In Chicago, taxi Riders who vomit in a cab will have to pay a $50 fee, beginning on July 1, reports CBS News. Currently, cab drivers cannot ask passengers who vomit in their vehicles, usually after consuming too much alcohol,
After the 2012 election, conservatives in Congress will likely again be on the ascendency. And if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, conservatives will not have a veto threat hanging over their heads. But as a new generation of conservatives and
President Barack Obama last month “dined and dashed,” eating lunch at a restaurant and then promptly leaving without paying the bill. Obama ended up paying the bill by the close of business, but the New Hampshire town in which he
Katie Couric’s former producer who has worked in the mainstream media in New York and Washington for 26 years wrote a scathing blog post last week denouncing NBC News, writing he could not defend the organization anymore from accusations of
The Supreme Court will announce its much-anticipated decisions on Arizona’s immigration and Obamacare this week, but as the election plays out, liberals and the mainstream media will blame the Court’s campaign finance decisions. In particular, they will blame the “Citizens
Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner is a congenital optimist. But when he looks at photos of his grandchildren, he sees them potentially burdened with debt they will pay off due to the fiscal mismanagement of the country’s current crop of
Jeff Daniels, who stars as anchor Will McAvoy in HBO’s critically un-acclaimed “The Newsroom,” debuting Sunday night, agrees that “America’s not the greatest country in the world anymore.” Daniels and Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator, were on “Piers Morgan Tonight”
The European Union is on the brink of collapse, and a ruling by Europe’s highest court may accelerate this process. The Court of Justice of the European Union, according to the New York Times, “ruled that workers who happened to
Nothing galvanized and united conservatives more than President Barack Obama’s overreach on Obamacare. During the 2012 Republican presidential primary, Obamacare was an albatross around Mitt Romney’s neck and may still be, because many of Obamacare’s provisions — such as the
The late Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could provide video evidence that a “chorus” of Tea Party supporters who rallied on Capitol Hill in 2010 to protest Obamacare shouted the “N-word” and other obscenities at African-American
It seems the Obama administration saw the writing on the wall after the Obamacare oral arguments ended. According to a Politico report, the administration has spent “at least $2.7 billion since oral arguments in the case ended on March 28” on Obamacare,
At a press conference with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Thursday, President Barack Obama, again playing election year politics as he has done with immigration, accused Republicans of “playing chicken” with student loans and said, “It’s mind-boggling that we’ve
When President Barack Obama announced his administration would not deport illegal immigrants under 30 years of age who came to the country as children, he “bigfooted” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who had been working behind the scenes in Congress on
In 2010, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) tried to pass sweeping cap and trade legislation that dealt with climate change and failed. Now, Kerry’s throwing a fit. On Tuesday, Kerry, according to The Hill, said there is a “calculated campaign of
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker triumphed in his recall election primarily because the public sector reforms which he initiated worked. Now, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Walker is seeking to make higher education in Wisconsin more efficient and accessible with the
At the Heritage Foundation’s Bloggers Briefing on Tuesday, newly-minted Republican Artur Davis, who had been a Democrat from Alabama and one of President Barack Obama’s earliest supporters, mocked Obama for not delivering on his promises. Davis reiterated his belief that
Based on findings from an exhaustive and significant survey of Asian-Americans that Pew Research released yesterday, the mainstream media concluded that Asians are the fastest growing immigrant group, lean toward Democrats, and will help the left in perpetuity. Not so fast.
NBC News deceptively edited 911 tapes to make George Zimmerman seem like a racist, and now NBC Sports has come under fire for not airing the most salient, newsworthy, and damning part of the exchange between Bob Costas and former
When President Obama led efforts to topple and kill former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, many predicted that Libya would fall into a state of unrest. And, according to CNN, “the weapons used by the rebels who overthrew” Gaddafi are “now
Yesterday, prominent Democrats in West Virginia — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin and Rep. Nick Rahall — announced they would not be attending the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. And a spokesman for another Democrat, Rep. Mark
In West Virginia’s presidential primary, 41 percent of Democrats voted for convicted felon, Keith Judd, over President Barack Obama, and, yesterday, three of the state’s most prominent Democrats announced they would not be attending the Democratic National Convention in North
President Barack Obama has aggressively sought New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s endorsement, hoping his endorsement will convince voters that Obama is a better manager than Romney, which is the greatest advantage Romney has over Obama. However, three sources told the
Yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union” Senior White House adviser David Plouffe defended President Barack Obama’s decision to halt the deportations of illegal immigrants under 30 years of age. “This is not a political move,” Plouffe said of Obama’s
The lead character in Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series “The Newsroom” “slices up” right-wingers and the “ensemble beams at him, their eyes glowing as if they were cultists,” according to New Yorker magazine. Such a formula usually wins plaudits among
