Bill Clinton, campaigning for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, ripped into the GOP for blasting the inept rollout of ObamaCare. Clinton claimed, “The computer deal will get fixed up. Don’t worry about that,” and then cited the cooperation of
Event data recorders, also known as “black boxes,” are now at the center of an argument as to how to raise money for maintaining America’s highways. California has plans to use the boxes to track every mile driven by motorists
On Monday night, ABC News and Univison are launching a new cable network called Fusion. The target audience is young Latinos, and the first interview shown will be with Barack Obama. Just minutes after the network starts broadcasting, viewers will
On November 1, a cut to benefits will kick in that will affect 47 million food stamp recipients. In 2009, Democrats included a funding increase in Barack Obama’s stimulus law, but that increase ends November 1. Conservatives have taken the
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, growling that a grand bargain between the GOP and Democrats that would cut entitlement programs was just “happy talk,” said that rich people want to pay more money to the government. On Nevada Public Radio,
Because voters in five states where Democrat incumbent senators are running for reelection in 2014 are more against ObamaCare than for it, five senators have joined to call for extending the law’s enrollment period and delaying penalties for those who
In a condemnation of the federal government that comes from an unusual source, Hollywood celebrities have joined in a video ripping the National Security Agency for its ubiquitous spying on Americans. Director Oliver Stone, along with actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, John
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the openly gay actor who is one of the stars of Modern Family, told Oprah Winfrey that the gay rights movement is “the defining civil rights movement of our time.” Appearing on Oprah’s Next Chapter,” with comedienne
There are currently 50 pandas loaned out by China to various countries for the purpose of ensuring major trade and foreign investment deals. A paper from Oxford university stated, “Panda loans are associated with nations supplying China with valuable resources and
The USS Forrestal, the U.S. Navy’s first supercarrier which was called the “biggest ship ever built” by Popular Science when it launched in 1954, has been sold for one penny to All Star Metals, a Texas company that will dismantle
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield revealed to the Washington Examiner that 76,000 of its customers will lose their health plans with the advent of ObamaCare. The people affected come from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. and comprise over 40% of the clients
Barack Obama, doing what he does best, is back campaigning and fundraising hard for the next five weeks. Obama’s plans include eight fundraisers for Democrats in the House and Senate. The events include: New York: Fundraising for House Democrats and
Al Sharpton, who is a resident of New York City, is moving to Chicago to stop gun violence there. Sharpton, who announced in July that he planned to move to Chicago, confirmed on Sunday that he plans to rent an
Federal judges ruled on October 21 that the state of California could delay its thinning of the number of prison inmates for another month. The judges explained their decision by citing the time a court-appointed mediator would need to find
In a bombshell revelation, a consumer sales manager for North Dakota’s largest health insurer said Monday that the Obama Administration asked Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota to hide how many people registered for health insurance through an online
Tina Brown, who is leaving her position as editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast which she founded in 2008, had a few choice words regarding the rollout of ObamaCare, castigating Barack Obama’s defining accomplishment for issuing portentous announcements with an incompetent follow-through.
Alan Grayson, the Democratic representative from Florida’s 9th congressional district, sent out a fundraising email that showed a burning cross used to represent the “T” in Tea Party. Dave Levinthal, senior political reporter at Public Integrity, caught it and tweeted,
An associate professor of law at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution, resigned because he did not like the university’s decision to eliminate insurance coverage of elective abortion. Stephen F. Diamond, who taught at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
Buzzfeed reports that there is a silver lining to the government shutdown: while hardliners on both sides were fighting, moderates on both sides had a chance to sneak away and try to find common ground. Buzzfeed notes that the Future
A new discovery of an ancient skull from an ancestor of humans has scientists backtracking from their earlier claims that separate species in Africa were the progenitors of the human race. The skull, found in the Georgian villiage of Dmanisi,
Catherine Ashton, the EU’s head of foreign policy, has released a statement asserting that Iran is engaging in the “most detailed talks ever” with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (America, Russia, China, France, and Britain) plus
To kick off the Christmas season, Lady Gaga will co-host a 90 minute “Holiday Spectacular” on Thanksgiving night with the Muppets. Lady Gaga & the Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular will air on ABC, where the pop star will sing songs from
A 2010 case that featured three Northern California high school students forced to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out or go home because it was Cinco de Mayo has now reached a three-judge federal appeals court in San Francisco.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that Obama wants “accountability” from those who are trying to fix errors with the disaster-plagued Obamacare website. Carney wouldn’t say whether the White House would try to recover the money paid to
Arlington National Cemetery is changing its policy so that family members of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan can leave small mementos and photos at their graves, which are in Section 60. Formerly, the cemetery’s policy was that only veterans’ organizations
