Moody’s released their assessment of the credit ratings for five of the biggest U.S. financial firms, and the news isn’t good. Every one of the firms was downgraded. From top to bottom, they read like this: Goldman Sachs was downgraded two notches
Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) has approved a law that will penalize retirees by requiring them to pay additional taxes in order to receive health insurance, starting July 1. There are 78,000 retirees who will be affected. Each year, the state’s administration will
There are conflicting reports about who is committing war crimes in Syria. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, the opposition rebels are murdering Christians. The Vatican reports that, while Christians are being murdered, the rebels are destroying Christian churches, broadcasting
Eric Holder has now tried to retract a statement he made that his predecessor Michael Mukasey, the Attorney General under George W. Bush, knew about gunwalking in the Fast and Furious scandal and did nothing to stop it. Holder claims
There was a time when immigrants to America assiduously studied English, knowing that their prospects for employment would be adversely affected by their inability to communicate. Then came the days of bilingual education, and the subsequent era of printing documents
What other license to violate societal norms can the Democratic Party endorse? Now it’s drugs. Texas Democrats have joined with other supporters of legalizing marijuana in urging the federal government to decriminalize the drug. In the party’s platform, the Democrats
According to rollcall.com, President Barack Obama is the presidential candidate that women would prefer for a sugar daddy. An organization called SeekingArrangement.com, which bills itself as “the world’s largest sugar daddy dating website,” says women chose Obama almost 3-to-1 over
It’s becoming clear that Barack Obama, who is as ruthless in his dealings as anyone ever to occupy the White House, is now trading on the perception that he’s the underdog in the 2012 election. Stuart Rothenberg, writing for Roll
The Washington Post released a column Wednesday in which they claim that the tax reform plan proposed by House Republicans would “sharply cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and could leave middle-class households facing much larger tax bills.” This claim
National Journal, which purports to be a non-partisan publication, headlines a piece decrying national security leaks by the Obama Administration this way: “Insiders Say Leaks Will Affect U.S. Foreign Policy–But Only a Little.” It’s not surprising the Journal downplays the damage
Members of the left, panicked that President Obama is not acting fast enough to regulate campaign financing, have issued shrill warnings about his slowness to politicize the Federal Election Commission. The FEC has five commissioners, three of whom are Republicans, and
Barack Obama’s Department of Justice is up to its secret ways again. Last year, six Muslims in south Florida were arrested and charged with sending tens of thousands of dollars to fund the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, as Judicial Watch
The Huffington Post breathlessly reported that Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobe Prize-winning economist who is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, says that the super-rich have gotten more expert than they ever were at getting even
Dyrel Bartee, a teacher at Grover Cleveland High School in Queens, NY, has been banned from all city schools after his behavior in sex education class. He was accused of illustrating childbirth by spreading his legs and grabbing his crotch
Jailhouse phone calls made between George Zimmerman and his wife relating to their finances have been released by prosecutors eager to find evidence that would cast doubt on Zimmerman’s credibility in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Shellie Zimmerman, George
According to Germany’s newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitun, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will step down when his second term ends and will not pull a Vladimir Putin, returning to power later. When asked why he was leaving, Ahmadinejad was quoted as
The Shiner, Texas case in which a young father beat the molester of his five-year-old daughter has now been ruled a homicide. The dead man has been identified as Jesus Mora Flores, 47, of Gonzales, Texas, an alleged acquaintance of
Even after the latest election results in Greece, financial markets are greatly concerned about Greece’s future and the prospects for the Eurozone. The two leading parties most likely to take over the government came very close to splitting the bulk
Newark mayor Cory Booker, who was flayed by the Left and referred to as “dead” by members of the Obama Administration after he defended Mitt Romney from attacks on his Bain capital record, is feuding with the Left again –
The Muslim Brotherhood’s big win in Egypt may in fact cause civil unrest or even civil war. Surprisingly, with the future of the country balanced between two parties with radically opposing views, many voters protested the choices that were available
Leon Panetta, the Secretary of Defense, has testified before Congress that the Obama Administration did not reveal classified information to the makers of the upcoming movie detailing the killing of Osama Bin Laden. In his testimony he said no unauthorized
Hip-hop princess Ashanti was paid $20,000 to speak to kids at Atlantic City High School. The city, which was celebrating its multicultural festival, did not pay for the singer; the school did. “She was paid like any other vendor,” said Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum
When United States forces leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 (at least, that’s Barack Obama’s plan if he’s still in office) they plan to equip the Afghan police and army with the finest clothes and disguises money can buy. The Washington
This can’t be happening. It can’t. But it is. ABC News, the same network and news department that gave us Charles Gibson’s on-camera sandbagging of Sarah Palin, is calling Barack Obama an elitist. The hell you say. You must be
Stephen Baldwin, the youngest of the four acting Baldwin brothers, lost his lawsuit against Kevin Costner in which he alleged Costner had cheated him out of millions by encouraging him to prematurely sell his shares in a company that made a fortune
