White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking Swartz Prosecutor's Firing … A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove Aaron Swartz's prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist's suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures. That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities — including li...Read More
The birth dearth/empty cradle/baby bust is upon us, threatening consequences just as dire as the overpopulation bomb that Paul Ehrlich predicted would cause mass global starvation in the 1970s. The growing percentage of elderly in the population, the root cause of many of our problems, will soon render the United States economically feeble. This dire prophecy of underpopulation has gradually made...Read More
A breakthrough speech on monetary policy … Wednesday night may have marked the "emperor's new clothes" moment of the Great Recession, in which the world suddenly realizes its rulers are suffering from a delusion that doesn't have to be humored … That such economic fatalism is nonsensical is the key message of a truly historic speech delivered on Wednesday by Adair Tur...Read More
Rising power Qatar stirs unease among Back to top some Mideast neighbors … In Egypt, Libya and Syria, where Qatar tried to play a role post-Arab Spring, it finds itself blamed for much that has gone wrong on a local level. Close ties to Egypt's new leaders, the Muslim Brotherhood, have alarmed countries like the United Arab Emirates, where the Islamist group is still banned and which in...Read More
Lying liars at Esquire double down, falsely claim they disclosed former Navy SEAL's eligibility for VA benefits; Update: Esquire (finally) acknowledges error … Yesterday, Esquire magazine came out with an article falsely claiming that the former Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Ladin was not offered any health care benefits upon leaving the Navy. As Twitchy documented this morning, Esquire&#...Read More
Satellites Reveal Depletion of a Vital Middle East Water Supply … Just in case you needed more reasons to be concerned about the stability of the Middle East, new research using data from NASA's gravity-sensing Grace satellites shows a substantial decline in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins. Data gathered between 2003 and 2009 show the seasonal...Read More
Too Big to Succeed …On December 20, 1994 Mexico's newly installed president Ernesto Zedillo devalued the currency, the peso, by 15%. As a candidate he had said he would "defend the peso like a dog." That day the peso went from 3.47, where it had been for a year, to 3.95 and the trading floors of Wall Street were filled with the sounds of barking dogs … As the crisis conti...Read More
A breakthrough speech on monetary policy … Wednesday night may have marked the "emperor's new clothes" moment of the Great Recession, in which the world suddenly realizes its rulers are suffering from a delusion that doesn't have to be humored … That such economic fatalism is nonsensical is the key message of a truly historic speech delivered on Wednesday by Adair Tur...Read More
Rising power Qatar stirs unease among Back to top some Mideast neighbors … In Egypt, Libya and Syria, where Qatar tried to play a role post-Arab Spring, it finds itself blamed for much that has gone wrong on a local level. Close ties to Egypt's new leaders, the Muslim Brotherhood, have alarmed countries like the United Arab Emirates, where the Islamist group is still banned and which in...Read More
Lying liars at Esquire double down, falsely claim they disclosed former Navy SEAL's eligibility for VA benefits; Update: Esquire (finally) acknowledges error … Yesterday, Esquire magazine came out with an article falsely claiming that the former Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Ladin was not offered any health care benefits upon leaving the Navy. As Twitchy documented this morning, Esquire&#...Read More
Satellites Reveal Depletion of a Vital Middle East Water Supply … Just in case you needed more reasons to be concerned about the stability of the Middle East, new research using data from NASA's gravity-sensing Grace satellites shows a substantial decline in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins. Data gathered between 2003 and 2009 show the seasonal...Read More
Too Big to Succeed …On December 20, 1994 Mexico's newly installed president Ernesto Zedillo devalued the currency, the peso, by 15%. As a candidate he had said he would "defend the peso like a dog." That day the peso went from 3.47, where it had been for a year, to 3.95 and the trading floors of Wall Street were filled with the sounds of barking dogs … As the crisis conti...Read More
Report Spotlights 'Revolving Door' Issues at SEC … Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staffers who now work in the private sector may have helped derail last year's effort to reform the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry, a report said. The case study on money market fund lobbying is part of a 60-page report by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). It is o...Read More
The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden… Is Screwed. For the first time, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells his story — speaking not just about the raid and the three shots that changed history, but about the personal aftermath for himself and his family. And the startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled warriors carry on with the...Read More
Feds Set To Mandate "Black Box" Data Recorders In Every Car And Truck … Privacy advocates worry, but technology has caught bad drivers lying about accident causes … Accident investigators will soon have black-box data from all crashes, because of a new rule set to be finalized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration … Many motorists don't know it, but...Read More
Gadgets Report: Google Pays $700M to Apple for Prominent Mobile Search Placement … Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe also gets grilled about high prices by Australian regulators … According to Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Scott Devitt, Google Inc. (GOOG) paid about $700M USD to Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in 2012 to solidify its monopoly on mobile search traffic … Google's dominant position...Read More
Report Spotlights 'Revolving Door' Issues at SEC … Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staffers who now work in the private sector may have helped derail last year's effort to reform the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry, a report said. The case study on money market fund lobbying is part of a 60-page report by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). It is o...Read More
The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden… Is Screwed. For the first time, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells his story — speaking not just about the raid and the three shots that changed history, but about the personal aftermath for himself and his family. And the startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled warriors carry on with the...Read More
Feds Set To Mandate "Black Box" Data Recorders In Every Car And Truck … Privacy advocates worry, but technology has caught bad drivers lying about accident causes … Accident investigators will soon have black-box data from all crashes, because of a new rule set to be finalized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration … Many motorists don't know it, but...Read More
Gadgets Report: Google Pays $700M to Apple for Prominent Mobile Search Placement … Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe also gets grilled about high prices by Australian regulators … According to Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Scott Devitt, Google Inc. (GOOG) paid about $700M USD to Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in 2012 to solidify its monopoly on mobile search traffic … Google's dominant position...Read More