Last month, the US Postal Service quietly posted a “request for information” on a government website asking for help in designing a more efficient package delivery system. Its chief competitors, UPS and FedEx, have been using a system called “dynamic
You have to read this Reuters piece to believe it. The determination to put the worst possible spin on everything this brilliant and compassionate uniter accomplished during his short tenure as Pope is breathtaking. Most ridiculous is Reuters’ premise that
I often wonder if my mother has ever read any of the posts on the thousands of Mommyblogs out there. With germs and supposedly unsafe products around every corner, you’d think the only way to keep your kid alive is
Colorado Democrats are prepared to launch an all-out war on guns with legislation that includes bans on “high capacity” magazines, requirements for universal background checks, fees for existing background checks, and allowing victims of gun violence to sue firearm manufacturers for the
A utility worker and homeowner both defended themselves in separate incidents with their guns against teenagers who tried to rob them. In Detroit, MI two teens, 16-and 17-year old brothers, tried to rob two men working on a public lighting
In response to 420 For the GOP: Iowahawk, I totally agree. And in the famous words of Andre 3,000, “Marijuana illegal but cigarettes cool, I might look kinda funny but I ain’t no fool.” The GOP should take Cuccinelli’s lead.
Former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will form a bipartisan group with high-profile Republicans and Democrats to find solutions to the country’s immigration problem. Rice will join forces with Haley Barbour, the former Republican Mississippi governor
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has assured Americans in the past that he is entirely pro-freedom. But his actions belie his words. From gun control to soda control, Bloomberg has become the face of the Nanny State. Now that Nanny Statism has
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who is leaving his post, is confessing that the roads of America are crumbling because there simply isn’t enough money in the government’s coffers to fix them. LaHood said, “America is one big pothole right now.
California, the top-rated gun control state according to the Brady Campaign, has some of the strictest laws in the nation with regard to background checks. But when it comes time to enforce those laws – when law enforcement has the
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who is the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt’s capital Cairo since the 1979 Iranian revolution, spoke of a reconciliation between the two formerly contentious countries. He is trying to normalize relations that have been
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer told Breitbart News that the facts don’t all add up in New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s story when it comes to his reimbursement of flights aboard a Democratic mega-donor’s private jet. Spicer specifically
Wednesday evening, a blog report circulated claiming Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO’s Girls, did not vote in the 2012 election, based on a survey of New York City voting records. However, Ms. Dunham’s publicist contested the claim. The
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) — The U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday announced additional sanctions aimed at limiting Iran’s access to oil revenues and punishing its censorship activities. The sanctions, announced Wednesday, target the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian financial
In response to Same Guy Assassinating Americans Without Due Process…: But he says it’s “safe, legal and rare.” Whoops! I mean…..”legal, ethical, and wise.” This WaPo piece was written by Bush’s former speech writer, Marc Thiessen, last May, eight months
Hours after slamming the death of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was shot to death at a gun range last weekend in Texas, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul issued a Facebook statement to clarify his earlier remarks. Paul had earlier tweeted, “Chris
Monday, business icon Donald Trump filed a $5 million lawsuit in California against liberal talk show host Bill Maher. On Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,” Mr. Maher committed to donate $5 million to charity in exchange for Mr. Trump producing documentation
According to the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, the Obama Department of Justice will be suing it over their mortgage bond rating practices in the run-up to the 2008 financial collapse. As the news of the lawsuit broke, stock
Last week, a bomb went off in the news media. But the media’s own version of the Blue Wall of Silence held together again, which allowed the media to pretend nothing happened. Some in conservative media noticed and reported on
Jesse Jackson, a resident of Chicago, joined other Chicagoans who have lost relatives to gunfire in stating that in order for the deadly rate of shootings in Chicago to be abated, Barack Obama needs to pay a visit to his hometown.
Earlier today, as I hadn’t seen the tweets from Obama’s camp saying he was shooting on August 4th of last year, I checked the pic’s Exif data on Flickr–a great feature they include for photo wonks to see the aperture,
Heartwarming education news from America’s most exclusive institution of higher learning: 125 Harvard students have been implicated for cheating on a class exam, leading to the expulsion of as many as 60. And, to the astonishment of absolutely nobody, the class was…
In a desperate attempt to get California’s budgetary nightmares under control, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown pushed for a tax hike plan last November to increase the state’s overall tax rate on millionaires to the highest in the nation at 13.3%.
(Reuters) – An explosion at a side entrance to the U.S. embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara killed at least one person and wounded several others on Friday and Turkish state media cited witnesses as saying was the attack was
A little noticed news story this week caught my eye and caused me toreflect again upon information warfare as a growing concern in today’s world. Second Twitter hoax in two days smacks another stock Two companies fell victim in the
