May 17, 2011 – The ongoing battle between the NFL owners and players took another turn as the owners won a critical victory Monday. The federal appeals court found for the owners and against the players as they granted a stay from a previously court ordered injunction that would have lifted the lockout. In an [...]
May 17, 2011 – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the weekend on charges of attempted rape and other criminal charges. He stands accused of sexual assault of a 35 year-old maid in his New York hotel room. The Manhattan Criminal Court case alleges Strauss-Kahn “engaged in sexual conduct with [...]
May 17, 2011 – Donald Trump has been flirting with the idea of running for president for months now. He has come out publicly and criticized President Obama for not being tough enough on China and OPEC. He challenged Obama to release his “real” birth certificate and when he complied the real estate tycoon took [...]
May 16, 2011 – Today the United States officially reached its current debt ceiling. Special measures by the Obama administration have held off a default on the $14.3 trillion debt until August 2. President Obama is officially sounding the panic alarm over congress’s failure to come to agreement on terms and raise the debt ceiling. [...]
May 16, 2011 – Mike Huckabee announced he will not seek the nomination for Republican candidate for president in the 2012 election. Huckabee has been seen as a front-runner and while many believed he would run, his dropping out of the contest leaves a major void in the Republican bid for the White House. The [...]
May 16, 2011 – A letter of appreciation from the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to our country’s teachers may have fallen flat. The letter came from President Obama’s chief education official and in part reads, “I have a deep and genuine appreciation for the work you do.” ” You deserve to be respected, [...]
May 16, 2011 – Promoters of the Amgen Tour of California had to know they were taking a risk when they scheduled the first stage of the race to begin in South Lake Tahoe, mid May. They studied the weather statics and made the decision to move forward. With snow in the forecast and light [...]
May 16, 2011 – Billy Graham returned home from the hospital Sunday after a spending five days hospitalized for pneumonia. The well known evangelist checked into Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. Wednesday. Spokesman for Mission Hospital said the 92-year-old was responding well to treatment, is regaining strength, but that recovery would be slow. Graham’s primary [...]
May 15, 2011 – It’s been an exceptionally tough weather season for folks who live near the great Mississippi River. And a season of very tough choices; larger more populated cities have been chosen to be spared while small towns and agricultural ranches have been flooded, resulting in lost homes and farmland. The army corps [...]
May 15, 2011 – Protestors took to the streets today in Sana, the capital of Yemen, calling for the immediate departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Protests began when the government and opposition forces failed to sign a plan that would have Saleh giving up his 32 year rule. The April 21 initiative was presented [...]
