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Nominee for Ambassador to Argentina Has Never Been to Argentina

Nominee for Ambassador to Argentina Has Never Been to Argentina

Obama’s nominee for Ambassador to Argentina has never been to Argentina, but he did “[raise] half a million dollars for President Barack Obama and Democrats.” When Noah Bryson Mamet testified before Congress following his nomination, he responded to questions about

Electronic leashes for the wayward employee

Well, this isn’t creepy at all: Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business

Heroin Use on the Rise

Heroin Use on the Rise

The recent overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has served as a catalyst for coverage of the recent wave of bad heroin that has swept across the country and Hoffman isn’t the only one to have died from its use.

2016 Poll: Hillary Clinton Clobbers Jeb Bush

2016 Poll: Hillary Clinton Clobbers Jeb Bush

Though former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is often hailed by the Republican establishment as the best candidate to take on Hillary Clinton in a potential 2016 general election contest for president, Clinton clobbers Bush by 20 percentage points in

Chris Christie Takes Pounding in Polls After Pair of Scandals

Chris Christie Takes Pounding in Polls After Pair of Scandals

Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has taken a beating in the polls since his administration was rocked by the “Bridgegate” and Hurricane Sandy scandals.  Before the pair of scandals hit in January, Christie led Clinton by two percentage points and the Republican presidential

Poll: Majority Believe Obama's Policies Will Fail

Poll: Majority Believe Obama's Policies Will Fail

A new national survey has found that a majority of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s policies will fail, even though a majority actually want them to succeed.  According to a CNN/ORC poll released on Monday, 56% of Americans believe Obama’s

Obama: Congress's Job to Change Pot Laws

Obama: Congress's Job to Change Pot Laws

On Friday, President Barack Obama, who has admitted that during college he used marijuana and sometimes “a little blow,” told CNN that it is Congress’s job to remove marijuana from the government’s list of serious narcotics.  Although the president did