The federal government has had three and a half years to build its Obamacare insurance exchanges, yet just nine states will have fully functioning exchanges tomorrow upon Obamacare’s national grand opening, reports the Washington Post. “With the launch deadline mere
On Monday, the House announced that it would pass a third Continuing Resolution to keep government open past Monday’s midnight deadline. The announcement came soon after the Senate rejected the House CR that would delay ObamaCare for one year. The
(AP) Senate clears bill to pay military in shutdownBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has adopted a bill to pay members of the military in case the government shuts down. The unanimous voice vote Monday sends the legislation to the White
Former President Bill Clinton recently parroted a line that President Barack Obama likes to drag out whenever the debt ceiling deadline looms–that Congress must “pay its bills.” It is one of the most cynical and insidious lies in American politics
UPDATE: The House voted 231-192 to keep the government open and delay Obamacare. Harry Reid has said that the Senate will reject the measure. ** On Saturday, House GOP Leadership announced plans to take up the Senate stop-gap spending bill and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled four votes Friday afternoon to complete the Senate’s work on the Continuing Resolution. Once the Senate passes the CR and sends it back to the House, Senators will leave DC for the weekend.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) dismissed reports that as the Obamacare implementation deadline looms, businesses in the United States are cutting hours for more employees or going through rounds of layoffs. When asked by Breitbart News how these businesses
Michael Douglas got into the spirit of Liberace’s private life while accepting his Emmy for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra Sunday night. Douglas played the flamboyant, and closeted, entertainer in the HBO biopic, and when he won the Emmy for
The Obama administration proposed new regulations on Friday that would limit carbon pollution from new power plants. According to the Associated Press: The proposal, which would set the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, is intended to help reshape where
Another Obamacare deadline is looming, this time for individuals who hire part-time workers to do domestic work at a residence. The New York based certified public accounting firm Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP (MWE) notified its clients recently: We are
In October the personal account of the Benghazi attacks by Sergeant Morgan Jones will be published by Simon & Schuster, but before that happens the book has already been optioned for a movie. The book, The Embassy House, The Explosive
Thursday’s Los Angeles Times reports that the very first deadline created under the U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons has already hit a snag. This weekend, Syria is expected to submit a full inventory of its chemical weapons and
By NAHAL TOOSIAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAfghanistan’s presidential race kicked off Monday as election authorities began accepting the nominations of would-be candidates, the start of a wide-open race whose winner will oversee the final phases of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops amid
Teachers in Kenosha, Wisconsin have voted to decertify their union, putting a halt to the organization’s ability to bargain with the state on behalf of educators. Kenosha teachers took advantage of the opportunity to jettison the union after Governor Scott
(AP) Voters slam Weiner, Spitzer comebacksBy JONATHAN LEMIRE and LARRY NEUMEISTERAssociated PressNEW YORKIt was perhaps a fitting end to an Anthony Weiner mayoral run that couldn’t seem to escape a sexting scandal.Outside a “victory” party where supporters mourned a disappointing
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein The fifth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers is generating a lot of comment, mostly of the sort that blames the largest banks for
(AP) Ortiz leads Red Sox to 20-4 romp over TigersBy JIMMY GOLENAP Sports WriterBOSTONOne after another, the baseballs cleared the fences at Fenway Park _ a franchise record-tying eight home runs in all for the Boston Red Sox. And David
President Barack Obama’s plan to conduct punishing military strikes on Syria passed its first congressional hurdle Wednesday, paving the way for full Senate debate on the use of force. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed an amended resolution 10-7, with
Wars even when won are losers for the economy, and in a weakened economy a bigger loser. September and October 2013 are huge months with lots of deadlines: Debt ceiling Obamacare Syria Budget deadline Benghazi, fast and furious, IRS, NSA
While California desperately tries to keep film and TV production in-state, Hollywood’s production companies are raking in the dough elsewhere. Michigan’s film office has announced it will offer $35 million to Warner brothers for shooting parts of Man of Steel
The 2013/14 version of Saturday Night Live will look rather familiar, even though several of the show’s long-time players have left the late night series. SNL guru Lorne Michaels just added five fresh faces to the mix, but once more the
The film studio 20th Century Fox is getting into journalism via the cineplex. The company joined forces with the online platform Epic to create “film-centric, investigative long-form journalism,” the kind media outlets once cranked out with regularity. Deadline.com’s report doesn’t
By COREY WILLIAMSAssociated PressDETROITBanks, bond insurers, employee pension systems and others standing to lose big if a federal judge declares Detroit insolvent are expected to legally file their objections to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Monday is the
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which is slated to finish number one at the box office, grossing some $25 million over the weekend, is expected to finish behind other recent films about America’s racial past, including 42 and The Help. The
Predicting that the new Al Jazeera America news network will experience a “rolling success,” the soon-to-launch network’s American chief, Kate O’Brien, insisted that the network is just what America is looking for. At the same time, interim CEO Ehab Al
Since being hired last December, Gus Malzahn has promised a “New Day” for the Auburn Tigers who, at 3-9 last season, somehow managed to actually play worse than their woeful record, getting blown out by most SEC foes. For the
Beginning Saturday morning, Fox Sports 1 can be found on channels such as AT&T U-verse 2/651 (2nd number is HD), Campus Cable 72, Comcast 3/242, Charter 38, Dish Network 150, Direct TV 219 and Time Warner Cable 512/1512. Viewers can
Today Darrell Issa sent a letter to Lois Lerner on behalf of the Oversight Committee requesting copies of any emails sent to a private account labeled “Lois Home.” Here is an excerpt from the letter which was first noted by
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 (UPI)–Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures says Brad Pitt’s zombie apocalypse film “World War Z” has passed the $500 million worldwide gross milestone. The figure surpasses the $497.3 million of “Troy” to become Pitt’s highest grossing film ever, Deadline.com
Even as the newly merged SAG-AFTRA actors union grew its debt by millions, Executive Director David White’s pay has been raised 15 percent to $541,000 annually. A recent 448-page financial report confirms the hike in White’s pay but also reports
Director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 hauled in $37 million during its opening weekend four years ago, despite a no-name cast, tiny budget and zero brand awareness. This weekend Blomkamp’s pricey, star-filled follow-up couldn’t even match that amount. Elysium, a film
CNN came under fire Friday for airing a photo posted to Facebook of the bloody body of a young Florida woman allegedly killed by her husband. The photo of the body of Jennifer Alfonso led the CNN report on her
Nelson Cruz was in the middle of a great season for the Texas Rangers, leading the team in both home runs (27) and RBIs (76), then the Biogenesis scandal broke. Cruz was among 13 active MLB players who were handed
Former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler has been announced as the new anchor for Al Jazeera America’s evening newscast, which starts August 20. Siegenthaler said of his hiring,”I’m proud to join a respected worldwide news organization that is committed to
ObamaCare requires that the government know Americans’ financial, medical, and employment information. This data should be private, yet the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says that the Obama administration has
President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to spread his spin on the economy and other matters in an entertainment-heavy venue. He also used his trip to the West Coast, where the show is taped, to
Lot of the unexpected at this weekend’s box office report. Early predictions were that “Smurfs 2” would rule at somewhere around $30 million-plus and that the Denzel Washington/Mark Wahlberg comedy-action pic “2 Guns” would post a respectable $20 million. Now
George Clooney is angry at a Sony stockholder who wants heads to roll for the studio’s under-performing summer tentpoles After Earth and White House Down. The Oscar-winner lashed out at both the stockholder, Daniel Loeb, and hedge fund managers in
Comedian W. Kamau Bell told a pack of television reporters what the role of white people should be in cases like the George Zimmerman trial. The liberal host of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, who once announced that
It became crystal clear today that the next Oscars ceremony won’t feature a refrain from We Saw Your Boobs. Ellen DeGeneres, the popular daytime talker, will be hosting the 2014 Academy Awards telecast. The gig marks a return assignment for
