Washington is preparing for a House “vote” on the current health care plan, but unfortunately Congress isn’t listening to the rest of America. Aside from the fact that hardworking citizens won’t appreciate the use of parliamentary gimmicks in the forms of the “Slaughter Rule” and reconciliation, Americans simply don’t like …
Read More »3 Reasons Why Gitmo Will Not Close Under Obama
Three key developments over the past 10 days have all but assured that Guantanamo detention facilities will remain open during the Obama administration. First, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) report to Congress this week on ex-Gitmo detainee recidivism rates shows a jump to 25%, or 150 …
Read More »New Nike product plus app coming to a sneaker near you
Your sneakers will come alive with the soon to be released Nike+ Basketball and Nike+ Training — apps plus shoes. The technology once only available to elite athletes will soon be available to consumers. It includes sophisticated sensors inside the soles of sneakers, tracking all kinds of cool information. “Those …
Read More »Atheists demand Navy chaplain. Should they get one?
Didyou hear the joke about the atheists who claimed to be religious? Well, it’s not a joke, it’s a lawsuit. On June 22, an avowed secular atheist and member of the Humanist Society, stood in court and—with a straight face—asked to have his group recognized as a religious organization so …
Read More »The Time Is Now to Act Against Iran
According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States is considering watering down latest U.N. sanctions proposal in order to get China and Russia on board. We’ve already had three rounds of sanctions without teeth that accomplished little, it’s the definition of insanity to keep doing the same thing again …
Read More »Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and the great mommy debate
I’ve been reluctant to weigh in on the Mommy Wars, since I’m of that generation of trailblazers that didn’t dwell on the career/family/fulfillment balance. We were like explorers in the uncharted wilderness in the 1970s and 80s. There were no maps to guide us, so we just set off in …
Read More »Five years later, Dodd-Frank is a failure
Tuesdaywill mark five years since President Obama’s signing of the Dodd-Frank law, the most sweeping rewrite of the country’s financial laws since the New Deal. Obama told the country that the legislation would “lift our economy.” The statute itself declared that it would “end too big to fail” and “promote …
Read More »Spain's Socialists name general secretary as candidate for premier in general elections
MADRID – Spain’s Socialist party has appointed its secretary-general as candidate for the post of prime minister in the next general elections due to take place late this year. The leading opposition party on Sunday tasked Pedro Sanchez with winning back voters and taking on the ruling Popular Party of …
Read More »Sentencing, guilty plea planned for rock throwing incident on I-80 that hurt Ohio teacher
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Pennsylvania man is about to find out how much time he’ll serve for his role in a rock-throwing incident last year that badly injured an Ohio teacher traveling on Interstate 80. Union County court officials said 19-year-old Brett Lahr will learn Tuesday how long he’ll be …
Read More »Poland's Parliament chooses new speaker, to replace Radek Sikorski, amid recording scandal
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s lawmakers have voted to choose the ruling party’s Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska as Parliament Speaker until the fall general elections. In the same vote, the lower house, or Sejm, approved the resignation of Radek Sikorski. He resigned as speaker as a result of a 2014 scandal in which …
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