As if this comes as any shocker: Corporate America finished the second quarter with “near-historic” profits, largely by cutting costs, laying off employees and streamlining operations, the Wall Street Journal reports. Profits for companies in the S&P 500 soared 38 percent from the same period last year, hitting $189 billion, the WSJ says, the sixth-highest […]
They finally reached the remaining miners in West Virginia and the outcome was not good. Last night they finally reached the final four missing miners and all were dead. This now makes the disaster at Big Branch the worst mining accident in nearly 4 decades, and one that could have been adverted. We have heard […]
One of the long time corner stones of the Republican Party has been trying to rid ourselves of any government regulation. They believe that people and business should be able to regulate themselves. Here’s an example of what that system produces: The market concentration for health insurance is so monopolized in some areas that insurance […]
Funny how stories like this don’t get too much attention in the U.S.: The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict’s household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap […]
Following Willy Cunningham’s incident at today’s McCain rally, he now says he has “had enough of McCain” and may support Nader (click here for video). Earlier he even said he may support Hillary Clinton. (on a side note, it is so much fun living in our new election Mecca. 2004. and now 2008, Ohio is […]
Well I guess we are proving more and more that we are in a holy war. At least that is the perception given by Republican Representative Thomas G Tancredo of Colorado. In an interview on a Florida radio station, the Congressman said that if we experience a multi city attack then we could respond by […]