Some good news on the jobs front: New applications for U.S. jobless benefits plunged to the lowest level in 14 weeks, a possible sign that the massive wave of layoffs has peaked. Still, the number of unemployed Americans getting benefits climbed to a new record. The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number newly laid […]
Matt Drudge will never change, and is still at it when it comes to trying to misinterpret headlines into something that might enrage the right wing. Here’s the latest example: So HuffPo is getting a “bailout”? Is she part of the financial sector or auto industry? The answer to both is of course “no”. Instead […]
Sarah Palin gives the Obama campaign another gift: Ensuring that news of the Republican National Committee’s sartorial spending spree will remain in the headlines for at least one more news cycle, Sarah Palin on Sunday sounded off on the $150,000 wardrobe that was purchased for her in September, denouncing the report as “ridiculous” and declaring […]
A peek into a very dark and dismal future: Obama is still pulling ahead in the polls, but that lead does not have the comfortable factor that it should. We need to work harder to get people out to vote on Election Day so we don’t have to wake up to these headlines on November […]
I am still tweaking things on this new template. I did some minor redesigns on the side bar. I’m not sure if I am entirely happy with it yet or not, so I will look at it again tomorrow. There is a new Latest Headlines box on the side bar. These are links to actual […]
So he says: In two interviews before the Army took McCain and 60 Minutes on the heavily guarded visit to the al-Shorja market last Sunday, the senator said security had improved in Iraq. Upon his return, he also told a news conference he had just come back from a neighborhood one could walk around in […]
Five years ago today George Bush announced that Operation Enduring Freedom was underway in Afghanistan. American’s were happy to see justice taking place for the horrible attacks that happened a month before. Five years later, here we are. One of today’s big headlines “Taliban revived in southern Afghanistan“. To the American people, the NATO troops […]
So here we go with another “foiled terror plot”. You can tell mid-terms are getting close. Anyways here is the rundown of headlines covering it: Britain says it foils “mass murder” plane bomb plot US raises air security alert to red for first time Airline plot involved liquid explosives Terror concerns seen pressuring markets BA […]
I posted yesterday about the new headlines section at the top of the page and that to view previous items you would have to go to the category. Well I modifies that today and added previous and next item links to that section. Clicking on those links will just load the new items into that […]
As I go through trying to fine tune everything I have noticed a couple small problems with the site. First off there was a couple days where it was slow loading. This was actually a problem with the hosting company. Thankfully they were quick to remedy the situation. It took a couple days because I […]