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Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words "illegal alien." A group that supports strict immigration laws says such a move impinges on freedom of speech. ...more
October 21, 2009
It looks like Kanye West has finally given a personal apology to Taylor Swift. ...more
September 15, 2009
The uproar over President Obama addressing the nation's schoolchildren to promote education is absolutely asinine. ...more
September 8, 2009
It is absolutely unbelievable how dumb the Obama administration thinks the American public is. They put forth a plan to buy the "toxic assets" of banks, which they now call "legacy assets," and try to convince us that this will be done by the private sector. ...more
March 29, 2009
Struggling to contain the worst financial crisis in seven decades, the Obama administration wants to buy billions of dollars of toxic assets from banks to ease borrowing for consumers and businesses. ...more
March 22, 2009
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could announce as soon as Monday his much-anticipated plan to get toxic assets off the books of the country's struggling banks, administration and industry officials said. ...more
March 21, 2009
Just a few weeks ago, Michelle Obama was the fashion industry's darling for bringing much-needed style to the White House; even drawing comparisons to Jackie Kennedy for her wardrobe choices. Now, Obama has fallen out of favor with fashion critics because she has been (gasp) showing her arms. ...more
March 8, 2009
President Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave an assessment Thursday of his former congregant's short time in the White House: Obama is just like any other president. ...more
March 6, 2009
No one wants to see the return of the day when Florida businesses were bombarded by crippling workers' compensation claims. But reforms adopted by the Legislature in 2003, as the state Supreme Court found, went too far. ...more
March 4, 2009
In an about-face following a torrent of online protests, Facebook is backing off a change in its user policies while it figures how best to resolve questions like who controls the information shared on the social networking site. ...more
February 19, 2009
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