The AFL-CIO is conceding its union lacks the power in the South to influence the upcoming 2014 elections, so it is not investing heavily in three hotly contested Senate races. The AFL-CIO looked at the number of union members in
An RTA bus driver in Dayton, Ohio, had a miraculous escape from death Monday morning when he was shot twice in the chest in an apparent gang initiation. The bullets were stopped by the driver’s copy of a religious devotional
Google, in an effort to aid environmentalists worried about deforestation, now has a website, an online forest monitoring system, that tracks deforestation in real time around the world. Called Global Forest Watch, it uses curated maps with in-depth reporting regarding
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is expected to release his proposal for severe cuts in the nation’s military, which will leave the U.S. Army with its smallest force since World War II. The cuts are expected to include
The Taliban in Afghanistan said Sunday they have cut off any “mediation” with the United States in which their captive U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be exchanged for five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
A PAC that views itself as youth-driven and grass-roots called the Liberty Action Fund is planning on throwing its support behind former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas and other like-minded candidates. The Liberty Action Fund is an offshoot of Young Americans
The GOP, tired of being criticized for losing to the Democrats in 2012 because they had antiquated approaches to elections, have secured the internet domain ending .gop for websites, making the websites easier to remember and find. Will Martinez, vice
The Food and Drug Administration was given permission by Congress in 2010 to regulate practices on farms across the nation. Now small farms, many of whom use organic farming techniques, are finding that the methods they have been using for
In a watershed moment and a huge victory over environmentalists, General Electric has agreed to stop projects that are designed solely for the purpose of carbon dioxide reductions to please those who lobby for climate change concessions. The National Center
In Tokyo, hundreds of copies of The Diary of Anne Frank have been vandalized in more than 30 libraries. Scores of pages were ripped out of at least 265 books; city official Mitsujiro Ikeda said that in the Nakano district
On Wednesday California’s version of ObamaCare, Covered California, failed once again, as website errors cut off online enrollment. Thursday, the website flashed a message saying, “the enrollment portion of the site is being worked on.” The website explained, “Covered California’s enrollment
Typifying the utterly ineffectual foreign policy that has been endemic for the entirety of the Obama administration, Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev rebuffed U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, refusing to take even one of the phone calls Hagel made to him. Pentagon
Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Matt Bevin said on Wednesday that if same sex marriages were legal, marriages between parents and children could be next. Bevin made the comments following his attack on Mitch McConnell for recommending a judge who ruled
Feeling his oats, Barack Obama has decided to jettison his proposal from last year to use chained CPI (consumer price index) to calculate benefits, which would have cut Social Security benefits. Obama had proposed the ideas last year as a
In a frightening development truly reminiscent of George Orwell’s Big Brother, the FCC has plans to invade newsrooms around the nation with government contractors who will survey the outlets’ products and decide if they meet Americans’ “critical information needs.” FCC
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s will, which was drawn up in October 2004 when his son Cooper was only one year old and his daughters were not yet born, stipulated that Cooper be raised in one of three cities. Los Angeles, with
Sharon Stone is filing suit against a Hollywood producer who wanted herto travel to Cuba to play Ernest Hemingway’s wife in a new movie titled Papa. Stone claims that producer BobYari told Stone to claim she was traveling to Cuba
Is the Keystone XL pipeline dead? Bold Nebraska, a group that is fighting the pipeline, is celebrating the decision by Lancaster County District Court Judge Stephanie Stacy to invalidate as unconstitutional a 2012 state law that gave Gov. Dave Heineman the
The White House issued a press release on Thursday from the office of Michelle Obama touting the fourth anniversary of her program, “Let’s Move.” The press release said that “we are moving toward a healthier future and this movement is
Robin Wright, who stars in the Netflix series House of Cards, told Capitol File magazine that Washington D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. Wright was asked by the luxury lifestyle magazine whether the stories on House of Cards, which feature reporters
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin that warned the incoming airline flights from overseas may be attacked by passengers wearing explosives in their shoes. Apparently the bulletin did not name a particular airline or a window
Now that The Tonight Show has moved back to New York after a 40-plus year stint in Burbank, California, it appears that some of the luster of Hollywood has faded for the show’s viewers. Indeed, the move to California in
Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-OR) is intending to draft a law that would entitle every child born in the United States to a $500 savings account of their own. Wyden stated that if there were universal savings accounts for newborns, it
Three states whose state-run exchanges are failing spectacularly are being investigated by GOP members fed up with these exchanges receiving funds from the federal government. In Oregon, Maryland, and Massachusetts, all states with Democratic governors who supported Obamacare, the state-run
Angered by Barack Obama’s usurpation of power in his statements that he would act unilaterally without Congress, 106 GOP House members have sponsored House Resolution 442, titled the “Stop This Overreaching Presidency (STOP)” measure. H.R. 442, the STOP measure, was introduced
