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US stocks waver as emergency call on Europe starts

By CHRISTINA REXRODEAP Business WriterNEW YORKAs U.S. stocks struggled for direction, world finance leaders struggled for a way out of Europe’s mounting debt crisis. Major market indexes ricocheted between small gains and losses in morning trading and were little changed

US stocks waver as emergency call on Europe starts

Outside View: U.S. Work Force Shrinks

COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 4 (UPI) —The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April — much less than expected and not enough to keep up with natural population growth. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent because another 522,000 adults

Outside View: U.S. Work Force Shrinks

Will MSNBC's Maddow Excuse Occupy Bomb Plot?

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow repeatedly tried to smear the Tea Party movement with the allegation that it caused violence. See this NewsBusters report—or this Mediaite item for two of the many, many times she pushed the theme. In the latter case,

Will MSNBC's Maddow Excuse Occupy Bomb Plot?

'Occupy May Day': Factions Plan Violent Disruptions

NO WORK – NO SCHOOL – NO SHOPPING – NO BANKING – NO TRADING!  THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS! That’s the rallying cry for today’s Occupy May Day General Strike, in which the Occupy movement has called

'Occupy May Day': Factions Plan Violent Disruptions

The Latest News from the Wisconsin Recall Elections

Here’s the latest from the oft times unbelievable Wisconsin recall saga.  The State Board overseeing the election is only looking for duplicate signatures and obvious fake names on the recall petitions (thanks to a court order), and they are going

'Watchmen' Creator Joins Occupy Comics

Alan Moore, the mind behind iconic graphic novels like “Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta,” is joining a new comics lineup that will be creating “art and stories inspired by the protesters,” according to Deadline.com. He joins his “V For Vendetta”

The Triangulation of the 'Occupy' Movement

Throughout the painful and paradoxical existence of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) we have been told by those in the mainstream media, as well as by sympathetic politicos, that at its root, at its genesis, the OWS Movement was both organic

So Much to Love About Mila Kunis

Ed. Note: Greg’s piece was written before Kunis killed the rumor (see below) that she might back out of Sgt. Scott Moore’s invitation. —– So I love Mila Kunis for two very good reasons. First off: she accepted the invitation

Journey to 'Fear of a Black Republican'

Being a filmmaker who happens to be Republican, I had long considered making a documentary about why there are so few Republicans where I live and what that means in a city with an African American-majority population and Democratic Party-controlled

Bunker Mode: Pelosi Under Siege

[klaxon sounds] NANCY PELOSI: Red Alert! Damn! Get to your stations, people. Moving to DEFCON 1–imminent loss of the House. Steny–what’s happening? HOYER: [points to computer screen] Look here, Commander: concession rumors, rising in the blogosphere. We’re shooting them down

Hollywood Feminism: Celebrity Nipple Nazis

In case you missed it, August was “National Breastfeeding Month.” I find it incredible that so many celebrity moms banded together to tell women how to raise their babies and no one really took notice. We should be thankful that

Obama in Outer Space on Tax Day

On the issues that matter most, the president is always somewhere else. Exhibit A) For most Americans, the economy is the most pressing issue. We just got last week’s jobs report, and it wasn’t good. For the second week in

The American Revolution…REBOOTED!

If I had a dollar for every time some tool during the health care debate brought up how “we’re the only industrialized” nation in the world without socialized health care I’d have a lot of money. Why, I could even

Common Sense vs. the CBO on ObamaCare

Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill would require employers above a certain size to provide health insurance for their workers or face some sort of penalty. The House bill that passed last month would require

INTERVIEW: Former Miss California Carrie Prejean

Apart from the fact that she’s a smoking hot California babe and I’m a 47-year-old mother of two teenage sons, Carrie Prejean and I do have some things in common. We’re both from San Diego. We both attend The Rock,

The Rise and Fall of ObamaMarketing

In the summer of 2008, I noticed something I’d never seen before. All around midtown Manhattan, on various sidewalks, people were selling cheap plastic trinkets out of open briefcases propped atop folding tray tables. To anyone who’s spent any time