Business
The 8 Richest People In Baseball
When baseball players haggle with teams over contracts, it is often described as "millionaires fighting with billionaires." But in reality, there are surprisingly few billionaire owners in baseball. When Forbes.com recently released the 2013 … [Read More...]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has Scheduled A Mysterious Press Conference For Monday (YHOO)
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will make some kind of an announcement on Monday. The press conference was first tweeted by CNBC, and confirmed by other publications. Obviously, some people think that Mayer will announce that Yahoo is buying Tumblr for … [Read More...]
TOP VETERANS’ ADVOCATE: Obama’s Budget Contains One Of The Most Galling Mistakes Of His Presidency
As a concession to Republican members of Congress who want to see meaningful entitlement reform President Barack Obama included in his budget the so-called … [Read More...]
There Are Only A Few Hours Left For Facebook To Rush In And Break Up The Yahoo-Tumblr Deal
Yahoo's board is meeting Sunday evening to decide whether to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka reported last night. So that means there are only a few hours left for Facebook to submit a compelling counter-offer. … [Read More...]
US Politics
President and First Lady to Host Concert Honoring Carole King in the East Room – Whitehouse.gov (press release)
Washington Times (blog)President and First Lady to Host Concert Honoring Carole King in the East RoomWhitehouse.gov (press release)President Obama will present the award as he did when the Library of Congress honored Stevie Wonder (2009), Sir … [Read More...]
After tough week, Obama tries to change the subject to jobs – Reuters
The White House (blog)After tough week, Obama tries to change the subject to jobsReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening to swamp his agenda to the economy by … [Read More...]
Markey Still Edging Out Gomez in Massachusetts Senate Race – U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World ReportMarkey Still Edging Out Gomez in Massachusetts Senate RaceU.S. News & World ReportThe race to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat has come into focus, with a little more than a month left before … [Read More...]
Foreign Policy
A man, the state and war: The legacy of Kenneth Waltz (1924-2013) – The Interpreter
A man, the state and war: The legacy of Kenneth Waltz (1924-2013)The InterpreterFrom these snippets Waltz assembled three 'images' of international relations: one that explained the behaviour of states in terms of the drives, faults and … [Read More...]
A Conversation with Stephen Harper – Council on Foreign Relations
CBC.caA Conversation with Stephen HarperCouncil on Foreign RelationsNow obviously it's a significant part of the -- of our own pressures in terms of our targets, the targets we share -- we share a Copenhagen target with the United States. We … [Read More...]
Eurocepticism no bar to close British-French defence ties – The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)Eurocepticism no bar to close British-French defence tiesThe Guardian (blog)He stressed the need for "concrete" steps with decisions taken by "sovereign" nation states. Other European countries were welcome to join in such … [Read More...]
Justice
GOP Senate Candidate Freaks Out Over Gun Ad, Claims Opponent Is Blaming Him For Newtown
Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez (R-MA)Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee to fill John Kerry’s open Senate seat in Massachusetts, Tweeted a stunning attack against his opponent Friday, claiming, without any apparent justification, that a … [Read More...]
Is The ‘James Bond’ Gun Bill A Silver Bullet Against Gun Violence?
You may start seeing more people carrying James Bond’s gun around — by law. A new proposed federal law would require that all new guns, and eventually all guns for sale, would be required to have “smart” identification … [Read More...]
Meet Stingrays, The Surveillance Tech The Government Doesn’t Want To Talk About
For nearly two decades U.S. law enforcement agencies have used counter-terrorism devices known as “stingrays” after the brand name of one variant or ISMI (international mobile subscriber identity)-catchers to track locations in … [Read More...]
Elections 2012
Tea party groups call IRS process ‘nightmare’
Anger over President Barack Obama's policies drove businessman Tom Zawistowski to file paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service nearly three years ago to create the Ohio Liberty Coalition. His nonprofit ... … [Read More...]
Books, Media Interviews, and Phone Calls: Tea Party Groups Describe to Us the Detailed Information Demanded by the IRS
"We knew they were playing games with us at that point." … [Read More...]
Five ways the IRS scandal will change Washington
Toss a pebble into a lake and the ripples spread far and wide. Lob a scandal, in which the anti-tax tea party is under attack by its nemesis, the Internal Revenue Service, into the shark-infested waters of Washington, and well, the political … [Read More...]
World News
Malaysia Leader Names Cabinet – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalMalaysia Leader Names CabinetWall Street JournalKUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak named a new cabinet with a mix of technocrats, including the chief executive of the largest local bank, and career … [Read More...]
Palestinian group in Syria says fired rockets at Golan – Ynetnews
SBSPalestinian group in Syria says fired rockets at GolanYnetnewsAn unknown Palestinian group named the "Halal Abd al-Qader al-Husseini" claimed to have fired on Wednesday rockets at an Israeli observation point in the Golan Heights to mark … [Read More...]
Baghdad Shia districts targeted in deadly Iraq attacks – BBC News
BBC NewsBaghdad Shia districts targeted in deadly Iraq attacksBBC NewsAt least 34 people have been killed in series of bomb attacks across Iraq, several of which targeted mainly Shia districts of Baghdad, officials say. Eleven blasts in the … [Read More...]
Politics & Media
Romney Blasts Obama, Tells Leno: ‘Not A Fan Of The President’, Blames Obama For IRS Targeting
2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Friday night, and took President Obama to task on the … [Read More...]
Glenn Beck Goes Off On NAACP: They Are A ‘Joke’, ‘Affront’ to Memory of Martin Luther King
Not surprisingly, Glenn Beck has thoughts on the IRS political targeting scandal, going off on the NAACP on his radio show, calling the group a … [Read More...]
S.E. Cupp Blasts Michael Moore Over Guns: Stop ‘Intimidating’ And Treating Gun Owners Like ‘Pariahs’
Bill Maher brought up the gun issue again tonight to slam liberals for not being tough enough, but the segment quickly turned into a heated … [Read More...]
Bill Maher And Michael Moore Tear Apart GOP Obstruction: This Is ‘Treason,’ ‘They Hate America’
Bill Maher and Michael Moore both tore into Republicans over the GOP-led House voting for the 37th time to repeal Obamacare. Maher rolled his … [Read More...]
Economy
How Women May Take The Blame For A Man’s Disastrous Trade At JP Morgan
Following the London Whale trading scandal that cost JP Morgan at least $6 billion, Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is facing pressure from … [Read More...]
How Piecemeal Fixes Will Make Sequestration Worse
Photo credit: The Memphis Flyer A report out today from the Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee shows costly new flaws in … [Read More...]
The Social Safety Net Is Staving Off Income Inequality
Income inequality around the world increased more during the financial crisis that it did in the previous 12 years, according to new data from … [Read More...]
How The IRS Could Make It Easier To Track Dark Money, Right Now
While much of the attention currently focused on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) surrounds the agency’s acknowledgement that non-profit … [Read More...]
