Texas Governor Rick Perry is courting California’s businesses by launching ads on radio that delineate the difference between California’s anti-business climate and the pro-business attitude of Texas. The ads are running all over the state, from San Francisco and Sacramento
Eddie Ray Routh, an Iraq War Veteran, has been charged with murdering Chris Kyle, the well-known former Navy SEAL sniper, and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield. Routh had been in and out of a mental hospital for the last five months.
A split in the ranks of GOP senators is occurring over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is favoring a filibuster over the nomination, which would mean Hagel would have to get 60 votes, not
Who just appeared in a Super Bowl ad for pistachios? Why, it’s PSY, the South Korean performer whose YouTube video has the most hits in history (more than 900 million); the same guy who performed at the White House in
Barack Obama, in an attempt to appear sympathetic to gun owners’ concerns as he pursues a gun-banning agenda in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, recently bragged that he goes skeet shooting at Camp David “all the time.”
February 4 is here, and surprise of surprises, Barack Obama, for the fourth time in five years, has missed the deadline for submitting a budget. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is in the middle of submitting a budget of his
The editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, Clara Jeffery, has gotten herself into hot water on Twitter by using the death of Navy Seal Chris Kyle as a weapon to argue for gun control. Kyle, the most celebrated sniper in the armed
Jesse Jackson, a resident of Chicago, joined other Chicagoans who have lost relatives to gunfire in stating that in order for the deadly rate of shootings in Chicago to be abated, Barack Obama needs to pay a visit to his hometown.
Former Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton is urging senators who will consider the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense to force Hagel to make clear his views about Iran’s nuclear program, claiming Barack Obama and the West have made
How many Americans are on the brink economically? Almost 44% of Americans will wind up in poverty if they lose their incomes because they don’t own enough assets or have savings that could be their safety net. The nonprofit Corporation
There are two schools of thought within the GOP as to whether the U.S. should sell arms to Egypt: some senators, led by Rand Paul, want to eliminate arm sales altogether, while others, led by James Inhofe, would prefer to
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the terribly shy couple that came to prominence on MTV’s series The Hills, are now claiming that they wasted $10 million because they believed the Mayan Apocalypse would occur Dec. 21, 2012. Pratt resisted his
In a poignant reminder of a simpler time in America, when the pace of events was slower and the electronic world of video games, cell phones, and obsessing on the Internet was still well in the future, the Daily Mail
Texas Governor Rick Perry claimed this week that the health of the U.S. economy is dependent in large part on Texas. Perry said, “You think about what’s happening in the country, job-wise, economic impact-wise, if you were to take Texas out of
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is an expert on economics, said Thursday the American economy is “in a recovery.” Reid’s comment was a response to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) remarks blaming the White House for the
In California, the argument over how to protect schoolchildren is becoming a partisan political issue, with Republicans now offering a proposal to train teachers, administrators, and janitors in the use of firearms to guard the children, while Democrats assert that the
Gas prices in California are heading skyward again, with the anticipated average in Southern California on its way to exceeding $4 per gallon. The average price in California is currently $3.73 a gallon, with Southern Californians paying $3.31 per gallon
MSNBC refuses to apologize for their deceptively edited video of Neil Heslin, whose son was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, being “heckled” by gun rights activists. This is a recurring pattern for NBC News; they have selectively edited
It’s good to be king–or at least the man who has to deny being one. In an interview with the leading Hispanic network Univision, President Barack Obama stated, “I think it’s important to remind everybody that, what I’ve said previously,
In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Kate Aronoff, a student organizer with Swarthmore Mountain Justice and a board member at the Responsible Endowments Coalition, compared her organization’s fight for disinvestment in fossil fuel companies to the fight
An anonymous pollster has been calling New York City voters with a penetrating question: would they vote for Anthony Weiner for mayor? The unnamed pollster asked voters which Democratic candidate they would be likely to vote for: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio,
In San Francisco, the decline in newspaper circulation might mean the city is going to the dogs. San Francisco’s animal control agency is concerned that with the advent of digital media and the concomitant decline in printed newspapers, there will
California Governor Jerry Brown may boast about his efforts to keep California solvent, but the budget problems of the state are severe enough that there is no money to track down roughly 20,000 convicts and mentally ill citizens to confiscate
In an interview with Politico, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg displayed his own unique flair for eloquence and his amazingly self-serving view of the political scene around him. Referring to Joe Biden’s statements endorsing gay marriage that preceded Barack
Does Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City–a tight-ass on gun control, soda beverages, and assorted other basic rights–know another tight ass when he sees one? He does. In New York Magazine‘s profile of Christine Quinn, a mayoral candidate, Bloomberg
