Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center, attached to the wall, is a cardboard thermometer that shows them inching toward their goal of sign
PHOENIX -- In the coming days, hundreds of homemade signs opposing mandatory flu shots will appear on streets across the Valley.
The sign campaign is aimed a
That's the question being posed by civic and business leaders, politicos and members of the public as they confront a state Capitol defined by gridlock, distrust and dysfunction.
Home-foreclosure activity has spilled across every geographic and socioeconomic border this year, proving that no community was too cautious, clever or well-funded to remain unscathed.
Several ancient Chinese literary documents indicate that in pre-Columbian times contact was established with the indigenous people of the Americas. One such encounter is recorded in the Shan Hai King, which was written about 2250 BCE. This document t
Mapping the mantle
The geophysicists measured the speed of sound in the mantle to depths of 340 km beneath Asia, North and South America and Australia. By combining a large set of data in a form of tomography, they were able to build up velocity m
Thanks to you, Tucson’s Last Stand was a huge success, with the Arizona Daily Star reporting more than 6000 people in attendance! It was one of the biggest political rallies in Arizona history.
(See the end of this article for a roundup of pictures
Listening to numerous discussions on talk radio shows across the nation about Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, I was struck by the observation that no one mentioned what is to me the single most important (and obvious) objection to it.
Professor Ellen van Wolde...claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.
This should send fear into the hearts and minds of anyone who does not own physical gold and silver - and I'm I don't mean GLD, which is nothing but a pure derivative of gold:
Simply stunning, too-insane-to-be-believed, statements from Barney Frank concerning the Government's hopelessly futile attempt to stop the housing market collapse - i.e. override the LAWS of economics
In this fascinating speech, economist Thomas Woods explains why you've never heard of the Depression of 1920. Because it was over within a year, as the government let it run its course.
He's just getting started. And if this fellow is any indication of the kind of judges we can expect to populate our federal courts, I guarantee you we will spend the next decade or more scratching our heads at the idiotic leftist decisions that will
Global warming is based 100% on junk science. The most vocal promoters are not interested in the details of physical science. They are interested in two things: political control over the general public and the establishment of international socialis
A method of tracking of people’s movements behind walls or total darkness has been developed. Its inventors have come up with dozens of applications, from dealing with hostage crisis to taking care of elder people.
Under the Democratic bills, federal tax credits to help make health insurance affordable for millions of low- and middle-income households won't start flowing until 2013 — after the next presidential election. But Medicare cuts and a sizable chunk of
A recent piece by Barclay's Steven Englander demonstrates how everybody and the kitchen sink is soundly amused by Geithner's call for a strong dollar. "The IMF Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves data suggest that central banks are doin
Some ominous moves out of the Hang Send and the Shanghai Composite overnight which may have everything to do with the latest piece from Caijing, which notes that according to banking sources September lending by China's four largest banks was the low
'm going to go back to this quote by Barney Frank of the US House, because it says everything those in state and local governments need to know:
Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, sa
Hey! Uncle Jay isn't George Bush either, where's HIS medal? Nobel Peace congrats are coming in from all over: Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur and the Moon. Uncle Jay explains it all!
The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
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Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman explores the unsettling dynamics set into motion when government imposes itself into the health care system. (1978