Newly-unearthed documents contradict claims from Matt Bevin, challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell in the upcoming Kentucky Republican primary, that he always opposed the 2008 federal bailout while attacking McConnell for supporting it. Politico reports Bevin was a supporter of the 2008 $700
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” We don’t have her any more after her death Monday night, and the truth is we are not all right. Shirley
During a visit to Thomas Jefferson’s estate Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia on Monday, President Obama joked to French President Hollande that he can “do whatever I want.” Tangi Quemener, the White House Correspondent for Agence France Presse, sent a message
Due to a series of errors with the Covered California physician directories, the health exchange has pulled the lists down. Errors have included listing doctors speaking languages in which they were not fluent; Obstetricians somehow listed as Ophthalmologists; and doctors
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services said Monday that HealthCare.gov will not be available for roughly two and a half days starting this Saturday, February 15. The pause will last from 3 p.m. on Feb. 15 until 5 a.m.
As the Sochi, Russia, Olympics entered the field of news, the story of the failed Olympic boycott in 1980 instigated by Jimmy Carter was told in detail by Politico Sunday. As Politico writes, Carter was eager to boycott the Moscow Summer
According to the Daily Breeze, the superintendent of the Centinela Valley High School District in Los Angeles, Jose Fernandez, is making an insanely inflated amount of money because of perks he had negotiated in his contract. Fernandez made more than
North Korea has decided to repeat its refusal for a U.S. envoy to discuss with Pyongyang the release of Kenneth Bae, an American businessman in jail. The State Department said it was “deeply disappointed,” while on Sunday State Department spokeswoman
The Associated Press writes that MSNBC, the network that is rife with anti-conservative and anti-GOP rhetoric, is beginning to realize – together with its corporate affiliates – that its personal attacks on Republicans may not be in its interest. The AP reports that
In a gushing tribute, The New Republic delivered an article extolling The Onion as a vehicle for imparting communist values to the masses. According to writer Emmett Rensin, “Rather, the vanguard of revolution – the paper most dedicated to the overthrowing capitalism [sic]
Funded by taxpayers, a Madison, Wisconsin, conference for all members of the educational system, including teachers, university faculty, students ranging from high school to college, and political activists intends to teach the attendees to “dismantle this system of white supremacy,
On Friday, only two days after federal officials declared the water in the Kanawha-Charleston, West Virginia area to be safe to use, one of the two chemicals that leaked into West Virginia’s Elk River last month, was found in the
Bill Clinton is traveling to Kentucky to help its Secretary of State, Alison Lundergan Grimes, in her bid to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Clinton will join Grimes on February 25 in Louisville. Grimes said, “We are very excited
Three-year-old Erielys Ahorrio and her brother, four-year-old John Ahorrio, were found safe in Philadelphia Friday morning after their father, 23-year-old Eddie Ahorrio Jr., and their grandfather, 47-year-old Eddie Ahorrio Sr., abducted them at gunpoint Thursday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. An Amber
The New York Times editorial department passed on publishing Dylan Farrow’s letter accusing Woody Allen, her adoptive father, of sexually molesting her as a child before it was published on Nicholas Kristof’s blog in the same paper, according to Politico.
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) decided she was going to leave a lasting impression as this year’s Democratic comedy keynote speaker at Wednesday’s Washington Press Club Foundation annual dinner. She left a lasting impression, all right. After a skit featuring Edwards
Vice President Joe Biden, following Barack Obama’s lead in never missing a chance to disparage America relative to the rest of the world, said Thursday that New York’s LaGuardia Airport feels like it’s “in some third world country.” Speaking in Philadelphia
In an astonishing display of the giant strides science and medicine have made, European researchers have developed a bionic hand that is sensitive to textures and shapes. Heretofore, artificial hands could not give the wearer any sensation of what he
Disappointing Wall Street, General Motors’ earnings from the fourth quarter of 2013 fell short of expectations. GM made $913 million in the fourth quarter, which was more than the $892 million from the fourth quarter of 2012, but the company’s
Ann Friedman, writing for nymag.com, has joined the list of those who believe Dylan Farrow’s claim she was molested by her adoptive father Woody Allen when she was 7 years old. Friedman notes that Farrow’s estranged brother Moses characterizes her
The Wall Street Journal reports that real disposable income among Americans only grew 0.7% in 2013, the weakest growth since 2009. Because of the minimization of income growth, the rise in consumer spending over the last two months of 2013 is expected
Twenty dispensaries have been licensed in Massachusetts to start growing and selling marijuana for medical use. Regulators in the state were given 100 applications to open dispensaries in 2012, with permission to offer up to 35 licenses. An official with
The first negative January for the S&P 500 since 2010 is giving historians of Wall Street pause, considering that historically a bad January bodes ill for a barometer of the coming year. According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac, when January
A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 62% of those polled feel tonight’s State of the Union (SOTU) address from Barack Obama is “mostly just for show.” Obama’s trustworthiness among the American public is slipping; last year 53% of those polled
Global warming devotees, please take note; what some are calling a “once in a generation” ice storm is paralyzing the Deep South on Tuesday. It is not just the Deep South that is being crippled; the brutal cold temperatures across
