More bad economic news for the real people of America – the workers: The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers. Payrolls fell […]
Here’s the new outrage from the right. President Obama signed a book deal for an abridged version of “Dreams From My Father” aimed at middle school aged kids. Basically the published will do the book and Obama will sign off on the final copy. For this, Obama gets $500,000. The deal was reportedly in the […]
Andrew Sullivan: It says something that, challenged for posing in a photo with a man with a swastika-bedecked Obama sign, all she says in response is that far left people used Nazi imagery against “Bushitler” for years. This is true and she rightly disdained it. But … so? Why is it ok now but not […]
Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, in his State of the Union, will say that “America is addicted to oil,” and that the nation must use technology to break its dependence. OK that was a breaking news alert from Yahoo. Of course they left off the final part of “as soon as I […]
To put the ineffectiveness of the new Medicare prescription program into perspective, needymeds.com has compiled a list of common medications and compared the cost to numerous other sources. Of the ten drugs listed (including Lipitor, Plavix, Prevacid and Zocor), Medicare-D offers the highest price. The cost for all ten drugs under the new Medicare program […]