According to the Washington Post, a looter in Ferguson, Missouri, expressed pride and admiration for looters and said their actions are justified. “I’m proud of us. We deserve this, and this is what’s supposed to happen when there’s injustice in
Even as Democratic Missouri Governor Jay Nixon calls National Guard troops to attempt to quell the Ferguson riots and looting, President Barack Obama will resume his luxury vacation at a posh, $12 million, 17-room mansion in tony Martha’s Vineyard for
Democratic Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) said on Sunday he was “thunderstruck” by the “over-militarization” of the police in responding to the Ferguson riots and looting. Hours later, he ordered in the U.S. military in the form of the National
U.S. debt has increased over $7.6 billion since President Barack Obama departed last Saturday for his two-week luxury vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. According to the Treasury Department, U.S. debt total debt stood at $17,672,734,489,595.15 prior to his departure. As of
President Barack Obama has already played nearly eight times as many rounds of golf during his presidency as President George W. Bush did throughout his eight years in office, according to noted presidential chronicler of all things numerical, CBS News’
A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public
America’s third-largest health insurer, Aetna, says its Obamacare enrollments are on pace to fall as much as 30% by the end of 2014. As Investor’s Business Daily reported on Monday, Aetna had 720,000 Obamacare sign-ups as of May 20. By
U.S. jobs pay an average 23% less today than they did before the 2008 recession, according to a new report released on Monday by the United States Conference of Mayors. In total, the report found $93 billion in lost wages.
On Monday, the U.S. Postal Service announced it lost $1.96 billion in the third quarter. The fledgling service reported total liabilities of $67.16 billion versus just $23.16 billion in assets. “The agency is saddled with a congressional mandate that requires
Looters ransacked and burned stores in a St. Louis suburb on Sunday night in the wake of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer. The unrest manifested in various ways and encompassed several areas. Gunshots were
Amid an international ebola health emergency, U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, and the illegal immigration crisis surging on the southern border, President Barack Obama leaves on Saturday for a lavish Martha’s Vineyard twelve day vacation at the 8,100-square foot mansion of
A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation finds that Obamacare’s myriad exemptions mean nearly 90% of America’s 30 million uninsured individuals will pay zero penalty as part of the individual mandate. In
In an interview with Juan Williams, Attorney General Eric Holder said he is, indeed, an activist attorney general and proud of it. “If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” said Holder.
President Barack Obama concedes in a new Economist interview that the economic plight of middle-class and working-class American families has not improved under his leadership. “Middle-class and working-class families are stuck,” Obama admitted. “Their wages and incomes are stagnant. They’ve
In a new Economist interview, President Barack Obama praised big corporations for embracing amnesty while blasting the Republican Party for opposing it. “Now,to their credit, I think on an issue like immigration reform, forexample, companies did step up,” said Obama.
In an interview with the Economist, President Barack Obama heralded his role in saving the U.S. economy. “Since I have come into office, there’s almost no economic metric by which you couldn’t say that the U.S. economy is better and
Middle class Americans are poorer today than they were in 1984. As Slate reported on Thursday, an analysis by the Russel Sage Foundation finds that median household wealth in 2013 was 20% less than it was in 1984. According to
Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is considering hedge fund, private equity, and big bank job offers that could bag him over $1 million a year, reports Politico. “There are two famous streets in America that would be glad to
A newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that the Obama administration’s disastrous management of the construction of the Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers $840 million. That figure could climb even higher, as entire sections of the Obamacare website,
A new poll conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Obamacare is more unpopular than ever. Just 37% of Americans say they support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement. Worse for Obama
Former U.S. Sens. John Breaux (D-LA) and Trent Lott (R-MS), who recently merged with international law giant Squire Patton Boggs, say they are excited to leverage their crony lobbying contacts globally on behalf of the world’s highest corporate bidders. “Now
Justice Department data obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday reveal that the Obama administration’s plan to reduce America’s prison population has sparked five times as many inmate applications for early release as the year prior. Since April, 3,300 federal
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher went on a bizarre rant Friday against conservatives for having an “unshakable” belief in free markets, which Maher says is in error because big business and Washington have snuffed out competition by engaging in
General Motors Co. announced on Wednesday six new recalls for 717,950 U.S. vehicles, bringing its 2014 total recalls to 29 million worldwide, 25.7 million of which have been in the United States. That works out to more recalls worldwide than
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden declared that America’s jobs picture is brighter than ever. “Businesses are hiring at historic rates, with 52 consecutive months of net private sector job growth,” said Biden in the newly released report supporting the
