Worries about the quality of Russia’s Sochi winter Olympics seemed to be well founded as one of the giant Olympic rings light displays failed to deploy during the Friday opening ceremony. Five enormous snowflakes dropped from the ceiling over a
Just when you thought Obamacare couldn’t get any worse, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported on Tuesday that the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs will be lost due to Obamacare. We can’t afford to lose any more jobs. These numbers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is temporarily banning all liquids, aerosols, gels and powders on flights between Russia and the United States, ABC News reported on Thursday.
On Wednesday, it took me around 45 minutes and cost £40 ($65) in a London black cab to traverse the three miles between Victoria train station and Gray’s Inn Road in London. Those familiar with the city will realize I
Colorado is expected to bring in $100 million in new tax revenue generated by the newly legal marijuana industry. This represents almost three times as much tax revenue as through alcohol, which fetched about $39 million for the Centennial State.
Twitter’s shares have taken a great big 25 percent dump, which is the equivalent of losing $9.8 billion in market value, after the social media company stated that there was a “sharp slowdown in user growth.” Reuters reported this: The
A University of California, Berkeley professor is requiring 100 students to create Twitter accounts and post comments about “Islamophobia,” anti-Islamist Muslim activist Tarek Fatah reports. In his Toronto Sun column Wednesday, Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, describes the “panicked message” he
(Reuters) – Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Scientists who studied DNA preserved in Arctic permafrost sediments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is warning airlines flying to Russia that terrorists may try to smuggle explosives on board hidden in toothpaste tubes. The threat is to airlines that have direct flights to Russia, including some that
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Wednesday discussed “disturbing” trends in Russia with previously jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, prompting Moscow’s U.N. envoy to ask if she was joining
The British government spends hundreds of millions of pounds a year effectively lobbying itself, a new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has revealed. The Sock Doctrine, published Wednesday by the IEA, reveals how the British government, at
A plurality of Russians believe the cost of the Sochi Games has soared due to widespread corruption. The Levada Research Group poll found that “47 percent of people believed the cost of hosting the Games, widely expected to pass $50
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) – Irked by stories of unfinished hotels just days before the Sochi Olympics are due to start, the owners of one major complex took reporters on a three-hour tour on Wednesday to prove they were ready
Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator, has publicly stated that he wishes for the European super-state to be able to remove not just websites that promote illegal content, but also those which he calls “undesirable.” The statement from
Allegheny County, PA Sheriff Bill Mullen says that in 2013 his office “issued more concealed-carry gun permits than ever before.” According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mullen’s “office issued 20,708 permits to carry a concealed weapon in 2013.” This marks “a
The European Union has admitted to spending £65,000 ($105,000) on propaganda aimed at convincing Londoners over the importance of the European super-state, just months before European elections. The four-page spreads in the Evening Standard, as well as the Independent and
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan ‘peace process’ collapses on first day Corruption in Europe matches corruption in Washington Pakistan ‘peace process’ collapses on first day Tuesday was to be a “historic day” for Pakistan, for this was the
An overwhelming number of Midwestern business leaders support a pathway to citizenship for all of the country’s illegal immigrants even though a majority also concede that immigration reform will negatively impact the job security of American workers. A recent survey
Marijuana and hashish-infused edibles are back in vogue. The culinary phenomenon was portrayed with great humor in the 1968 cult film starring Peter Sellers, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. Now psychedelic edibles are on sale legally in Colorado, and they are
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) requested Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen withdraw a proposed regulation that they say stifles political speech by nonprofit organizations.
This winter has been one for the record books as temperatures in the lower 48 states have been lower than they have been even in Alaska, with the Frontier State being close to the warmest it’s been in 70 years.
Phyllis Schlafly writes at National Review Online: People come to America because it is a remarkable oasis of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Conservatives recognize that the principal reason for our unique abundance is our constitutional restraint on the power of
President Obama has put his political fortunes above the least among us by badgering Republicans in Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. In 1938, Congress first established the federal minimum and has periodically raised it to
With a deadline that many of those subpoenaed attempted to avoid looming, the New Jersey Legislature received its first round of documents related to its investigation of the bridge scandal threatening to engulf the Chris Christie administration. The legislative committee
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri picks sides among Syria’s jihadist terrorists Monday’s market plunge continues ‘that 1929 feeling’ Bitterness between U.S. and Israel increases as ‘peace process’ collapses Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri picks sides among Syria’s jihadist terrorists Al-Qaeda’s
