Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

It’s pretty well known that American jobs are declining. The economy is tanking and the jobs that could keep us afloat are all heading abroad. The reason for this obviously is because it is much cost effective for US companies to outsource these jobs than to keep it in US itself. At one point in [...]

The battle continues to rage. Jon Stewart vs. Fox News and Herman Cain. First Stewart ridiculed tea party presidential candidate Herman Cain’s proposal to limit all federal bills to three pages, mimicking his Southern accent and declaring, “I don’t like to read.” Fox News hosts called Stewart’s impression “racist.” On Tuesday night, Stewart hit back [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one of the most influential members of [...]

Fox News Channel on Wednesday said it was dropping Glenn Beck’s afternoon talk show, which has sunk in the ratings and suffered financially due to an advertiser boycott. Fox and Beck said the show will end later this year. Fox News and Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, said they will work together to create other [...]

Congressional negotiators on Wednesday raced against a looming deadline to agree on billions of dollars in spending cuts and find a budget deal that keeps the federal government operating beyond Friday. With time running short, Republican and Democratic negotiators struggled to find a compromise that would avert a federal government shutdown that could throw hundreds [...]

A medical marijuana law in the state of Montana is being used for large-scale drug trafficking, federal prosecutors said, days after the U.S. government raided facilities across the state. The raids on Monday capped an 18-month investigation of marijuana trafficking statewide, the U.S. Attorney for Montana, Michael Cotter, said in a statement.

Libyans celebrated the liberation of the east of the country from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to crush the revolt and on Wednesday was trying to assert his grip on the capital Tripoli, in the west. Lying between Egypt and Tunisia, where a wave of Arab unrest has unseated two veteran presidents, [...]

The other day someone said that to die for respect was stupid.  Tell that to this man and the rest of Egypt.  I tend to think that if you don’t have anything you are willing to die for, then you may not have much to live for either. A bitter and, by turns, bloody confrontation [...]

Say, isn’t that the president with a gun in his hand? Actually, no, but it sure looks like it. Austrian authorities are searching for a bank robber who uses an unusual disguise: He wears a Barack Obama mask during his holdups. Police say the man, nicknamed the “Obama Robber” by local media, is wanted for [...]

Does a secret stop being a secret when millions of people know it? Yes, says common sense. No, says the U.S. government, whose reaction to the WikiLeaks dump of classified diplomatic cables portrays a bureaucracy inhabiting a logic-free world all of its own. Writers thinking of producing 21st century novels emulating the works of Franz [...]

The Congress on Saturday voted to repeal the ban against gays serving openly in the military and sent the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Senate voted 65-31 to end 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy just after breaking through a Republican procedural roadblock which had held up the White House-backed legislation. [...]