TRIPOLI—Libya’s leaders on Monday elected a U.S.-educated engineering professor Abdurraheem el-Keib to serve as prime minister during the critical postwar period, in which the country will try to create an army out of hundreds of ragtag militias and launch its first democratic elections. It is hardly democracy if he has been selected by a few […]
Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show. The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington metro area earning $84,523 […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – American born citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which is run by President Obama. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, […]
(CNN Money)Home prices have taken such a beating and demand for rental units has increased so much that it’s now cheaper to buy a two-bedroom home than to rent one in most major U.S. cities. According to real estate web site Trulia, buying was cheaper than renting in 74% of the country’s 50 largest cities […]
The 11th Circuit U.s. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia has declared the “individual mandate” provision of President Obama’s health care bill unconstitutional, calling it an “unprecedented exercise of congressional power,” Reuters reports. The section of the bill in question made it illegal for an individual not to have health insurance, and is one of […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun watching a blog posted by a Christian who was forced to flee Brazil because of the conflict between that nation’s pro-homosexual “hate crimes” agenda and his advocacy for traditional marriage. Exactly why the U.S. government, which several times has linked Christians and conservatives with terrorism, is watching […]
And, sources for those of you interested: Life expectancy: Study: U.S. Slipping Down Life Expectancy Rankings, Life Expectancy Wiki Democracy index Freedom of the Press index as reported by Reporters Sans Frontières Internet Speed: US ranks 28th in Internet connection speed and World Results by Speedtest.net Prison Population Corruption Perception Index, Also reported by Transparency International Quality / efficiency of […]
Boehner Responds to Obama’s Address: ‘The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the People’ In his response to President Obama’s televised address to the nation Monday night, House Speaker John Boehner stuck to his guns, giving no indication he would be willing to compromise with the President on a debt deal. During his address, Boehner asserted […]
If you haven’t already heard, the crowd attending last weekend’s soccer match between the United States’ and Mexico’s men’s teams was overwhelmingly biased in favor of Mexico – and it was held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, with over 93,000 in attendance. When the U.S. team took the field it was “smothered in […]
The US is indebted mainly to …well.. Americans. Still, foreigners hold about 47 percent of the national debt, with China and Japan owning the biggest chunks, but not the majority. The U.S. owes somebody a whole pile of money. You knew that, right? Years of deficit spending have run up the national debt to a […]
