New home sales dropped in March by 7.1 percent, according to the Commerce Department. The median sales price dropped to $234,500, down 1 percent from February. Unsold new homes fell to 144,000 in March, the least since 1963. Homebuilders crippled
Annie Potts, one of the stars of the new ABC show GCB, asserted that her show is designed to “disinfect” Christianity. Blathering on PBS’S Tavis Smiley show, Potts said: I’m getting a lot of letters and tweets and things from
Many of the super-rich moguls of New York City own guns, according to the NYPD, and some people are enraged about it. Eugene O’Donnell, a John Jay professor and former cop, charged, “By definition, these are the least needy people
Cynthia McKinney, the far-left former Georgia congresswoman and presidential candidate in 2008 on the Green Party ticket, is readying an attempt to win back her old congressional seat. She needs 18,860 signatures to get on the ballot, and last week
Former GOP White House contender Jon Huntsman on Monday explained the comparison he made between the Republican Party and Communist Party of China the night before as “waxing philosophical” on the state of politics. On Sunday night Huntsman equated being
Michelle Obama, just like her ubiquitous husband, is all over your TV. Since she became First Lady, she has appeared more than 40 times on television shows ranging from “Sesame Street” to Jay Leno and David Letterman. This dwarfs the
Excitement! Thrills! Hobnobbing with the crème de la crème of American society! All of these can be yours if you toss Barack Obama some cash. That, at least, is the message of President Obama’s latest campaign to raise money: he’s
Young Americans graduating from college are facing the grimmest job prospects in more than ten years. According to an analysis of a 2011 Current Population Survey data, roughly 1.5 million, or 53.6 %, of new graduates under 25 last year
I thought we were supposed to “never forget” 9/11? Well, they don’t call Hollywood La-La Land for no reason. Yesterday, Bette Midler, political commentator and historian par excellence, waxed eloquent on Twitter about why the United States is in an
Fred Kaplan, writing for Slate.com, suggested Thursday that the United States should ignore any threats that the North Korean regime may pose. “The North Koreans can be such a pain, so wearying, you wish that you could just ignore them.
In a move to block the renaming of corn syrup to corn sugar, various groups opposing the change wrote the Food and Drug Administration in protest. In 2010, the Corn Refiners of America asked the FDA to allow them to
The Los Angeles School District has bolted from the challenge it set itself in 2004, when they wanted it to be mandatory for all students to pass college-prep courses before they graduated high school. Tuesday, the district changed course, saying
According to the Department of Labor, although claims for unemployment decreased in the week ending April 14, the 4-week moving average was 374,750–up 5,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 369,250. This means that the economy is not improving,
In a new poll released by Quinnipiac University, the race between presumptive republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama is very close. Obama leads Romney 46% to 42%. The poll also claimed that Romney had the edge among voters on
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch opponent of foreign aid, says he specifically wants the U.S. to cut off all financial aid to Egypt. Paul, in a letter to President Obama, stated that Egypt has issued arrest warrants against
Al Gore’s Current TV has hired Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco who defied the law by authorizing same-sex marriages in his city. Never mind the fact that Newsom is now the lieutenant governor of California, and that
Two “peace activists” who flew in to Israel to be part of the Anti-Israel fly-in protest left a swastika scrawled on a wall in Ben-Gurion airport. The two Nazi wannabees were among 79 foreigners who arrived in Israel in the
During this year’s Super Bowl, a commercial was aired with Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. In the casting call requirements a request was made for the actor to be playing the car dealer to be a “Nice-looking, friendly, not too
Visa reported yesterday that teenagers going to the prom are not taking just their clothes to the cleaners; they’re taking their parents. The average cost of the night that teens regard as the night they’ll always remember: $1,078. Last year
President Obama, apparently frightened by his reelection prospects dimming, attacked “oil speculators” today in an attempt to find someone to blame for high gas prices. He asked Congress for $52 million so the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could clamp
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcom X’s grandson, stated on Press TV, Iran’s television network, that blacks are murdered in the United States while their murderers go unpunished because the system is unjust. This was in response to the Trayvon Martin incident:
Chelsea Clinton, who was hired as a reporter by NBC and subsequently called “one of the most boring people of her era” by no less than the Clinton outlet Washington Post, has renewed her three-month contract with NBC. NBC, ABC
Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asserted on Friday at a National Rifle Association convention that his investigation of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal will continue “until the full truth of Fast and
Over the weekend, President Obama claimed that part of his job is to scout out vacation spots for his wife, Michelle. Speaking in Colombia, on a panel moderated by Chris Matthews and joined by the presidents of Brazil and Colombia,
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that she “feels better” about the Democrats’ chances of retaking the House because women favor Obama over Romney. “I would have said, two months ago, we had a 50-50 chance of winning the House
