Barack Obama and his feminist friends have been trotting out their tiresome slogan that women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Every reputable scholar who has commented has proved this is a notorious falsehood which
The US, EU, Ukraine, and Russia agreed on steps to alleviate the situation in east Ukraine. Secretary of State John Kerry represented the US at the talks in Geneva, and the four attending diplomats released a statement identifying steps to
Two Washington D.C. homeless men were found dead on Wednesday due to what appears to be hypothermia. Tuesday night’s temperature plummeting to 34 degrees with a severe wind chill exacerbating the condition just may have been too much for victims
From the Daily Mail: As Rome prepares to celebrate its official 2,767th birthday, archeologists believe they have unearthed fresh secrets about the ancient city. They claim the discovery of a boundary wall of the river port of ancient Rome suggests
The good news from Nigeria that more than one hundred schoolgirls abducted by radical Islamist group Boko Haram did not last, as state authorities in the northeast of the country confirmed to Reuters that only fourteen of the girls had
On Wednesday, the U.S. Energy Department announced it will begin doling out $4 billion in taxpayer-funded loan aid to renewable energy companies. “We’re back in business,” Peter Davidson, executive director of the department’s loan programs office, told Reuters. “We really want to
From J. Christian Adams in PJ Media: Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents
To be naïve to the sensitivities of a particular community is forgivable; however, to turn a blind eye to a community’s deep-seated concerns when they are brought to your attention is shameful. This is precisely what happened in the City
A high-ranking UN official told students last week that they ought to take over UN buildings. Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of the billion-dollar UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said this to students gathered to participate in the UN Commission on
(Reuters) – The world economy can expect steady growth at best over the coming year, but any rapid slowdown in China as it tries to rebalance its economy could upset the still-unsteady progress, Reuters polls showed.
The financial press went all “rainbows, butterflies and unicorns” with headlines like “Retail Sales Sizzle in March” over the supposedly strong retail sales report just released. Unfortunately for average Americans, their spending growth after inflation has been declining at a
While the civil war in Syria is between Bashar al-Assad’s Alwaite regime and the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels, the neutral Christian and Druze minorities in Damascus are paying a high price. Regime forces are using Christians and Druze neighborhoods as a
Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Russia might sue the US in World Trade Organization (WTO) court because of sanctions placed against St. Petersburg’s Bank Rossiya, which is President Vladimir Putin’s preferred bank. “The WTO gives us some additional possibilities,”
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg will not be pursuing a carbon tax on consumer fuels as he had announced in February. Instead he will be allocating billions of dollars from California’s greenhouse gas reduction law, otherwise known as Cap
The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) just reported that United States “proven reserves” of crude oil in 2012 jumped by 15.4% to 29.2 billion barrels. This new official level is only about 13% of the declared reserves of Saudi Arabia.
As the IRS targeting scandal grew, in an effort to help the taxing agency put an end to political activism, government operatives decided it was necessary to put more limits on what tax-exempt organizations were allowed to do. However, the
The United Nations Human Rights Council found the ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in east Ukraine are stretching the truth when they claim mistreatment. The UN found a few attacks to be true, but otherwise found nothing of significance. “Although
By now, it’s a cliche that the Internet of Things is going to change everything. That’s right: Americans have barely had time to digest all the effects of the Internet, and now comes along the Internet of Things (IoT). If the Internet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will speak in South Carolina on Tuesday at The Citadel in Charleston. He will speak at an annual awards dinner for the Free Enterprise Foundation, which is based at The Citadel, according
On April 11th, the owner of Hardy Nix Jewelry in Antioch, California, shot and killed one of two burglars attempting a late afternoon robbery. According to the San Jose Mercury News, 20-year-old David Carter and an accomplice entered the store
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police charged a man on Tuesday for the murder of his 2-year-old son after he confessed to suffocating the child so he could leave the house to go back to playing games at an Internet
A Ukrainian general leading a new push against pro-Kremlin militants in the separatist east warned on Tuesday that gunmen who do not lay down their arms would be “destroyed”.
On April 12th a man attempting to invade a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, home with a machete was met by a homeowner with a gun. According to CBS42.com, the homeowner and his wife “were eating breakfast” when they saw 21-year-old Daniel Pearman
The deadly virus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), has seen a surge of cases reported throughout Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the entire Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported that the UAE announced six confirmed
*UPDATED Following remarks Senate Majority leader Harry Reid made at the University of Nevada, Reno on Monday, the Nevada Democrat told Reno’s KRNV TV his thoughts on the cattle controversy in Gold Butte. “Well, it’s not over. We can’t have
