Would-be mayor Anthony Weiner believes he has found a way for New York City to stand up to rising health care costs: the government, if he gets to helm it. The former Congressman revealed Thursday he wants New York City to act
On Wednesday, Great Britain’s Girl Guides (their equivalent of U.S. Girl Scouts) and Brownies removed God from their 103-year-old oath. Instead of the passage where they used to promise to “love God,” they will now vow to be true to “myself”
Garry Kasparov, the one-time chess champion of the world who turned his brilliant fighting mind to challenge the iron grip of Vladimir Putin in his native Russia, has issued a statement clarifying his speech on June 5 in Geneva in
The U.N. in its inimitably impotent way, is hoping that by adding six ancient Syrian sites to the U.N.’s endangered World Heritage sites the fighters on both sides of the Syrian conflict will leave the sites untouched. The additions were
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has a new list of the 101 best-written TV series of all time. The Sopranos finished on top. The WGA wrote of its top choice: The Sopranos received the most votes, and no show has
One of the most famous art museums in the world is featuring an exhibition by a Palestinian that glorifies Palestinian terrorists who died during the 2000-2005 intifada. The Jeu de Paume, which once featured the greatest works of French Impressionists
There are a number of women who are into Anthony Weiner. A fundraiser hosted by “Women for Anthony” is scheduled for next week in Manhattan. What is becoming abundantly clear is that Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, best known for her
The House voted Wednesday voted to give states the power to perform drug tests on people who apply for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The proposal was written as an amendment to North Carolina GOP Rep.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is joining with two campaign finance watchdog groups, Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, to sue the IRS for its regulations that give “wiggle room” to nonprofit groups allowing them to engage in political actions.
A Texas man has been accused of threatening to kidnap, murder, and burn Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his father. Nick Gates said if he wasn’t paid $3 million, he would not only harm Cruz and his dad; he would
Hollywood celebrities have joined Global Zero, a leftist international nuclear disarmament group, by making a video in which they parrot President Barack Obama’s infamous 2009 speech in Prague where he said he would try to start reducing America’s nuclear stockpile
General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, claimed before the House Intelligence Committee that the government’s much-criticized surveillance of Americans have stopped almost 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one which targeted the New York Stock Exchange. Sean
Never doubt for a moment that the Democrats will close ranks when a presidential election is in the foreseeable future. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri (D), whose support for Barack Obama in the 2008 Missouri primary helped him barely win
Roughly 50,000 Californians insured by Aetna, Inc. will have to find new coverage by next January, because the insurance corporation says it will stop selling individual health insurance policies in California in July. Small and large employers will still be
Jeb Bush dismissed conservative critics who are not fond of a Bush 2016 presidential run as “chirpers.” Bush, interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network, said, “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I
Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are introducing two amendments in the full Senate to protect the religious rights of those in the U.S. armed forces. Last week, the two amendments passed in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s
It turns out that the surveillance of Americans may be even more dangerous and unsupervised than had been heretofore acknowledged- but the powers that be aren’t willing to admit it. The National Security Agency (NSA) admitted in a secret briefing that its
Saudi Arabia is expanding the Grand Mosque in Mecca, according to wire reports, which contains the Kaaba, so that 2.2 million people can visit there simultaneously. The area of the Mosque will be increased by 400,000 square metres (4.3 million square feet).
The IRS, despite being under fire for harassing conservative groups, has terminated fewer employees in 2013 than in any year since 2002. Only 74 people, less than 0.1% of the complete IRS workforce, were fired for misconduct between September 30, 2012 and
The IRS may insist that you pay you taxes on time or they’ll come after you, but the agency isn’t quite so harsh when it comes to their own. The Treasury Inspector General (IG) for Tax Administration has revealed that
In a landmark case centering on gene patenting, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that patents can be held on synthetically produced genetic material but not on naturally occurring human genes. This will profoundly affect breast cancer screenings
