Yesterday John Boehner said there would be no debt ceiling increase without cutting trillions in spending: “Without significant spending cuts and changes to the way we spend the American people’s money, there will be no debt limit increase,” Mr. Boehner told members of New York’s business and finance community. “And cuts should be greater than […]
Drudge is pushing a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, also being published by PBS: The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive […]
It certainly isn’t if you have CEO behind your name and you work for a big corporation: Compensation received by chief executives of the biggest US companies surged 11 percent over the past 12 months — to $9.3 million on average, The Wall Street Journal reported. Citing a study conducted for the newspaper by management […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted one of the most depressing headlines I had seen in years: McDonald’s aims to fill 50,000 jobs in a day What made this so depressing is the rate at which this news item grew. Our job market has reached a point that people are excited over McDonald’s hiring. […]
Paul Ryan has admitted that his Medicare plan is nothing more than a mandate for seniors. This is from a townhall Ryan held in Racine, Wisconsin: Q: If Medicare becomes a voucher program, would you require seniors to purchase private insurance and if so isn’t that an individual mandate? If you will not require them […]
The measure already passed the Senate by a 97-0 vote and wouldn’t take much time to pass on the House floor either: House Republicans say they have no plans to follow the Senate in passing a resolution honoring the military mission that killed Osama bin Laden. The decision by GOP leaders follows new rules they […]
With the news that the Obama administration won’t release the images of a dead Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin once again takes to the Twitter to prove she is totally wrong on national security: So why is this the wrong thing to do? Well let’s ask the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, […]
We already know there has been a lot of past hypocrisy when it comes to the GOP and healthcare mandates. Mitt Romney imposed a mandate as governor of Massachusetts and many Republicans applauded the system. Then the Democrats put in a mandate in the Affordable Health Care Act and Republicans instantly jumped on them being […]
Since the death of Bin Laden, the torture supporters have been in chest thumping mode, saying that it was the harsh interrogation torture of detainees that lead to the intel: Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through […]