violent racial attack he suffered in kindergarten.

Maureen Decker, who was Woods' teacher at Cerritos Elementary School in 1981, said the golfer was lying about the attack.

At issue is an interview Tiger Woods gave for a 2005 book written by Charles Barkley, in which the golfer says:

"I became aware of my racial identity on my first day of school, on my first day of kindergarten. A group of sixth-graders tied me to a tree, spray-painted [the n-word] on me, and threw rocks at me. That was my first day of school. I used to live across the street from school and kind of down the way a little bit. The teacher said, "Okay, just go home." So I had to outrun all these kids going home, which I was able to do. It was certainly an eye-opening experience, you know, being five years old. We were the only minority family in all of Cypress, California."

Decker says she wants an apology wants a personal apology, saying, "I am asking Tiger for a private and public apology to put my mind at ease and set the record straight…"

Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island

First, before you watch this short but remarkable video, a little background on Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson.

He's from Georgia's Fourth District. A Washington, D.C. native, he's the fellow who took office in 2007 after knocking off former five-term Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney.

A former county judge, the 55-year-old is an attorney, a standard liberal Democrat, receiving 100 ratings from the ADA and ACLU.

In this House Armed Services Committee hearing last Friday (no, it wasn't April Fool's Day), Johnson was questioning Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet, about the stationing of 5,000 additional U.S. Marines and their families on the western Pacific island of Guam, a 212-square-mile American territory that is 30 miles long and from four to 12 miles wide. 

Obama Proposes Opening Vast Offshore Areas to Drilling

President Obama today proposed allowing oil and gas drilling for the first time in large swaths of water off the East Coast, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and potentially off Alaska.

Angering environmentalists and pleasing industry groups, Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the expansion in drilling would balance the need to boost domestic energy production while protecting natural resources.

"The bottom line is this: Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy," Obama said…

Adoption gone awry lands couple on child abuse list

George and Bette McFetridge were living in a great big house in Las Vegas. Their son was grown and gone, with a family of his own. There were all those extra bedrooms…

And so the TV ads saying that Las Vegas dearly needed foster and adoptive parents lingered in their minds.

George, a deputy district attorney, and Bette, a nurse, didn’t feel they could handle a small child at this stage of their lives. But a teen – well, they could take in a teen for a few years, show her what it’s like to live in a real family,  and hopefully, give her a better shot at succeeding in life…

One Little Bar Tab Should Put Michael Steele at Risk

“We're taking you to the hottest nightclub in town.”

Those were the words told to Orange County’s Erik Brown by RNC staffers and in L.A., that’s one heavy-duty promise. On Grammy weekend, it’s an even taller order, one which led to the now-infamous night at Voyeur in February, 2009 which was first reported on by the Daily Caller yesterday.