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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

Donald Sterling will reportedly sue the NBA for $1 billion a day after his wife reportedly accepted a deal to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.  NBC first reported that Sterling may sue for

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s mental incapacity is caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to TMZ. TMZ quotes sources close to the Sterling family who confessed that Sterling underwent an examination earlier in May by two well-known neurologists, who conducted

Los Angeles Times sports writer Bill Plaschke is scratching his head, wondering how the woefully mediocre Los Angeles Clippers managed to garner a staggering $2 billion dollar offer from former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer.  According to the Times, the deal

If former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer buys the Clippers for $2 billion, the Sterlings will owe an estimated $662 million in total capital gains taxes.  Donald Sterling bought the Clippers for $12.5 million in 1981. According to accountant Robert Raiola,

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will reportedly buy the Los Angeles Clippers from Donald and Shelly Sterling for $2 billion.  On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported Ballmer “won a frenetic bidding war” to buy the team for record-setting price

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will reportedly buy the Los Angeles Clippers from Donald and Shelly Sterling for $2 billion. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported Ballmer “won a frenetic bidding war” to buy the team for record-setting price

H.R. Giger, the man behind the game-changing production design for Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece “Alien,” died of an accidental fall at age 74. Giger won an Academy Award for his work on “Alien,” and would return for “Alien 3.” Giger’s

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security proposed immigration rule changes that would allow the spouses of foreigners who have H1-B work visas to also obtain jobs.  As The Hill noted, under the current rules, “highly skilled foreign

An economist whose research finding increased immigration does not depress the wages of American workers that was touted by liberal pundits received a $50,000 grant from Microsoft in 2011, a company lobbying for amnesty. The economist, Giovanni Peri of the

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said Friday at Hollywood’s “Creativity Conference” in Washington that there is a “grand bargain” in the works on amnesty. ABC News’s Rick Klein Tweeted that Goodlatte told ABC reporter Jon Karl at

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group, formed to lobby for amnesty legislation, will host an event in Boston on Tuesday, presumably to discuss with policymakers the need for more foreign workers in the high-tech industry.  The “The Future of Talent”

On the day that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) told a local newspaper that she believed amnesty legislation could be brought to the floor by August, she met with Satya Nadella, the new CEO of Microsoft. “I believe there is a

Embattled director Bryan Singer says he has proof that will exonerate him against charges he drugged and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old boy in 1999. Singer still is watching his calender being upturned days after the lawsuit describing Singer’s alleged acts

Several members on the Texas State Board of Education recently pushed to institute a required Mexican-American studies class in all Texas public high schools. Supporters of the proposal argued that such a course would give students a more well-rounded perspective of Texas

Yahoo/Microsoft  Enter Streaming TV Biz Everybody knows television as we know it is as dead, and this includes evil bundled cable television. Time for smart players to get in on the ground floor of Streaming while there still is one.

“It’s Official: We Are In a Tech Bubble. That was the March 11 headline in Fox Business News. Tech veteran Steve Tobak asked, “How can an industry full of so many brilliant and innovative people–an industry I was once a

Many of you all posting here will whine that when it comes to productivity software, OpenOffice rocks, or Pages or Google Docs is all you need. I hear the same crap from pundits on all the tech podcasts. Apple and

Speaking before the Patriots Rally for Freedom event held in March in Martindale, Texas, Alice Linahan, a self-described “Ticked-Off Mom” and co-founder of the Women on the Wall organization discussed how liberals in education are involved in “dumbing down our

WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. has used an aggressive tax strategy to shift profits overseas in order to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes, according to a new investigative report by a key Senate Democrat. Caterpillar has avoided

The ObamaCare launch disaster wasn’t all about the bumblers in the Obama Administration scarfing down $600 million and farting out a pile of 404 errors.  The state exchanges had a lot of trouble, too.  The worst ones are still abject

French satellites have found what they believe could be a “debris field” made of parts of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian officials announced to day. The news arrives after inclement weather halted the search Tuesday. Malaysia’s acting transportation minister

It’s hard to believe but after two years of warnings, 400million of you still run Windows XP on your computer. And on April 8th Microsoft is ending support. XP is finished – as in NO MORE SECURITY UPDATES for XP.

The attacks of anti-technology left-wingers in San Francisco are kicking into high gear with multiple, rowdy protests, bouts of property damage, and graffiti all across the city calling for the death of those “techies” who work for Google, Microsoft, and

MARTINDALE, TEXAS–Hundreds of Texas patriots streamed in throughout the day to hear a solid line-up of conservative speakers at the “Patriots Rally for Freedom” event held near San Marcos on Saturday.   Event organizer Linda Buckmaster said, “People streamed in

Microsoft founder Bill Gates appeared on ABC’s “This Week” to defend the controversial “Common Core” set of learning standards… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

AUSTIN, TEXAS–TAMSA (Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment) is the mom-pack posing as the grassroots on the Texas education advocacy front that Breitbart Texas reported flew under the radar when working with elected officials Representative Jimmy Don Aycock (R-Killen) and

It’s not just truth that is elusive for Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama Administration when it comes to Obamacare, it is reality that is more elusive.  In an interview with NBC News on September 30, 2013 HHS Secretary  Kathleen Sebelius said: “I think

The U.S. Department of Justice has not only successfully sued Apple for arguably non-existent anti-trust violations in the e-book market. It has even demanded – and gotten – a court-appointed “monitor” placed inside the company to supervise the company’s pricing

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47. Famed for TV shows such as “Australia’s Next Top Model,” the New

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) guarded by Microsoft Kinect game software Pakistan asked to send 30,000 troops to Saudi Arabia Iran calls al-Qaeda the ‘the Saudi-US lovechild of terrorism’ Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) guarded by

Microsoft moved Tuesday to reboot for a mobile future, naming Indian-born Satya Nadella chief executive as founder Bill Gates shed his title of chairman for a more hands-on role. Gates “will devote more time to the company” in his new