The good news for Republicans who want to see Harry Reid defeated is that he just denied that illegal immigrants do construction work in Nevada, people are renouncing him on their deathbed, and here’s his percentage of the vote in the last fourteen polls: 43, 40, 40, 40, 37, 42, 38, 40, 40, 42, 41, [Continue]
"The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession," said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. "All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing." View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
IT’S FINE IF THE LAW BANS BOOKS BECAUSE GOVERNMENT WON’T REALLY ENFORCE IT View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
While the whole world was debating the American Academy of Pediatrics' position on "female genital cutting"—the AAP was against it before they were for it, and now, after an outcry, they're against it again—Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder have been raising the alarm about "medical research" currently being [Continue]
Teaching a child how to ride a bike always involves certain lessons. How to pedal, how to balance yourself, how to steer. We teach these things because they are common sense. But we also teach — stress, actually — the most important aspect of bike riding: how to stop. Why? Because it defies common sense [Continue]
Where Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein went wrong….. View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Editors' note: This piece is co-authored by Willie Soon and David R. LegatesWe’re often asked, "What really causes all these alarms about global warming disasters?" As scientists and policy analysts who’ve studied our ever-changing climate for a combined 65 years and attribute the changes primarily to natural forces, [Continue]
Good cartoon. If someone can post the picture here I'd appreciate it. (I don't know how to post the picture – but its worth sharing) View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Gov. Chris Christie: 'This is who I am' By ANDY BARR | 5/14/10 11:04 AM EDT New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday opened up on a reporter in a news conference who challenged the Republican’s tone, telling the reporter that he “must be the thinnest-skinned guy in America.” The reporter was inquiring about a [Continue]
Does anyone else have this problem ? I think I need a break. I thought this was going to be the year we took back congress and things were going to get better. I just don't feel the positive momentum anymore. Sometimes I fear our fate is sealed as a country. I pray something changes. [Continue]
Government Motors General Motors announced this week that it repaid its multibillion-dollar taxpayer-backed TARP loans. GM even bragged that it was able to “repay the taxpayers in full, with interest, ahead of schedule, because more customers are buying vehicles.” There was great fanfare, including expensive, around-the-clock GM TV [Continue]
In Defense of Goldman SachsBy Tom Granahan FOXBusiness Wednesday, April 21, 2010 **SNIP** Fraud? Really? The problem with all of this made-for-the-headlines chicanery is that it masks the true problems. For instance, also listed in the sales document that one assumes will be used as Exhibit A in the SEC’s case is a bevy of [Continue]
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview Sunday, when asked about the Tea Party protests, that the Obama administration is paying more attention to the deficit than the Bush administration did. President Bush ran up a $458.6 billion deficit during his last full year in office. Obama ran up a $1.4 [Continue]
Hey Bill, On the April 15th, 2010 broadcast of the O’Reilly Factor, you played a little too fast and loose with the truth when discussing the case of Lt. Col Terry Lakin. Lakin, whom we both recall refused orders to deploy to Afghanistan, cited lingering doubts over the constitutionality of Barack Obama’s presidency, and by [Continue]
VATICAN CITY (AFP) April 13, 2010 – Once again, the birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI in the Bavarian village of Marktl am Inn has been vandalized by an unknown person. A police spokesman today said that the markings were an "offensive content", in reference to the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Blue [Continue]
