Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Gov’t Debt Hit Record $1,696,691,000,000; Up 257% Under Obama In data releasedThursday afternoon, the Federal Reserve revealed that its holdings of U.S. government debt had increased to an all-time record of $1,696,691,000,000 as of the close of business on Wednesday.
Can You Erase Yourself From the Internet? Once it’s online, it’s online for good. That’s the lesson many people learn the hard way through social media, as personal messages go public and private photos end up in places they were never intended to be.
Libertarians are Terrorists! Martin Luther King, Jr. was a domestic terrorist. Or at least that’s how the government saw it back in the 1960s, when Dr. King threatened the status quo and forced the nation to question its constitutional responsibilities.
Snopes.com is a Scam For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell all final word’ on any comment, claim and email.
Privacy-Killing Executive Order Expected Soon From Obama The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is back, albeit with expected revisions. CISPA author Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD and co-author Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) are planning to reintroduce the bill in the House. But, this time they are working in conjunction with the White House in order to avoid a veto from President Obama.
Democratic House Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Caught in Deception with Reporters Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz attempted a bit of deception Monday in an effort to criticize GOP rising star Marco Rubio ahead of his State of the Union rebuttal Tuesday night. But on this occasion, the press wasn’t falling for it.
Cupid’s Arrow: Research Illuminates Laws of Attraction We’ve heard the clichés: “It was love at first sight,” “It’s inner beauty that truly matters,” and “Opposites attract.”
15 Year Old Invents New Method of Diagnosing Cancer Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school.
Is The Earth Cooking Up Another Super Volcano? Every few million years or so, the Earth burps up a gargantuan volcano.
CISPA’s Back: Hacking, Online Espionage Resurrect Cybersecurity Bill The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws.
GMO Giant Monsanto Joins Big Business Coalition for UN Agenda 21 Corporate giant Monsanto, known for its controversial business model, lobbying, and its widely criticized genetically modified organisms (GMOs), has officially joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a group of powerful interests including major banks and Big Oil backing the United Nations “Agenda 21” scheme for so-called “sustainable development.”
McConnell Backs Hemp Bill Lawmakers in Kentucky hoping to cash in on the state’s cash crop by legalizing the farming of industrial hemp got a significant boost of support from one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Martial Law Declared in NE Facing up to one year in jail and a $1000 fine for merely driving their own cars on public streets and highways, citizens in various areas within the New England region have been hit with executive orders, threatening residents with criminal penalties if they leave their homes and attempt to drive during the current snowstorm.
Animal Magnetism: First Evidence That Magnetism Helps Salmon Find Home Salmon appear to seek the magnetic signature of their home river during their spawning migration.
Air Pollution Linked to Low Birth Weight Mothers who breathe the kind of pollution emitted by vehicles, coal power plants and factories are significantly likelier to give birth to underweight children than mothers living in less polluted areas, according to international findings published Wednesday.
Back to the Basics: Straightening Up America “How far can you make a man bend over backwards before he breaks?” This anguished cry is a defining moment in one of the most widely acclaimed musical productions of the Twentieth Century, “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Profound Weight of Layoffs Is Seen in Work Trends Survey Link: Layoffs have touched nearly every American household in some fashion over the last few years, according to new survey data to be released Thursday by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
Obama’s Global Development Council Promotes Abortion, UN Redistribution In an important pre-Christmas action that received scant media attention, President Obamaannounced appointments to a number of key administrative posts, including nine members of the President’s Global Development Council, an organization he created by executive order one year ago, on February 9, 2012.
Survey: Young Adults More Stressed Than Other Generations A new survey released Thursday says young adults, between 18 and 33-years-old, are more stressed than any other generation.
DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
Caught on Camera: Joe Biden Admits Gun Control Will Not Stop Mass Shootings Joe Biden was caught on camera in Washington saying that new gun control laws will notprevent another mass shooting or lower the number of gun deaths. Yet the President and Biden are telling us that we MUST pass gun control even if it saves just one life.
Social Security to Run Out of Money Sooner Than Estimated The February report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) about the inevitable insolvency of Social Security is discouraging enough without checking the CBO’s assumptions. A closer look at the report and those assumptions reveals a Ponzi scheme that is going to crater sooner than expected.
Restored Payroll Tax Pinches Those Who Earn the Least Link: Jack Andrews and his wife no longer enjoy what they call date night, their once-a-month outing to the movies and a steak dinner at Logan’s Roadhouse in Augusta, Ga.