In a departure from recent years, Congress seems on the verge of presenting President Obama with a budget intended to put a stop to the succession of fiscal crises and threats of government shutdown. The bipartisan budget, which is set to pass the Senate on Wednesday,...
Years from now, the college sports world will look back upon today as perhaps the most significant time in its history. It is a time of palatial prosperity for the National Collegiate Athletic Association; unprecedented profits and popularity have catapulted its...
Black jack and roulette. Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Belvedere. The Cosmopolitan and Trump Towers. Stealing and arbitration? The last two words may throw you for a loop, but they certainly fit into the bigger picture that is Las Vegas. Over the past few decades Las...
Consumers may be unaware of their predicament, but in the United States they have been treated to a series of resolutions prohibiting their power to gain justice through the legal system. Whether leasing a car, mortgaging a condo, or buying a new cell phone, consumers...
On December 9th, 2013 the coldest temperature ever recorded came in at a beyond bone-chilling level of 135.8 degrees below zero. This is another in a long string of recent scientific findings that the earth has been cooling at a rapid rate, an obvious contradiction to...
Apparently, the 30-year-old supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, decided a public reminder of his power was in order, which was bad news for his uncle, Jang Song Thaek. The move – a public arrest at a party meeting – was allegedly due to corruption...
Unhappy with the current minimum wage, fast-food workers – spurred on by labor organizations like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) – took to the picket line Thursday in support of a $15 an hour minimum wage. SEIU leaders claimed that...
Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison for sabotage, but eventually rose to become the nation’s first black president, passed away today at the age of 95. He had been hospitalized for several weeks with a lung infection....
According to his attorney, engineer William Rockefeller testified to the National Transportation Safety Board that he experienced a hypnotic-like “daze” in the moment before the commuter train he was piloting jumped the tracks, killing four people. Jeffrey Chartier,...
A perhaps counter-intuitive study in Austin, Texas, has arrived at the conclusion that everyone is installing their solar panels to face in the wrong direction, at least in the northern hemisphere. For generations, architects and common sense have told us that “up”...
