On Thursday, while looking wistfully back at Obama’s first four years, NBC News accidentally did some actual reporting. In a First Read article that opened with the question, “Is the nation better off than it was four years ago,” senior
Gov. Jerry Brown is telling everyone that California’s state budget problems are “fixed” and predicting surpluses for years to come. It’s become sort of a tradition for the state to make rosy budget predictions and to then make downward revisions
In USA Today, Steve Deace has a satiric column thanking the people most responsible for cutting his paycheck 5% in 2013. He writes: “After all, who’s more qualified to talk about shared sacrifice than those who can vote themselves pay
A decision issued today by the 7th circuit Court of Appeals says collective bargaining reforms passed by Governor Scott Walker will stand. Act 10 was the controversial reform law passed in Wisconsin in 2011 after weeks of protests and stalling
The Washington Post seems a tad uncomfortable admitting that left-wingery, in the form of gun-grabbing, might have back-fired in ways that could only surprise effete, left-wing, Blue State-dwelling metrosexuals. Gun control debate may be driving higher sales LAS VEGAS — The United States
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is rolling out the welcome mat for New Yorkers who would like to keep their guns–and their money. Abbott used his campaign money to produce and place ads on media websites in New York City
Will the next President of Venezuela be Jewish? Hugo Chavez handily won reelection in October 2012 by a margin of 10 percentage points. However, just months later, Chavez languishes in a Cuban hospital, suffering from what is likely terminal cancer. Henrique Capriles, Chavez’s
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Thirty-four hostages and 15 of their al Qaeda-linked kidnappers were killed on Thursday in an air strike by the Algerian armed forces, Mauritania’s ANI news agency reported, citing one of the kidnappers holding captives at a desert gas field.
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) will not seek a 2014 rematch with Rep. Patrick Murphy, the Democrat who narrowly defeated him for a House seat in 2012. West, a Tea Party favorite, said he has his sights set on “something
Many of the hostages who were seized yesterday at the BP natural gas facility in Algeria have been killed, according to reports. Hostages from America, France, and Japan were among those taken, but there is no word on which ones
How much do the Democrats want to spend your money? They are submitting a bill to eradicate the debt ceiling. They are also accusing Republicans who want to keep the debt limit instead of jettisoning it of “weaponizing” the debt
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France launches ground campaign in Mali Islamist militants seize gas complex in Algeria, with dozens of hostages Britain prepares for a new Falklands war France launches ground campaign in Mali ‘In Amenas’ gas facility
It’s not your business model that sucks; it’s you that sucks. — Andrew Breitbart Just as we saw last week at the New York Times and Time Magazine, the mainstream media’s pro-Obama chickens are finally coming home to roost. The
On Jan. 15, the Supreme Court decided a somewhat quirky case about a floating house. Federal law vests exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts over maritime cases. As Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Court, maritime cases concern, “watercraft or
Mega retailer Wal-Mart says it will hire 100,000 newly discharged veterans over the next five years and will buy an additional $50 billion worth of U.S.-made products over the next ten years. The new effort, said Wal-Mart U.S. Chief Executive
(AP) Gingrich: GOP unwise to pick fight on debt limitWASHINGTONFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich says House Republicans are making a mistake by using the issue of increasing the borrowing limit to challenge President Barack Obama on spending issues. Gingrich tells
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Brazil urges quick Venezuelan election of Chávez dies Al-Qaeda rebels in Mali counterattack as France bombs Germany and Britain debate whether to join France in Mali Germany threatens to block a bailout of Cyprus,
(Reuters) – The silence is broken. For the first time in nearly seven years, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday spoke to a lawyer presenting a case during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. While his utterance was not in
Senator Hagel’s speech at Harvard in 2005 where he cautions against defense cuts…
On Monday, top Federal Reserve official Charles Evans said the U.S. economy is expected to grow 2.5% in 2013, a substantial shortfall from the 4.2% growth rate the Obama administration originally projected. Mr. Evans also stated that U.S. unemployment would
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com UN Security Council to meet Monday as France expands Mali air strikes U.S. provided technical support for France’s failed Somalia rescue attempt France on terror alert after challenging al-Qaeda on two fronts Israel reaffirms
Gun control is now a political campaign. This is bad for Democrats, and it could be really good for Republicans. When the Democrats misread the tea leaves in December and began clamoring for bans on “assault weapons,” 30 round magazines, semi-auto handguns
On Sunday, Reuters reported Fiat and Chrysler, which Fiat owns, are on the verge of signing an agreement to produce Jeeps in China, and they may make the announcement as early as Monday at the Detroit Auto Show: Italian carmaker Fiat and
Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), who clashed frequently with the Department of Defense throughout the first term of President George W. Bush, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and backed President Barack Obama’s nomination of former
On Friday, Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai agreed to make efforts at reconciliation with the Taliban. To this end, both men endorsed “the establishment of a Taliban political office in Qatar.” Their hope is to encourage insurgents to take part
