The federal government’s financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings to a record […]
(USA News) Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data. Overall, the rules aimed at making the air cleaner could cost the […]
Mark Steyn: “I’m not concerned about a double-dip recession,” Obama said last week. Nor would I be if I had government housing, a car and driver, and a social secretary for the missus. But I wonder if it’s such a smart idea to let one’s breezy insouciance out of the bag when you’re giving a […]
Thinking of retiring around 65? Think again, a study shows. Most Americans won’t be able to clock out for the last time until around age 80, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Americans earning between $31,200 and $72,500 will need to work to age 72 just to have a 50 percent chance of retiring, […]
(CNN) — A federal appeals court in Atlanta was openly skeptical Wednesday that the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama would survive constitutional scrutiny. A three-judge panel heard arguments in a massive lawsuit brought by Florida and 25 other states. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest of three […]
A new-born rabbit without ears is seen in Namie City which is located just outside the 30km exclusion zone of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The owner of the rabbit Yuko Sugimoto, 56-year-old, found the rabbit born without ears on May 7. She has 21 rabbits in total. The rabbit […]
(Scientific Facts Proving Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is Wrong, False and Impossible)) The body and soul of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was his idea that evolution was made possible through natural selection. This concept is based on the suggestion that those members of a species that are a little stronger, a little larger, […]
Twenty Somali Muslims have been charged in Minnesota with supporting a terrorist organization. STAR TRIBUNE–An Ohio man who once lived in Eden Prairie was arrested Thursday morning in Columbus, becoming the 20th person of Somali descent charged in Minnesota for allegedly supporting the terror group Al-Shabab. Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 26, made his initial appearance Thursday […]
(Associated Press) A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. “In our opinion, the United States has already been defaulting,” Guan Jianzhong, president of Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. Ltd., the […]
WASHINGTON — The Warlord Obama administration is starting another American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The acceleration of another American war in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has […]
