University of Toledo College Republicans are compiling a list of liberal professors who they claimed have a bias against conservative students. According to The Independent Collegian, the list includes professors who students say have let their political views interfere with the way they interact with students in the classroom. UT College Republicans President Matt... »
Walt Disney Co. announced plans this morning to purchase Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel, including it’s library of more than 5,000 characters, such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America and the Hulk. The acquisition makes Disney a partner with rivals Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment... »
To help ensure that Democrats keep their critical 60th vote in the U.S. Senate, Massachusetts lawmakers are scrambling to change a state law which requires that a special election must be held to fill Senator Edward Kennedy’s vacated seat. The priority is to find some way to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name a... »
Alsumaria Iraqi Satellite TV Network reports that relations between Iraq and Syria will not improve until Syria hands over suspects thought to have plotted recent bombings in Baghdad who are present currently in Damascus. “Our relations with Syria have reached a crossroads of whether they choose to have good relations with Iraq, or whether... »
Stocks of ammunition at gun shops across America have depleted rapidly. According to Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, the price for some calibers of handgun bullets have doubled. Both gun sales and the demand for ammunition of all types have soared since the 2008 election. Much of this is attributed to the pre-election advertising which... »
Representative Gary Miller is from California’s 42nd Congressional District He is another emerging Congressional leader to watch. With all the hype, what are the facts about some of the healthcare reform proposals? On his website, Congressman Miller displays a list of facts that dissect H.R. 3200 “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.” This... »
According to a report in today’s FOX News, doctors are reporting a severe form of the H1N1 virus that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment. Also referred to as the “swine flu”, this update on the pandemic is cause for alarm to... »
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to raise some much-needed cash by selling off the state’s unclaimed property in The Great California Garage Sale. The garage sale is being held at a warehouse in Sacramento on Friday and Saturday, and will include everything from jewelry to cars. A few of the items up for... »
CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick has been seriously injured in Afghanistan while on assignment for CBS Radio News. McCormick, 47, was traveling with the U.S. Army when the vehicle she was riding in was hit by an explosive device. She underwent surgery at a field hospital and was transported to Bagram Air Base for... »
There are other solutions to health care reform. In spite of the White House-Pelosi-Reid media blitz and denigrating name calling against all critics, there are voices of reasoned opposition in Congress. We seldom hear about them in the press, but they are there and they deserve to be heard above the often shrill liberal cacophony.... »
ABC and NBC have refused to run a national ad by the League of American Voters that criticizes Obama’s health care reform. Given that ABC ran a health care infomercial during prime-time, that was filmed at the White House and during which they refused to run paid ads that expressed an opposing view, the assertion that they do... »
The body of the Rev. Carol Daniels was found inside Christ Holy Sanctified Church in Anadarko, Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon. A source close to the investigation said that she was found in what appeared to be a staged position, according to a report by the Oklahoman. Investigators said they are haunted by the methodical nature of the... »
A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said. The details about her time in captivity emerged after... »
Letalvis Cobbins, 26, of Lebanon, Ky., was convicted Tuesday of murder in the brutal carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple who were snatched while they were on a date in 2007. Cobbins is the first of four defendants charged with participating in the brutal murder of Channon Christian, 21, and her... »
The digital world has been invaded by a rogue software program that was launched onto the Internet last November. According to The New York Times, the program, known as Conficker, uses flaws in Windows software to co-opt machines and link them into a virtual computer that can be commanded remotely by its authors. It... »
A profound comment on the currently proposed Obama health care proposal. Congressman Mike Rogers’ opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.: »
“I’m not going to be railroaded out of this office by political opponents or people who were not fans of mine in the first place,” Governor Mark Sanford told a news conference in the South Carolina capital Columbia. According to Reuters, earlier Wednesday, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, also a Republican, said in... »
After hiding at her aunt’s home for 10 days, a 10-year-old Saudi Arabian child bride was forced by her father to return to her 80-year-old husband on Sunday. The husband, who denies being 80 in spite of family claims, has accused the aunt of meddling in his affairs. He had been engaged to the... »
According to Yahoo News, President Obama nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday, aiming for continuity at a time when the U.S. economy is breaking free from a deep recession. The decision, while widely expected, was welcomed by financial markets and policy makers around the globe. Economists said... »
On the heels of Cash for Clunkers, a $300 million federal program offering rebates of $50 to $200 for high efficiency household appliances is slated to begin this fall, in hopes of boosting a worsening home appliance industry slump that began in 2006 as the housing market cooled. The money is part of the... »
Melanie Griffith’s rep has confirmed to People that the 52-year-old actress has checked into rehab. “She is there to reinforce her commitment to stay healthy,” says her rep Robin Baum. “This is part of a routine plan that was designed between her and her doctors years ago.” According to reports, the actress, 52,... »
At a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman called access to “decent affordable health care” a “human right.” He also said that while he still hopes to craft a bipartisan bill in the Senate, if that effort fails he would support pushing a health care reform bill through this year using... »
Iyman Faris, left, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed The Columbus Dispatch disclosed that, “An internal CIA report made public yesterday says the agency’s heavily criticized interrogation techniques led to the 2003 arrest of a Columbus truck driver who pleaded guilty to providing assistance to al-Qaida.” The 2004 CIA report asserts that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the... »
On Friday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Ahmad Vahidi for defense minister in his new cabinet. Argentina immediately expressed outrage at the nomination of a man who was allegedly involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. According to the UK’s Guardian, Argentinian prosecutors joined Jewish groups last night in condemnation... »
The New York Times reports that the Obama administration, citing an economic downturn that has been deeper than it had first thought, raised its estimate on Tuesday of the government’s deficit over the next decade to $9 trillion from $7.1 trillion. The Times stated, “Despite the shortfalls, White House officials said they saw no... »
Reuters reported on Tuesday that Cuban leader Fidel Castro defended Obama from his critics in a column in the Cuban state-run media. “President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black.” The “powerful extreme... »
Reuters covered the findings of the Los Angeles chief medical examiner which were unsealed in court documents in Houston on Monday. “The Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr. Sathyavagiswaran, indicated that he had reviewed the preliminary toxicology results and his preliminary assessment of Jackson’s cause of death was due to lethal levels of propofol... »
Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is heralded as one of the few economists who accurately predicted the magnitude of the world’s recent financial troubles. He has authored a rather detailed piece on Sunday’s Financial Times’ website in which, he warns that if policymakers try to fight rising... »
The New York Times covered several of the guest appearances on the Sunday news-talk shows. Sen. John McCain was interviewed on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” He said that a public plan would cause many Americans to lose their private health insurance. “Certainly if you have it, you shouldn’t have to lose... »
According to the Briefing Room, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has previously said that he opposes a public option plan for consumers in a healthcare reform plan to emerge from the Senate. “I don’t favor a public option,” Lieberman told Bloomberg News in an interview back in June. “ And I don’t favor a public option... »
