The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) just reported that United States “proven reserves” of crude oil in 2012 jumped by 15.4% to 29.2 billion barrels. This new official level is only about 13% of the declared reserves of Saudi Arabia.
Russia is probing NATO defenses in Eastern Europe as part of its strategy to recover the satellite countries it lost in the break-up of the Soviet Union. Although NATO was designed around European members shouldering most of their own security,
Barack Obama may be the Republicans’ best friend when it comes to educating 18-33-year olds of the Millennial Generation about the downside of voting for the Democrats’ economic policies. According to a report from the Pew Research Center for Social
Russia’s military annexation of the Crimea and buildup of land and air forces on its borders with Eastern Europe is raising anxiety that Russia will militarily intervene in other former “republics” to rebuild the Soviet Union. Ukrainian tanks and special-forces
The rain didn’t come to California last year, but it is was raining “Benjamins” on Capitol Hill as the Central Valley’s Paramount Farm interests contributed $457,000 to Congress, and the Westlands Water District spent $1,600,000 on lobbying and outreach last year.
Bill Gross must have never heard of the political saying “when you are digging a hole for yourself, stop digging.” After being dragged through the mud by the financial press over the messy exit of his Co-Chief Investment Officer, and
A new California Field Poll released Thursday reveals that in the aftermath of the corruption scandals involving three State Senators, the opinions of voters are turning against the performance of State Legislature incumbents. Democrats currently hold 55 seats and Republicans 25, a
In the continuing fallout following General Motors’ admission that for years it failed to recall of 2.6 million vehicles with known life threatening risks, Toyota Motor Corp on April 9th announced it would recall 6.39 million faulty vehicles in the company’s
In what can only be described as a national security and tech industry disaster for the United States, the Court of the European Union struck down the “2006 Directive” that allowed the EU and the United States to share in
According to the latest Rasmussen poll published on April 8th, only 23% of likely American voters now rate Obamacare as a success and 62% believe Republicans will repeal the law. The latest polling results are a very bad omen for
Just two days after April Fool’s Day, the California State Assembly passed House Resolution 29, denouncing outsourcing of government services to private contractors, and pledging oppose all future “outsourcing of public services and assets.” Despite staunch opposition from the League
Under the Obama Administration, at least 22 veterans commit suicide every day. Active duty suicides in the military jumped by 30% since 2008, with one soldier, sailor, or marine expected to commit suicide in the next 25 hours. Ex-military suicides also
Despite having America’s highest proven reserves at over 15 billion barrels of oil, Californians now pay $.72 per gallon more per gallon of gasoline than Texans. Consequently, each driver in California pays a penalty of $326 per year more for
Phillips 66, formerly a division of energy giant ConocoPhillips, recently filed a project proposal to bring mile-long crude oil trains from Canada and North Dakota to its refinery in California’s San Luis Obispo County. If approved, the project would mean up to
Residents of the Syrian town of Taibet al-Emam in western Syria revolted against the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra militant group occupying their community on April 5th, killing and wounding more than 50 rebels, according to SANA radio. It seems that
About 2,750 Brazilian soldiers and military police on April 5th invaded a 4 square miles complex of Rio de Janeiro slums with armored personnel, according to the Rio Times newspaper. More than 1,000 police officers and marines had been trying
The common denominator between my Breitbart published story, “Earth Quake Storm Rattles California,” about the 100 quakes of up to 5.3 magnitude that rolled through Southern California on Saturday, the 8.1 magnitude monster that pummeled Chile Tuesday, and the 5.8
With the Veterans Administration (VA) about to face hearings on Capitol Hill regarding preventable deaths in their system, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) released a report exposing the VA ha secretly paid $200 million to settle nearly 1,000 wrongful
For the third time in five years, armed military personnel have plotted attacks on unarmed soldiers at the Fort Hood military post in Killeen, Texas. On April 2nd, a gunman opened fire, killing three people and wounding as many as
The stock price of UnitedHealth Group Inc., America’s largest health care company, is up +263% since Obamacare was signed into law just over four years ago on March 23, 2010. Over the ten year period prior to Obamacare, UnitedHealth stock
As President Obama was reading his teleprompter on March 20th to announce sanctions against Russia, Syrian rebel forces, led by al Qaeda-linked Islamic Front and Jabhat al-Nusra, launched a surprise offensive in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border. The offensive,
Margaret Thatcher famously commented on the European welfare state spending, “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” to spend. European elites are panicking over a report in the Financial Times of London titled
Ronald Reagan famously once said: “We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money.” With Democrats looking like they may lose
Stocks that comprise the volatile NASDAQ Composite Stock Index suffered their worst weekly losses in 15 months with a 2.8% plunge, as Wall Street continued to reel from Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen’s March 19th warning that the Fed intended to
California suffered an “earthquake storm” on Friday night. At 8:03 PM Southern California suffered a small 3.6 earthquake on the Richter scale; followed at 9:14 PM with what the U.S. Geological Survey called a “moderate” 5.1 quake that lasted for
