What Change
Social Security Ran $47.8B Deficit in FY 2012; Disabled Workers Hit New Record in December: 8,827,795
CNSNews.com) - The Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal 2012 as the program brought in $725.429 billion in cash and paid $773.247 for benefits and overhead expenses, according toofficial data published by Social Security Administration.
The Social Security Administration also released new data revealing that the number of workers collecting disability benefits hit a record […]
Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom dispensers (Moral Decay)
The Philadelphia Health Department will install clear plastic dispensers brimming with free condoms at 22 of Philadelphia’s public high schools over winter break.
The schools chosen for the pilot program have the highest rates of students infected with sexually transmitted diseases in the city, Philly.com reports. All students — even those as young as 14 — […]
55 Reasons Why You Should Buy Products That Are Made In America This Holiday Season
This is the time of the year when Americans run out to their favorite retail stores and fill up their shopping carts with lots of cheap plastic crap made by workers in foreign countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages. By doing this, the American people are actively participating in the destruction […]
22 Statistics That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America
There is even a name for this generation of young men that does not want to grow up. It is called the “Peter Pan generation”. They want to enjoy the benefits of being grown up without ever taking on the responsibilities. A member of this “Peter Pan generation” recent wrote an article for the Daily Mail in […]
75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe (MUST READ)
Michael SnyderEconomic CollapseDecember 21, 2012
What a year 2012 has been! The mainstream media continues to tell us what a “great job” the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class. It is imperative that we […]
Union to Michigan Governor: ‘We’ll Be at Your Daughter’s Soccer Game’ (Thugs)
A speaker at a protest against Michigan’s right-to-work legislation said that Republican governor Rick Snyder will “get no rest” from pro-union activists if Snyder signs the bill into law.
“Just know one thing, Rick Snyder: You sign that bill, you won’t get no rest,” said Rev. Charles Williams II at the Tuesday rally in Lansing, according to Michigan Capitol […]
Source: Obama has chosen John Kerry as Secretary of State
President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.
His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Sneed source said.
This comes on the heels of Thursday’s announcement that U.N. […]
Obama: I’m not a socialist (LOL)
President Barack Obama on Thursday brushed aside concerns that he favors socialism, saying in an interview with Univision that his policies are so mainstream that he would have been considered a moderate Republican in the 1980s.
Via the transcript of the interview by Alina Mayo Azze of “Noticias Univision 23″ in Miami:
AMA: One issue that Cuban-Americans […]
MASSACRE: 27 Dead, Including 18 Children, At Sandy Hook School Shooting In Newtown
NEWTOWN—
Twenty-seven people, including 18 children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to the Associated Press.
Another person was found dead at 36 Yogananda St. in Newtown, sources told The Courant.
Read the whole story at Courant.com
It’s The End of America As We Know It
“It’s a tragedy.” So said Dennis Prager upon first hearing the news that Ohio had gone to Obama, thus deciding the Election 2012 outcome in these United States, November 6, 2012. I would add my own thought as a lifelong Buckeye: It is embarrassing.
By reelecting Barack Obama, we have made a choice as a nation that is […]
Food Stamp Participation Jumped by Over 600K in September; Last Pre-Election Number Revised Up
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest report on food stamp program participation through September today. I received the email alerting me to the release at 5:17 p.m., so it seems reasonable to believe that USDA and the Barack Obama administration wanted the new data to get as little attention as possible (as will […]
Afghanistan: 14-Year-Old Girl Beheaded for Refusing a Marriage Proposal
In Afghanistan last week, two brothers slit the throat of Gastina, a seventh-grade girl, for refusing a marriage proposal. It wasn’t an isolated incident. By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau.
Fourteen-year-old Gastina probably didn’t realize the imminent danger she was facing.
As the seventh-grade student was fetching drinking water at 9 a.m. from a well some 500 […]
Sign of the times:Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque’ sparks controversy
A Muslim prayer center, which has been dubbed Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque, opened in the French capital this week. Its founder described it as the first step in breaking “prejudices in Islam”, but it has been criticized by religious leaders.
Read the whole story at France24
Palestinian Authority President Declares Jerusalem ‘Eternal Capital of Palestine’
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Sunday promised someday the PA flag would fly over “Jerusalem, eternal capital of the state of Palestine.”
Thousands of people greeted Abbas rapturously upon his return from the United Nations, where the General Assembly granted the PLO, representing the PA, upgraded status as a nonmember observer state.
“Raise your heads high, because you […]
RALPH NADER: WAR CRIMINAL OBAMA WORSE THAN BUSH
“He’s gone beyond George W. Bush in drones, for example. He thinks the world is his plate, that national sovereignties mean nothing, drones can go anywhere.”
Read the whole story at Breitbart.com
Chris Matthews Has On Air Gas Attack: ‘Excuse Me - I’m Burping Here’
Chris Matthews’ detractors have for years alleged that he’s sometimes drunk when he does his program on MSNBC.
His gas attack on Friday’s Hardball will certainly add to this speculation, especially as it ended with the host actually saying, “Excuse me - I’m burping here” (video follows with commentary).
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/30/chris-matthews-has-air-gas-attack-excuse-me-im-burping-here
Five theories about Obama’s meeting with Romney
… Obama is having Mitt Romney over for lunch on Thursday and their meeting is already generating a lot of buzz. Here are five theories about the White House’s motives….
1. Obama is extending a common courtesy…
2. Obama will offer Romney a Cabinet job…
3. Obama will enlist Romney in the fiscal cliff debate…
4. Obama wants Romney’s […]
Give Obama what he wants: Implosion is exactly what America needs in order to find its fiscal way
The best thing the Republicans could do right now is to give Obama everything that he wants. Those of us who think, rather than feel, understand that Obama’s course will end up with the United States going bankrupt, because there isn’t enough money on the planet, much less the US, to pay for all the […]
Naked Protesters Storm Boehner’s Office
Twitter / @chrisgeidner
BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner tweets this photo of a group of nude protesters who stormed into House Majority Leader Rep. John Boehner’s (R-OH) office on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon.
Fox has learned that seven demonstrators from the group Act Up came into the personal office of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in the Longworth House Office Building around […]
What Change? US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014
Some 10,000 US troops will remain in Afghanistan after NATO combat operations end at the end of 2014, US media reports said Sunday. The plan is in line with recommendations from General John Allen, commander of ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
The administration of President Barack Obama aims to keep around 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan after […]