An Indiana county municipal official in the vicinity of Chicago reveals the contents of his meetings with FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.
Dan Aykroyd returned to rib the Republican Party's minority status in Congress. The Republicans then debate whether Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh is the smartest man alive
UNBELIEVEABLE video of the NH House State-Federal Relations Committee voting down HCR6 which would have confirmed that state's sovereignty (with only CONSENTING views being voiced!)
"A little state control wouldn't hurt anybody," declared Jerry Brown, California's Democrat attorney general, in on air comments yesterday about the possible reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine."
[Investors] need reassurance that our capital markets operate with a consistent set of rules. The Committee on Doubt and Uncertainty offered only the assurance that the rules will keep changing.
Treasury Secretary Geithner laid out the Obama administration's financial rescue program for his international counterparts in an effort to rally a vigorous global response to the worsening crisis and reassured the world's leading economies t
1967 murder death bed confession: She killed those women, she told police, because they teased her about her sexuality. She also told them that afterward she handed the gun to the lead detective and he buried it.
California lawmakers began voting late Saturday on plans to raise taxes and cut spending to close a $42 billion budget deficit the state's government faces over the next 17 months. If California receives at least $9.1 billion in new federal funds
Swiss bank Credit Suisse is taking steps to change its relationship with US clients in view of new, stricter rules on the taxation of US residents' assets abroad. Credit Suisse is asking US clients to sign form W9 to reveal them to US authorities
The US military will begin recruiting immigrants with special skills who are in the US on temporary visas, offering a chance to become citizens in as little as 6 months. It would be the first time since the Vietnam War that the armed forces would be
Raising fresh questions about his appointment to Congress, Sen. Roland Burris admitted that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor named Burris as Illinois' junior senator.
Police in South Carolina gave away roses on Valentine’s Day. All you had to do to get one for your sweetie was turn in a gun. Hoping to get the weapons off the streets with the “Guns for Roses” program,
Apparently USDA was inefficient in its efforts to forcibly overtake the US food supplies and the federal government has found it necessary to intervene and make mandatory the implementation of NAIS on all levels.
Even those who see Mexico merely in terms of illegal immigration ought to broaden their horizons. If the lawlessness down south isn’t reduced, immigration pressure will increase as more Mexicans seek refuge from the violence.
Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months.
Plainly, the sooner Atlantis and its Atlantic mercantile empire is dug up and acknowledged the better for scholarship everywhere. What impresses me most is how accurate Plato’s report turned out to be. I am developing a healthy respect for ancient so
Many expatriates here talk about Dubai as though it were a con game all along. Lurid rumors spread quickly: the Palm Jumeira, an artificial island that is one of this city’s trademark developments, is said to be sinking...
It turns out that the yield per acre is an astounding 140 tons of rhizomes. It also almost certainly produces another thirty tons or so of reeds that also might be used. The dry weight of this bounty is thirty two tons, easily ten times the competiti
What is the reason then that we are following a path that will fail? Are those who know what is happening afraid to admit it, to tell the truth? Is it simple looting until the harsh medicine is taken? Is it the cowardice of the Democrats?
Obama’s bailout plan, added to the FY 2009 budget deficit he has inherited from Bush, opens a expenditure hole of about $3 trillion. As Craig Roberts, pointed out here last week, “Who is going to purchase $3 trillion of US Treasury bonds?
The Speaker of the House wants everyone to pay the minimum wage except herself and other politicians. Watch Pelosi call the guard on Jan Helfeld to prevent any more questions.
The conclusion has to be that Geithner doesn’t know how his “stability” plan will work out in practice because he’s not yet sure what China and other global players are going to do. Our fate lies in their hands, signaling desperate times for our nati
Who remembers economists' hysteria over the "Reagan deficits"? Wall Street was in panic. Ronald Reagan's fiscal irresponsibility was bringing the end of the world. The 2009 federal budget deficit that Obama is inheriting, and adding
"A new world economic order might seem rhetorical," he told reporters. "But it is a true goal we should be aiming towards... today right here in Rome we've embarked on a very significant journey, both technical and ethical."
"One plan includes a Chapter 11 filing that would assemble all of GM's viable assets, including some U.S. brands and international operations, into a new company," the newspaper said.