A new Gallup poll released Tuesday indicates that Jewish support for U.S. President Barack H. Obama has slipped over the past month – but only slightly. The latest poll, covering the period between May 19 and June 30, had 60% of American Jews approving of the job Obama is doing, down from a high of […]
(Express UK) The controversy over global warming hotted up last night after US scientists revealed that the Earth’s temperature declined over the past decade. They said a surge in the use of coal-fired power stations in China may have helped cool the climate by pumping sulphur into the atmosphere. But they also warned that the […]
Michael J. Totten It’s bad enough Representative Dennis Kucinich ran off to visit Syria’s mass-murdering tyrant Bashar al-Assad while pools of blood are still warm on the streets. Now stories are appearing in Syria’s state-run media portraying our silliest Congressman as a mouthpiece for the dictatorship. “There are some who want to give a wrong […]
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who is mulling a bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, said President Obama has “failed on the economic front.” “On the economic side, there are no signs of success, very little,” Mr. Huntsman said in a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The criticism of […]
(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 […]
In this week’s common-sense video, David Spady discusses California Governor Brown’s use of the DMV as a political pawn in his attempt to raise taxes on Californians. Jerry Brown’s Word Games for Taxes [youtube BOSoFk8twxs nolink]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Even before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population, the state had begun taking steps to relieve severe overcrowding at the direction of a former actor-turned-governor who alternated roles between get-tough cop and social worker reformer. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted in 2005 that […]
Executive Order 13166 states that any entity which receives federal funds must provide whatever services it offers in any foreign language spoken by anyone likely to receive those services. It says failure to do so is likely to constitute “discrimination on the basis of national origin” as prohibited by Title VI of the 1964 Civil […]
The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default. The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing and reinvesting government securities in certain government pension plans, part of a series of steps designed to delay a […]
by Karl Denninger– First, refuse to release an actual birth certificate when you’re challenged on your bona-fides to be President during the original campaign. Then, when pressed, release one that is heavily compressed and bears no relationship to an actual simple scan of a piece of paper, leaving plenty of doubt about exactly how it came […]
