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GM stops all Facebook advertising for its cars, says waste of money WSJ: "General Motors Co. plans to stop advertising on Facebook after the auto maker's executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers' car purchases, people familiar with the matter said." Link...
California to increase sales, income taxes to save budget and decrease $16 billion deficit Brown has said there will be even deeper cuts, mostly to public education, if voters do not improve tax hikes in November. He is seeking a quarter-cent increase in the state sales tax for four years and a seven-year hike on incomes of $250,000 or more tha...
Poll: Romney opens 8 point lead over Obama The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 42% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undeci...
Obama labels as 'criminals' and anti-American those who donate to Romney WSJ: "This past week, one of campaign websites posted an item entitled "Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney's donors." In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing ...
Jon Huntsman: 'We've Forgotten to Put Country First' According to Jon Huntsman, Jr., former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate, "partisanship has seeped into campaigning that breaking through with a message that is beyond party politics ... is a very challenging thing to do." Yet ...
Google+ to live stream Republican National Convention VentureBeat.com: "Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today." Link...
Amidst the carnage, Syria finds a loyal ally in Hugo Chávez At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is helping to prop him up. The facts and figures coming out...
Cory "The Superhero" Booker saves another human being Batman and the Superman have left Newark once Cory Booker became its mayor. No one can stand up to Cory. He took Batman's job of saving people's lives and gave it to a local guy... that is to himself. Cory is a one man Mayor, one man Army, one man Fire De...
Obama launches war against stay-at-home moms, Twitter reacts The Obama Campaign has launched the war on stay-at-home moms... and then they realized it's probably a bad idea and started apologizing after a huge outcry on Twitter erupted. Shaun McDonnell ‏ @McShauno Ann Romney has raised more kids than Oba...
Porn industry advocates to vote for @BarackObama The porn industry released a video advocating to vote for Rick Santorum because only Santorum ensures that Obama will win in November. The win of any of the Republican candidates would mean that masturbating would be outlawed in America. ...
[VIDEO] Rick Santorum calls Obama "a government nigger" Woops. It looks like Rick Santorum had a bad tongue slip. He probably wanted to call Barack Obama a government "niggard," which means stingy or ungenerous, but he ended up calling him a "nigger". Will Barack Obama say that Rick Santorum could be his own s...
[VIDEO] Watch Barack Obama singing 'I'm sexy and I know it' He can pass an unconstitutional health care law. He can stimulate the economy with trillions of dollars. He can run up the public debt to the Greece's limits. He can call a beer summit. He can speak out loudly when a black professor is being arrested by a...
Diego Arria in the Foreign Policy magazine on war crimes in Bosnia Our editor, Ambassador Diego Arria - the former presidential candidate in Venezuela - was quoted by the Foreign Policy magazine, alongside former U.S. President Bill Clinton in an op-ed about war crimes in Bosnia & Herzegovina during the war in Yugo...
Montreal University scientists couldn't find a single man in Canada who didn't watch a porn movie "Scientists studying the effects of pornography fell at the first hurdle - after failing to find a man who had not viewed X-rated material. The researchers were comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography to regular u...
Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin was a registered Democrat Recently we found out that if Barack Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. Perhaps because of the same color of skin, who knows. Today we found out that "the individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting is a register...
Cory Booker sets his eyes on 2016 presidential race, boosts his foreign policy credentials The charismatic Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, met with Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss economic issues but also U.S. foreign policy and NATO's intervention in Afghanistan. Apparently, Booker already is boosting his foreign policy c...
Video of Obama in 2008: "I promise you to lower gas prices if you vote for me" Credibility is what makes people follow a leader. Leader who says one thing but does the other cannot be taken seriously. Here are Mr. Obama's promises from 2008 to lower gas prices and then his words in 2012 that lowering gas prices is a cheap political ...
T-Mobile to lay off 1,900 employees, close call centers in 6 states VentureBeat: The job cuts will come from closing centers in Allentown, Penn.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Frisco, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; Lenexa, Kansas; Thornton, Colo.; and Redmond, Ore. Around 3,300 employees at the seven impacted facilities will be let ...
Santorum: Obama is a better choice than Mitt Romney Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn't the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy. Link...
Report: Obama piles up more cash than entire Republican field FoxNews.com: "The Republican Party's extended primary campaign has allowed President Barack Obama to build a huge financial lead for the fall election. New fundraising reports released Tuesday show that Obama is stockpiling cash as the GOP hopefuls ...
Diego Arria formula to be used to mediate in the Syrian conflict Someways similar to Syria today, war crimes were being committed against the citizens ofBosnia & Herzegovina in 1992 as newly independent country was under horrific assault bySlobodan Milosevic’s and Ratko Mladic’s Serbian forces. Similar to...
Romney inches it out in Illinois, time for Gingrich to get out of the race FoxNews.com: Mitt Romney left Rick Santorum with a dwindling number of opportunities to shake up the race, at least for another month, after trouncing his chief rival in the Illinois Republican primary Tuesday. Link...
Eurozone Economy Shrinks in 4Q A collapse in household spending, exports and manufacturing sucked the life out of the euro zone's economy in the final months of 2011, the EU said on Tuesday, showing the scope of the downturn that looks set to become a fully fledged recession. Link...
Steve Bridges impersonator of George W. Bush dies at 48, watch his greatest moments Steve Bridges, 48, a comic actor and impersonator who was best known for his mimicry of President George W. Bush and appeared alongside the chief executive at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Assn. dinner, was found dead Saturday at his home in Los An...
Rick Santorum: ‘I Would Consider’ Air Strikes in Syria I spoke to Rick Santorum by phone for a few minutes on Monday afternoon as he rode across Ohio on the eve of tomorrow’s Super Tuesday extravaganza. The interview mostly covered ground for a piece you can read in the upcoming issue of TIME. But I did ask...
John McCain calls for air strikes against Assad Sen. John McCain on Monday became the first senator to call for airstrikes against Syria, saying President Barack Obama has taken too soft a stand against President Bashar Assad and his brutal crackdown on his own people. Link...
Daily Kos trying to stage protests at Andrew Breitbart's funeral... well, there is never shortage of liberal pinheads Although the news of Andrew Breitbart’s death is still fairly fresh, the merry band of faceless marauders at the Daily Kos have decided it is time to use his death as an opportunity to make political hay. A post dated March 1 by “dragon82a,” t...
Yelp Prices IPO Valued at $900M Yelp Inc priced its initial public offering of class A common stock at $15 a share, above the expected price range, valuing the U.S. consumer review website at nearly $900 million. Link...
Bill Clinton increases anti-Obama rhetoric, says we should embrace Keystone Pipeline Former President Bill Clinton said the federal government should embrace the Keystone XL pipeline that the Obama administration rejected last month. Clinton also said that one of the “best things” about being out of office is “you can say whatev...
Huffington Post calls Catholics a barbaric cult A group of socially conservative leaders is demanding Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington apologize for allowing a column to be published on her website that compares Catholics to pedophiles and attacks communion as a "barbaric ritual." Link...
Green energy company given Obama stimulus funds lays off 125 workers, gives pay raise to executives An electric car battery company reportedly has laid off 125 employees since receiving $390 million in government subsidies, but is still handing out big pay raises to company executives. Link...
Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland According to Poland's Gazeta Prawna, Groupon has captured 76.08% of the daily deal market in Poland with 286,6 million of PLN ($91 million) in sales in 2011. The next largest competitor is a local clone of Groupon - the Gruper which captured 12,13% of th...
Billary Clinton certain Obama will get reelected Hillary Clinton: ""He's our president. He represents all of the United States, and he will be reelected president, so I think that that will be a very clear signal to the entire world as to what our values are and what our president believes," she said,...
President Obama Confident He's Got Five More Years in White House President Obama pressed with confidence about his future at the White House saying, "I've got another five years coming up," when asked why he hasn't passed immigration reform in a radio interview Wednesday with Univision. Link...
Review: NO ENEMIES, NO HATRED: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo is in the Jinzhou Prison in the Liaoning Province of China serving an 11-year prison term. His “crime:” drafting and promoting Charter ‘08, a manifesto that demands human rights and democratic reforms in China. Although known in human r...
NJ Gov. Chris Christie vetoes gay marriage bill, sets eyes for 2016 presidential race DailyCaller: "Gov. Chris Christie has followed through on his promise to reject a bill allowing same-sex marriage in New Jersey by quickly vetoing the measure Friday and renewing his call for a ballot question to decide the issue." Link...
Google enters 2012 race, manipulates search engine results for Romney and Santorum to help Obama win Fox News: "A Google bomb is the intentional manipulation of a search engine to return a specific result, thanks to large numbers of relevant links or related searches. One recently uncovered by FoxNews.com connected the search string define: to certai...
Rasmussen: Obama 47% - Romney 43%, Obama 48% - Santorum 42% Rasmussen Reports: "In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president posts a 47% to 43% lead over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. If former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is the Republican nominee, the president leads 48% to 42%." Link...
Hundreds rally against Alabama immigration law Fox News: "Hundreds packed the Alabama Statehouse courtyard on Tuesday to rally against the state's tough immigration law, with organizers saying they chose to send a message on Valentine's Day that lawmakers need to love and respect immigrants." Link...
Samuel L. Jackson: I voted for Obama because he is black.. oh, well, what a surprise Acclaimed actor, Samuel L. Jackson, publicly admitted that he voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because Obama is black. Seriously? What a surprise. Nobody would expect. Over 80% of African Americans voted for Obama in 2008. The definition of democracy is suc...
Whitney Houston passes away at 48 Yahoo News: "Whitney Houston, the iconic American singer whose battles with drugs, alcohol and ex-husband Bobby Brown marred her star power, has died. She was 48. Houston's publicist confirmed the singer's death to ABC News. Her cause and location of d...
Jon Huntsman joins Ford Board of Directors Motor Trend: "Two senior executives at Ford Motor Company have announced they will retire in April, and Ford announced it will place former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr. on its board of directors." Link...
Greece decreases pensions, minimum wages by 20%, GDP to shrink by 5% Bloomberg: "Greece will pledge permanent spending cuts, including lower pension payments and a 20 percent reduction in the minimum wage, as the economy contracts this year at a faster pace than originally estimated, according to the draft of a new finan...
Mitt Romney: "I don't care about poor people" TheDC: "On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to a statement former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made earlier in the day that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”�...
U.S. company making Santorum sweater vests is booming The Bemidji Pioneer: "Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call for a return to “Made in America” production also includes “Made in Bemidji” as part of his campaign. The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania donned a royal blue swe...
Sarah Palin and Herman Cain: Vote for Newt! TheDC: "Well, when both party machines and many in the media are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide and bucking the establishment that tells you something.” Based on that, Palin told viewers to “rage against the machine” and to �...
Romney breaks into 2 digit lead ahead of Gingrich before FL primary Rasmussen: "The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, conducted Saturday, shows Romney up by 16 points with 44% support. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a distant second at 28%. " Link...
Stopping Genocide: the Responsibility to Protect Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings? During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution of Europe's ...
Chris Christie: New Gingrich has embarrassed the party in the past "On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Former Speaker of House Newt Gingrich “has embarrassed the party over time,” and that “we don’t need another legislature in the Oval Office.” In the Republican ...
Mitt Romney Opposition's File Who is real Mitt Romney? Is he trully a conservative or a leftist liberal? What does his birth certificate say? How many companies did he destroy if any? How many people did he fire in his business career? Is his wife suffering from multiple sclerosis? Th...
3 new SC polls: Newt Gingrich ahead of Mitt Romney TheDC: "In three South Carolina polls released Wednesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bested former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had previously maintained a lead in the state." Link...
NYTimes: Jon Huntsman to drop out of GOP race on Monday morning NYTimes: "Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary." Link...
Michelle Obama plans to run for Senate in 2016 from Illinois TheDC: "In November 2016, Illinois voters will go to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. And although it is a long way off, could one of the names on the ticket be first lady Mich...
The largest SC newspaper endorses @JonHuntsman for President The State: "Mr. Huntsman is a true conservative, with a record and platform of bold economic reform straight out of the free-market bible, but he’s a realist, whose goal is likewise to get things done. Under his leadership, Utah led the nation in job cr...
Mitt Romney has a secret: Mitt the Ripper Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people, my friends!" That's what Mitt said about his experience at Bain Capital before he tore some companies apart. Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super PAC just released a new ad summarizing Mitt's performa...
Poll: Americans fear Obama's re-election more than Iran's nuclear weapon U.S. News & World Report: According to the newest poll conducted by the newspaper: "As we enter the presidential election year of 2012, what potential news event do you fear the most? President Obama wins reelection 33% Taxes will increas...
Gov. Chris Christie attacks Jon Huntsman a day before NH primary TheDC: "In an appearance with “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski in Manchester, N.H. that aired on Monday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie alleged that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntman’s presidential run itself calls into question his integrity. C...
Rick Santorum: Will This Man be America's Next President? Evangelical Christian right is coalescing around Rick Santorum presumably due to his solid-right “social values” but also let's kick some ass foreign policy positions. He is anti-gay and anti-choice. He stated he is in favor of profiling Muslims at th...
Floyd "Cheap Shot" Mayweather goes to jail for 90 says! Happy New Year Floyd. TheDC: "Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a perfect 42-0 in the ring and has dodged significant jail time several times in domestic violence cases in Las Vegas and Michigan. But his courtroom streak came to an end Wednesday when a Las Vegas judge se...
Funniest tweets about Kim Jong Il death Here are some of the funniest tweets about Kim Jong Il's death. Poor bastard died last weekend and left his plumpy son, Kim Jong Un, to take over the country in which tens of thousands of people are starving to death every year. Some actors and actresses ...
Jon Huntsman gets endorsement from 2 New Hampshire newspapers, Mitt Romney scared Reuters: " Republican Jon Huntsman, who has based his 2012 campaign for the White House almost exclusively on a strong showing in New Hampshire, has been rewarded with endorsements from two newspapers in the state with an early primary election. The Kee...
Vaclav Havel dies at 75 CNN: "Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, Czech Television announced Sunday. Havel, a puckish, absurdist playwright turned political activist, spent four and...
Meaningful Peace A legacy of Swedish businessman and inventor Alfred Nobel, the nobility of its aim, to reward those who strive for peace, is seldom questioned, given that the answer seems evident. Of course we should choose peace over war, life over death. But let’s ...
We bet you 10K that Mitt Romney won't be the GOP nominee Yeah. It looks like Mitt Romney had another awkward moment in the last night's GOP debate organized by ABC News & the increasingly leftist Yahoo.com, which may be even worse than the infamous Rick Perry's brain freeze. Well, Romney tried to bet Rick P...
Uganda: A Brutal Reality Obscured General Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda for more than 25 years. Since taking power in a 1986 military coup, he has stacked this Central African country's voting commission with his henchmen and stolen its elections. Having abolished presidential ter...
Islamic cleric in Europe bans women from proximity to phallus-shaped bananas, cucumbers and carrots "An Egyptian news outlet has a report that is causing an unusual stir. According to the Bikya Masr news service, an Islamic cleric in Europe has ordered Muslim women to prevent “sexual thoughts” by staying away from bananas, cucumbers, carrots, zucchi...
Charles Krauthammer: ‘Obama is more like Hugo Chávez than he is Teddy Roosevelt’ TheDC: "In his Friday Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer criticized the president for waging class warfare on the so-called “1 percent” and likened the brand of populism he offered in a speech last week to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, an...
Cory Booker to run against Chris Christie for Governorship of New Jersey The Boston Globe speculates that Newark's Mayor, Cory Booker, may run against Gov. Chris Christie for the governorship of the state of New Jersey in the upcoming elections. Both gentlemen are rising starts of their respective parties. Cory Booker is a c...
Saudi Arabia: Allowing women to drive cars would mean ‘no more virgins’ DailyCaller.com: "Saudi Arabia has a problem: Some of its women want to drive, but the kingdom wants to make sure there are virgins in the country. Based on a new report from the Saudi highest religious council — the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala — and...
Rasmussen Poll: Jon Huntsman finally breaking into two digits support in New Hampshire GOP primary Rasmussen Poll: "The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters in New Hampshire shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on top at 34%, followed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 24%. Ten points behi...