President Barack Obama is so unpopular among the electorate that the White House is reportedly letting Democrats know there will be no ramifications if they run against Obama. According to a CNN report, “understanding full well Obama’s unpopularity is a
According to two new polls, trust in the Democratic Party has hit a 30-year low. A new Washington Post/ABC poll conducted last week finds that that only 39 percent of respondents have a favorable view of the Democrat Party with
Does the Boeing Corporation really need the U.S. Export-Import Bank? Few would know the answer to that question better than Kostya Zolotusky, Boeing’s managing director for capital markets and leasing, or so you would think. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Government,
Reading the political tea leaves, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Democrat Party is coming up short for 2014 on all the points the Party had won voters with in 2008 and 2012. The biggest loss that Democrats have
HOUSTON, Texas — The first person to contract Ebola in the U.S., a female nurse, is being treated at Dallas’ Texas Presbyterian Hospital but her dog remained in her apartment for over 24 hours following her diagnosis. It is possible that the
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HOUSTON, Texas — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that we need to “rethink” Ebola, and how to stop the spreading of the deadly virus. CDC Director Tom Frieden reportedly said, “We have to
On top of news that a healthcare worker in Texas has now been diagnosed with Ebola, a patient in Boston who had recently been in Liberia is now being watched closely for signs of of the deadly virus. A man
A 47-year-old man has been hospitalized in Brazil and quarantined, suspected of having brought the Ebola virus from Guinea into South America. He is the first suspected case of the Ebola virus surfacing on the continent. According to the Wall
TUCSON, Arizona — On October 7, the Wall Street Journal published a story that stated the vast majority of migrants who recently entered the US illegally are showing up for their scheduled deportation hearings. Specifically, it said between July 18
A dramatic new political advertisement underscoring the plight of unemployed Millennial voters is taking aim at vulnerable Democratic senators who aligned themselves with President Barack Obama’s economic policies. The ad, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, takes a striking new approach
Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety endorsed several candidates for federal office to make Congress more gun-control-friendly in the November 2014 elections, most of whom are incumbents. Of the 78 the group endorsed, 68 are incumbents, who offer no change whatsoever. According
For the first two years after Meg Whitman became the crisis CEO at Hewlett-Packard (HP) in late 2011, she had tofight off investor pressure constantly to break-up the company by spinning off its consumer-driven personal computer and printer businesses to
“Like a lot of things in life,” said Al Capone (Robert DeNiro) in David Mamet’s script for The Untouchables, “we laugh because it’s funny, and we laugh because it’s true.” That explains the little waves of titters and giggles, and
GOP establishment strategist and talking head Karl Rove conspicuously omitted illegal immigration in his advice to GOP Senate candidates on how to close the sale to voters in this year’s midterm elections. In a column in the Wall Street Journal,
PIMCO has acknowledged that $23.5 billion of investors’ cash was withdrawn last month. It is my estimate that at least $19 billion or more of the liquidations followed legendary Pacific Asset Management (PIMCO) bond manager Bill Gross out the door after he left
Despite a noticeably cool reception at the White House, everywhere else India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on his five day visit to the United States he was treated more like a pop star than the self-effacing 63-year old devout
The College Board, under President David Coleman, the “architect” of the Common Core standards, said in a statement last week that it “supports the actions taken by students in Jefferson County, Colo., to protest a school board member’s request to
Russian state media has developed a reputation for absurd interpretations of international news events that may shed unfavorable light on the control the Russian government has on expression and politics in the nation. The burgeoning protests in Hong Kong are
The federal government will be providing the funding for legal assistance benefiting some of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors recently apprehended illegally entering the United Sates. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that over the
Starting October 1st, Hong Kong celebrates two days of government holidays which will no doubt be the peak of the recent ‘Umbrella Revolution’. What started as a protest last Wednesday by university students in Hong Kong has now filled the
The Obama administration’s efforts to combat Ebola in west Africa by sending 3,000 military personnel to Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun, and while residents appear grateful and optimistic about the efforts, both infection and death tolls appear to be
For years, geologists, oil men, and environmentalists have warned that the amount of oil humanity can pull out of the ground can only decrease from what we are getting now–a concept called “peak oil.” But despite warnings that “peak oil”
On September 26, PIMCO’s Bill Gross resigned from the firm he built into a $2 trillion world class manager, in order to avoid what the Wall Street Journal described as his impending termination for the abusive treatment of employees. The
California ranks third in the U.S., behind Hawaii and New Jersey, with 1.1% of statewide electrical power production being generated by customer-sited solar panels. The driving force behind this growth has been the 30% federal investment tax credit, plus incentives
In what is being billed as yet another example of his hardline stance toward clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis has removed Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano from his post as Bishop of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay. This latest move
