Chicago, Il. — From the moment you arrive at O’Hare International Airport, you realize that the annual convention of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is an economic windfall for the Windy City. ORD, which is 20 miles from the McCormick
33-year-old Tomas Eduardo Tovar, a performer from the U.S. known for singing about the drug trade, was shot in Mexico on May 29. According to the AFP, Tovar was a singer of “narco-corridos,” a music genre dedicated to glorifying the drug trade and narcotics trafficking.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s pending purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers has been the talk of the sports world for the past week. Much of the chatter has been focused on the team’s price tag; at $2 billion, the
The 2014 reboot of biblical thriller Left Behind has finally released a full-length trailer, almost two years after news initially broke that Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage would star in the film. The trailer for the movie, set to be released in October
Everything might be bigger in Texas, but that does not mean everything is more expensive. According to data from the Council for Community and Economic Research’s (C2ER) 2014 Cost of Living Index, three of the nation’s 10 cheapest cities are in the
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he has no regrets about demanding President Obama’s records. ‘Not even a little bit,” Trump said Tuesday at the National Press Club when asked if he regretted questioning Obama’s citizenship. “I don’t regret it.
In response to Google commemorates environmental hysteria and mass killing: To add insult to injury, Google was slow to commemorate Memorial Day, yesterday, sparking outrage among many of their online users. Late in the day, Monday, the company finally added a
After five years of the federal government telling the public that despite a $3.5 trillion increase in monetary expansion, the inflation rate is below +2%, the Department of Agriculture (DOA) just warned the American public that the consumer price index
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists funded 321 deals in the first quarter of 2014, up 9% from last year and the highest rate since the peak of 347 in 2007. Despite terrible investment returns in the past, the fastest growing area
The federal government, at the behest of radical environmentalists, has decided over the past few years that flushing fresh water out to the Pacific Ocean in a test to save a fish was a higher priority than providing that same
Former Chinese mining magnate Liu Han and his brother have been sentenced to death in China for allegedly running a corrupt “mafia-style” organization that “carried out a vast number of criminal activities,” including murder. Liu has denied all such charges.
If memory serves correctly, Mark Cuban was one of the people made a bit uneasy by the Donald Sterling auto-da-fe, wondering where the crusade against impure thoughts would end. Well, now he knows it doesn’t end with him. Reuters reports:
On May 21, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam and the Philippines will stand together against “illegal” Chinese activities in the South China Sea. According to the AP, Dung and President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines stood together
Mallory Edens, the young, smiley, blond daughter of the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, shot to Twitter stardom in the hours after appearing on ESPN with a gaggle of old men during the NBA Lottery. Miss Edens was asked on
Last September, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged he would eradicate neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn from the country. In an alarming turn since a series of crackdowns on the party, Golden Dawn’s candidates managed to break double digits in a
On Monday, The United States pinned five Chinese military officers wanted for cyber espionage, onto the FBI’s most wanted list. China called upon newly minted US Ambassador to China Max Baucus on Tuesday, demanding an explanation for the accusations. The former Senator
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) came out strongly against the legalization of marijuana in an interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl. Karl asked Rubio if he ever smoked marijuana – which is now legal in the states of Washington and
A group of 59 Cuban exiles detained by the Mexican government for alleged immigration violations are claiming Mexico has violated their human rights and are threatening to hunger strike if they are not allowed to seek political asylum in the
The Obama administration has plans to sell one billion dollars in advanced weaponry to Iraq, according to the Pentagon. The deal provides massive advances in airpower for the Iraqi military. A Pentagon official said the deal will include 24 AT-6C
Not long ago liberals were attacking conservatives for sending fundraising letters about the failures of the Obama administration that led to the terror attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. But now liberals are fundraising off the
Hardcore “Net Neutrality” advocates won’t be very happy with the rules proposed by the FCC today, since as Reuters reports, the rules “may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to
The reason for the behind the scenes drama with ABC’s Nashville is less about ratings and more about economics and Hollywood’s lust for tax breaks. The show struggled with a drop in viewers in its second season. However, two other factors contributed to
The vice president of the National Basketball Players Association told interviewer Jim Rome that the NBA’s marquee player will sit if the NBA’s pariah owner doesn’t quit. “I was just in the locker room three or four days ago,” Derrick
The Chinese government arrested Xiang Nanfu, a “senior reporter” on the New York-based website Boxun.com, for publishing stories about the government that “seriously harm the country’s image,” according to Xinhua. Xiang is accused of writing stories of police brutality, government
Former Los Angeles Lakers great Magic Johnson was bombarded with comments about Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s rambling interview on Monday and vicious comments about him, but he simply tweeted that he would rather talk about the NBA playoffs
