Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have “each contributed $25,000” to Washington’s Initiative 594, which would effectively ban private gun sales in the state. The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR) is pushing the initiative, claiming it “makes
President Barack Obama got plenty of aid from Hollywood during the 2012 election cycle in terms of both money and promotion, but he still needs their help. It seems his signature health care reform, ObamaCare, isn’t polling too well as
The medical licenses of two abortionists in Maryland have been suspended following the death of Maria Santiago, a 38-year old woman who stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest while she was left unattended immediately after her abortion in February. The
An international conference on maternal health that will feature HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Melinda Gates as speakers, has also tapped euthanasia advocate Peter Singer and late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart to train family planning supporters. C-FAM, an international pro-family organization,
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into politics has gone about as smoothly as his company’s IPO. His advocacy group, which seeks the passage of immigration legislation, stumbled out of the gates by falsely claiming Bill Gates was on its board.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
The second richest person on the planet, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has used the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $37 billion to fund philanthropic interests the world over. But Gates’s investment of $173 million to shape and promote a uniform
Below is the third part of an interview series with “Wiseguy” actor Ken Wahl … Gary Graham: I’ve heard said that the Liberals have taken over the Media, the Hollywood community, and Academia. Ken Wahl: Absolutely. What’s left …? Graham: Talk
The 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, to be held on July 11, is intended to “mobilize global policy” to assure that 120 million women and girls are afforded family planning, contraceptives and other information. Sponsors of the event want more
President Obama’s latest campaign e-mail may not be his most effective, but it’s certainly his most ironic. In it, he essentially admits that while nobody will support him thanks to his accomplishments, they should do so because he stands for
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has withdrawn its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a report by the liberal corporate free speech police site, Republic Report: Republic Report’s Suzanne Merkelson covered how the Bill and Melinda
US President Barack Obama called Saturday for higher tax rates on wealthy Americans, saying the current system of tax breaks for top income earners was unfair. He pointed out that under the current system people like billionaire investor Warren Buffett
CNN’s Gloria Borger’s thinking is so caught up in the liberal paradigm of “class,” as in class warfare, she sees everything in that light, while projecting it onto the right to provide cover for Obama’s use of class warfare. Evidently,
This past weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United. Protesters, dubbed Occupy the Courts, gathered at the Court to voice their disapproval of the decision: [youtube FJxMmqTWcNE] As Institute for Justice campaign finance
To the extent that the Occupy Wall Street crowd has a core cause, it is an economic one. However, its title and location are the only real clues, because when it comes to demonstrating their vast economic knowledge, these people
If there’s one thing about the Marxists controlling today’s unions, it is that they are predictable. If you watch them long enough, the pattern is always the same: Demand the extreme with something attainable in mind as the fallback position.
Bill Gates spoke with Christiane Amanpour on ABC News’ This Week.
In July of 2010, Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank bill into law. Forcing this unpopular piece of legislation upon the American people was akin to tossing a hand grenade of regulation into the banking industry and ducking to avoid the
Bill Gates of Microsoft fame (or infamy) visited the Claremont Colleges this past week. You can watch that visit here. What follows is a transcript typed by one of my associates of that event. Gates, after discussing his foundation’s work,
The world is backwards. It should be the taxpayers striking in the streets of Wisconsin. But, private sector taxpayers can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesn’t that say everything? Only government employees with their powerful
American Federation of Teachers’ President Randi Weingarten has been doing her best to make sure Big Labor has a say in education reform. She wants to drive the train. The National Education Association, on the other hand, is taking the
(CNSNews.com) – The CEO and Chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates said that capitalism’s “systemic” problems are not doing enough for research and “the needs of the poorest.” “In general, the world under funds research because the person who takes the
Last week, I highlighted nine ballot initiatives that were worth watching because of their policy implications and/or their role is showing whether voters wanted more or less freedom. The results, by and large, are very encouraging. Let’s take a look
California’s progressive-era experiment in direct democracy was supposed to elevate the voters above the special interests, allowing voters make law themselves through the statewide initiative process. That this process is now virtually owned by the special interests is yet another
On the heels of this Summer’s Old Media attack of News Corp’s donation of $1 million to the GOP, we discover that billionaire Bill Gates of Microsoft fame has given $1.5 million directly to ABC News so that they’ll cover
So here are some poll numbers that should scare the low-waisted chaps off Democrats. By a 50-42 margin, Ohio voters say they’d rather have George W. Bush as President right now than Barack Obama. Also, among voters in Gallup weekly
Slate’s Jacob Weisberg came unhinged on Friday and gave the country the finger. “Down with the People!” he screams from Bill Gates lap. As Jacob sees it, we the people are demanding two mutually exclusive things: premium government services and
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AP: President Barack Obama sees his secretary of defense just about every day, but he still flubbed Robert Gates’ name on Thursday. Gates was in the crowd for Obama’s national security speech. Pointing him out, the president said “William Gates”
True story: Bill Gates — yes, that Bill Gates — released a swarm of mosquitos at a technology conference. He did it (or so he claims) to demonstrate how malaria spreads. Reportedly, he waited a minute or two before he
CNET: Microsoft co-founder Gates, who last appeared at TED in 1992, outlined his hopes for better teachers and reducing mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria. He is concerned that the current economic crisis will mean reduced funding for poorer countries. And as