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Last night, at the State of the Union address, President Obama spoke of a recovery, but the evidence for such a recovery doesn’t really exist. The national unemployment is now 8.5% (December’s), its lowest level since January 2009, but while

With the citizens of the Europe and America groaning at the thought of spending the rest of their lives as debt-slaves to pay for failed government stimulus spending, it is understandable that the Left elites are now trying to rewrite

Barack Obama used the bully pulpit of the American Presidency to encourage what is fast becoming a disaster, otherwise known as the Occupy Movement. As city after city across America struggles to deal with the mess our community-organizer-in-chief helped to

European leaders announced yesterday their plan to stabilize the Euro and avoid a potential debt crisis. Reportedly they received a helping hand from China. Pure benevolence, right? A straight business transaction, yes? Well, they do want to make money. China

Fuel poverty in the United Kingdom is defined to be when a household spends 10 percent or more of median household income on energy for heating, hot water, lights, and appliances. According to official UK government figures, one in five

The government of Burma (Myanmar) has made a surprise announcement that the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam being built in a partnership with China is being suspended, at least until 2015, according to the BBC Burma – Myitsone dam

Coke CEO Muhtar Kent told the Financial Times that U.S. states don’t fight one another for investment opportunities, while Chinese provinces clamor to compete for foreign investments. “In the West, we’re forgetting what really worked 20 years ago. In China

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may be most famous in the United States for cheating on his taxes (you can even buy a t-shirt to acknowledge his tax dodging), but he’s becoming a punch line in the rest of the world

Do you believe in American exceptionalism? I do and while President Barack Obama may not I believe a great many of you also do. In fact some of you who are reading this article at this very moment might yourselves

Following the fire storm over our call in Big Government last week-end for an investigation of potential Presidential and Administration leaking of the Standard & Poors downgrade of the AAA credit rating of the United States; the Securities & Exchange

The U.S. Department of State on Friday issued a travel warning urging all U.S. citizens to depart Syria immediately, “while commercial transportation is still available.” It warns, “Syrian efforts to attribute the current civil unrest to external influences may lead

One of the more important but mainly overlooked resources related to national security are rare earth minerals. A recent discovery by a team of Japanese scientists east and west of Hawaii, and east of Tahiti in French Polynesia has brought

When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for an operation, gave a pre-recorded TV address on Thursday evening to announce that he had cancer, said that he was fine, and that he was still running the country as a long-distance

With food prices at historic highs, politicians are scrambling for something to blame other than themselves. That was the main agenda item on the meeting of the G-20 finance ministers from the 20 biggest economies in the world. Chinese farmers

Prime minister George Papandreou won a vote of confidence by a vote of 155 to 143 in Greece’s Parliament early Wednesday morning, after giving a passionate speech about the need to learn the lessons of previous wars and about the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Library of Congress opens the National Jukebox Nora Bayes Just in time for Memorial Day, the Library of Congress has opened a new web site containing digitized versions of over 10,000 records made from

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. In tonight’s speech, Obama will promise aid to Egypt and Tunisia President Obama plans to propose new economic help to Tunisia and Egypt in his speech to the nation on Thursday evening. The economic

US home prices fell 1.1% in the one month period from January to February, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index for February. February’s data shows that the price declines are accelerating, according to CNBC. Housing prices continue to

The Financial Times reports: French warplanes struck against Libya on Saturday, after leaders from the Arab world, Africa, the United States and other western powers approved action to protect civilians under threat from the Gaddafi regime. Defence officials said French

Though the 83rd Academy Awards was rarely entertaining (okay… it was about as much fun as a chemistry midterm), it was, for the most part, apolitical. There were a couple of exceptions, however, the most notable was perhaps cinematography winner

When the United States officially announced that negotiations over the proposed extension of Israel’s building freeze had failed, an interesting thing happened. The way the news was announced, it was phrased in such a way as to appear that the

Texas Representative Ron Paul is routinely painted as fringe, or a lunatic, at least in part for his long-standing call to audit the Federal Reserve. As the financial crisis of 2008 – 2009 played out, a compliant liberal mainstream media

In these precarious financial times in an America currently governed from the economic left, it’s only fitting that a historic left-wing online edifice has fallen on its toughest times to date. From the Wall Street Journal: Salon.com is exploring opportunities

Radical philanthropist George Soros is bankrolling a documentary that celebrates left-wing terrorists who plotted to napalm Republicans at the 2008 GOP convention in Minnesota. Even worse, you too are bankrolling the film through your taxes. You can be sure that

In the wake of recent reports that Shorebank’s financial status worsened in the second quarter, some interesting new developments have surfaced. Yesterday afternoon, Fox Business News reported that Shorebank will now be the target of a federal investigation, to look

Apparently both Red China and North Korea appear to be – and I stress the word appear – as unreasonable with President Obama as Obama has become blatantly unreasonable with the American people. Some might call it, in the case

The Financial Times reports that the number of Americans giving up their citizenship to protect their families from America’s onerous worldwide tax system has jumped rapidly. Even relatively high-tax nations such as the United Kingdom are attractive compared to the

Being an American citizen is an honor in many ways, but it is a huge millstone around the neck for highly successful investors and entrepreneurs because of an oppressive and complex tax system. This is particularly true for those based

From today’s Financial Times: “When Andrew Breitbart first saw video footage of workers from Acorn, a community activist group, telling two undercover reporters how to set up a brothel and avoid paying taxes he knew he had a big scoop

From today’s Financial Times: When Andrew Breitbart first saw video footage of workers from Acorn, a community activist group, telling two undercover reporters how to set up a brothel and avoid paying taxes he knew he had a big scoop

The upcoming documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” skewers global warming alarmists in the media and around the world. But filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer contend their movie isn’t a conservative one. “It’s a liberal, socialist film. It’s about poor

Financial Times: Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US official told the FT. The cyber attackers managed to penetrate the White House system for brief periods