When Missouri voters attempted to stop ObamaCare at the ballot box via the initiative process, the national news media took notice. In the August 3 vote, 7 in 10 voters in the “Show Me State” supported Proposition C, which overturns government mandates requiring health insurance. Proposition C actually bars penalties against people who pay their own health bills without insurance.
Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard University professor, visited the White House on Friday to interview for a position on the newly created U.S. consumer financial protection agency.
Jonathan Lee, a 13-year-old boy from the United States, is on a peace mission to North Korea on Friday after bearing a letter to the communist nation’s leader urging the planting of a peace forest on the tense Korean border, saying, “I have high expectations.”
Sarah Palin will always be a Hail Mary Pass. She is a last-ditch, slapdash shot for a win. Regardless of facts, faux pas or folly, conservatives will continue to tout her as an asset as long as she continues to act like a battering ram to their opposition. If she still throws jabs, utterly doe-eyed to the implications (i.e. ripping on teleprompters in a prepared speech), the dreaded “elites” of her party will still use her for what she’s worth.
The trade deficit widened sharply in June to the highest level in 20 months from rising Chinese imports and waning exports, according to the Commerce Department.
It takes a certain kind of fortitude and leadership to take a strong stand against a small group of children. No, I’m not calling Congress “children.” Well, not directly. I’m referring to the barking by Republican leaders to repeal the 14th Amendment, which is interpreted to mean everyone (with few exceptions) born in the U.S. is automatically a U.S. citizen.
Where in the world is Dillingham, Alaska? Senator Ted Stevens died on Tuesday after flying in a plane that crashed near Dillingham, Alaska, 300 miles from Anchorage. What is the history of Dillingham, Alaska?
“My question to you is simple,” I said, as I sat across from the government bureaucrat and his interpreter. “Why doesn’t the government communicate in plain English?”
The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday in New York to consider new steps to keep the economy from declining as it struggles to pick up steam.
Just when you thought we were settling in for another typical, slow August news month, along comes Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to overturn California’s Proposition 8. The one that banned same-sex marriages. Did you get that? He overturned the ban. Loosed the bonds. Broke the chains. Raised a rainbow flag. And reopened a can of worms the size of the Louisiana Purchase.