By GRANT PHILLIPS Robert Reich’s new video series focuses on ten problems in our economy. In video number four, Reich offers various measures to “tame Wall Street” because “Wall Street screwed us once.” His proposal is a concoction of talking points from “greedy bankers” and “too big to fail” to “inequality” and “fairness.” To Reich’s…
Juliegrace Brufke President Barack Obama is expected to cover a wide range of topics topics Tuesday during his last State of the Union, and it’s pretty unlikely that one of them will be exploding health care costs under Obamacare. Freedom Partners, an Arlington, Va.-based conservative non-profit, reported Sunday that premiums in the individual market place will jump in all but…
Blake Neff With the Powerball lottery jackpot currently at an unfathomably enormous $1.4 billion as of Monday afternoon, many people likely have questions about how, exactly, the lottery works. Thankfully, Powerball itself has you covered with its refreshingly honest, surprisingly bizarre Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page that is filled with humor one doesn’t normally associate…
Democratic sources are saying that Secretary of State John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden, or even Al Gore could be tapped as a late entry if Hillary Clinton is unable to get the job done. With Bernie Sanders nipping at her heals and the FBI investigation on her getting more serious by the day, Democratic…
Even if You Did Give Everyone $4.3 Million, Poverty Would Get Worse [dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] popular meme going around Facebook attempts to paint the narrative that giving everyone $4.3 million from the Powerball would solve poverty for good. Not only is the math for this completely wrong, but the economics behind this whole concept wouldn’t work…
Andrew Follett NASA announced Friday that it has formalized a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to defend Earth from asteroids that could potentially end humanity. The new office will aggregate previously existing American asteroid detection programs such as the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search, and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System. The office will also work…
The investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been expanded to include the financial activities of the Clinton Foundation and their correlation with contracts given out be the State Department. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox reports: The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded…
20% of Democrats Would Jump Ship for Trump [dropcap size=big]Y[/dropcap]ou’re probably thinking, “BS! No Democrat would even consider voting for someone like Donald J. Trump!” Well, according to a poll from Mercury Analytics, a company whose clients include Fox and MSNBC, you’d be wrong! Nearly 20% of Democrats would take Trump over the current Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton….
Pop rock legend David Bowie’s final video before losing his battle with cancer seems like an emotional farewell. For a star like Bowie, this final act is a poignant one, reminding us of his tireless devotion to his art. The video shows Bowie seemingly scrambling to complete his final album and jumps back and forth…
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