Faculty members at China’s Shanghai Jiaotong University have been linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unit allegedly at the center of cyber attacks against the U.S. and other Western commercial interests. The ties were discovered via “papers on computer
(Reuters) – The Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington’s fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling. The budget
Boeing announced on Friday that it will have to lay off 800 workers, which means the company will lay off 2,000-2,300 workers this year. While the 800 machinists had been slated to work on Boeing’s commercial aircraft, some of the other workers
Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success. Unfortunately for Americans who
Vaughn R. Walker, retired judge who overturned California’s Proposition 8 in 2010, asked attorneys who will be defending same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court next week if he could attend oral arguments, as revealed Friday morning in a series of
France’s economy fell off sharply in March indicating that the nation–whose annual growth was already predicted to be around 0.0% again this year–is about to enter it’s third recession since 2009. The new figures are bad news for socialist President
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Barack Obama and the ‘Mideast Roadmap to Peace’ Cognitive dissonance and the ‘Mideast Roadmap to Peace’ Cyprus nears collapse after EU issues an ultimatum Barack Obama and the ‘Mideast Roadmap to Peace’ Palestinians protest
Opponents of Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who are seeking to recall him have run out of money. According to the Arizona Republic, organizers of the campaign to recall Arpaio announced on Wednesday they will rely solely on volunteers
Matthew Key, the Reuters Editor who was arrested on charges of conspiring with hackers in defacing a Los Angeles Times story, denied the charges Tuesday. On his Facebook page Tuesday, Keys wrote: “I did not give a username and
U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, the man who killed 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, is not getting his wish to change the venue of his trial away from the base. A military judge ruled Wednesday that the
Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. “They had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed. They were devastated apparently…when the president backed off,
President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment–losses of up to 750,000 jobs–were exaggerated, say top economists. UBS projects federal payrolls will decline 100,000 annually. “The major flaw in sequester-related government job loss estimates
The Senate Democratic budget will increase America’s gross federal debt per household by more than $50,000 over the next decade, according to GOP Senate Budget Committee staff. Factored on a per-person basis, the gross debt increases from $53,937 today to
President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel hasn’t been perfect. He began with a gratuitous dig at his political opposition back home–a ritual of Obama’s foreign trips, as if he alone is exempt from the rule that “politics stops at the
Haifa, Israel – If jihadi groups fighting to topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad succeed, “[i]t’s us afterwards,” warned Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. General Benny Gantz during a conference last week. “We could be the next challenge for
On Monday, the City of San Bernadino approved $1M in pay hikes. The city filed bankruptcy on August 1 of last year. San Bernadino is forced to grant these pay hikes on account of its city charter that dictates
House Republicans are standing strong in their pursuit of Operation Fast and Furious documents, The Hill’s Jordy Yager reports, undercutting a narrative the Department of Justice has tried to seep into the media. President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege over
While California suffers through a nation-high 9.8 percent unemployment rate, a state budget debt of $34 billion, and $766 billion in unfunded liabilities, Democrat-appointed officials have okayed borrowing another $8.6 billion to begin work on the state’s vaunted high-speed rail.
Cypriot bank patrons say they were stunned and outraged by the unprecedented announcement of a possible one-time confiscation of up to 9.9% of ordinary savings accounts as part of Cyprus’s €10bn ($13 billion) eurozone bailout deal. “Nobody can understand how
Contrary to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) contention that the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) “is consistent with the Second Amendment” and “would not require new domestic regulations” to hamper the exercise of the rights therein, the reality is that if
Star Tribune: SAN FRANCISCO – News agency Reuters has suspended with pay a deputy social media editor after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary deployed tanks to reach thousands of motorists trapped in heavy snow on Friday as a sudden cold snap and high winds struck parts of the Balkans, Slovakia and Poland, leaving at least two people dead. Snow
By PAUL ELIAS and GARANCE BURKEAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCOA deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be “business as usual” despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pope Francis may side with Argentina in Falklands dispute with Britain Venezuela’s Maduro says that Chávez picked the Pope Venezuela won’t be embalming Chávez, after all As Egypt deteriorates, what will the army do?
On Thursday, Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal unveiled a proposal that would eliminate the state’s income tax and the corporate franchise tax by raising the state’s sales tax to 5.88 percent from 4 percent. The proposal also calls for increasing the cigarette tax to
