If you work in a “Public Service” field, and you have student loans that you can’t pay off, there’s good news from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): you may not have to pay them at all! You heard that
On Fox News, Congressman Dennis Kucinich stated that Barack Obama could be impeached if he attacked Syria without Congressional approval. Kucinich was asked, “You really think the president is risking impeachment by moving without congressional approval against Syria?” He responded: Yes,
Contrary to what Barack Obama and Co. want Americans to believe, ObamaCare’s benefits are anything but free.American Enterprise Institute’s Jim Capretta told Fox News, “There’s going to be taxes on insurance. Taxes on drugs. Taxes on medical devices. All of
Asma Assad, 38, the wife of Syrian president Bashar Assad, used to receive glowing praise as an imitation of Princess Diana of Wales, a woman who cared about art and culture and was sensitive to the needs of her country.
A new hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s Othello, commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, is wowing 450 inmates at the Cook County Jail. There are an onstage DJ and four actors reinventing the story. The original version featured Othello, a powerful Moorish warrior
While California desperately tries to keep film and TV production in-state, Hollywood’s production companies are raking in the dough elsewhere. Michigan’s film office has announced it will offer $35 million to Warner brothers for shooting parts of Man of Steel
Only 10% of Americans think race relations have improved since the election of Barack Obama, according to a new Rasmussen poll. 43% think race relations have deteriorated and 44% say there’s been no change. Only 30% of those polled think
Exactly how lazy is the United States Senate? This lazy: they apparently require elevator operators to push the buttons in elevators. Even after Senate said the jobs in the senators-only elevators were nonessential in 2011, the jobs still exist. Over
The inventor of the foam finger, recently used by Miley Cyrus in her train-wreck act at the VMA awards, said Cyrus “degraded” his invention, which he called a “national icon.” Steve Chmelar, who created the original foam finger in 1971, told
Fast-food workers, who do not see their jobs as entry-level jobs but instead believe that the jobs are worthy of higher pay, carried out a huge strike on Thursday across the nation. McDonald’s Corp., Wendy’s Restaurants LLC, Burger King Worldwide Inc., and
If someone asks how self-absorbed the younger generation can be, all you have to do is point to the website “Selfies at Serious Places,” which documents photos taken by the subjects of themselves at scenes of tragedies. Some examples of
In a potentially explosive decision, Judge Meredith Jury of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has ruled that the city of San Bernardino, California can indeed declare bankruptcy, despite the fact that the city stopped paying
In an essay marking the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous, “I Have a Dream” speech, former congressman Lt. Col. Allen West illuminated the parts of King’s dream that have gone unfulfilled while targeting the liberal establishment
Weiner is shrinking in New York. According to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, Anthony Weiner is polling a paltry 8% of likely Democratic primary voters, well behind Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, (36%), City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (21%), and
The Sacramento Bee reports that the state’s Employment Development Department is about to cut its number of staff because the funding it gets from the federal government has been slashed. Normally, the federal unemployment insurance program is the bulwark for
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released soon after the George Zimmerman verdict showed that while a majority of Americans feel that their fellow citizens are judged by their character, black Americans felt strongly that race was a decisive factor.
As of Wednesday evening, 116 members of the House of Representatives–18 Democrats among them–have signed a letter to Barack Obama insisting that any strikes against Syria must first be authorized by Congress. The letter asserts that a strike without Congressional
Camille Paglia, feminist extraordinaire takes Miley Cyrus to task at Time.com for her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Paglia writes that the issue isn’t that she was “Disgusting!” “Raunchy!” “Desperate!” as some reviews would have it, but that Cyrus
Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and Dr. Rudolph J. Schrot , two neurosurgeons at the University of California, Davis, have resigned after officials at the university found their actions violated the school’s code of conduct. The doctors had infected brain-cancer patients
According to two Gallup polls, the verdict in the George Zimmerman case has caused more blacks to think new civil rights laws are needed, the government should be more involved in improving blacks’ welfare, and that blacks are treated badly
Google Palestine was defaced by hackers, who wrote on the site, “uncle google we say hi from palestine to remember you that the country in google map not called Israel. its called Palestine.” The hackers seemed to be responding to
North Carolina has enacted a bill banning its judges from considering Islamic law in some court rulings. The legislation passed without Gov. Pat McCrory signing it. He called the bill “unnecessary” but still did not veto it, so it became the
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest member of the Court, spoke to Bloomberg News and trumpeted her own achievements. She did this while stating she has no desire to step down so that Barack Obama can make certain
It may be time to trash your old periodic tables; it seems that very soon you will have to add element number 115 to the table. Physicists at Lund University in Sweden announced Tuesday the new man-made element ununpentium, which
ABC News, trying desperately to reinforce the impression that Barack Obama has a coherent foreign policy, attempted to defend Obama’s indecision about his policy toward Syria and his unwillingness to give his term “red line” any real significance. ABC News
