This is one of the craziest, yet wrongful rumors that spread among American citizens: Barack Obama is a Muslim! And this is not going to do any good to Obama’s latest drop in the polls. According to two new US opinion polls out Thursday (Pew and Time.com), almost one in five Americans think Barack Obama, [...]
Today we celebrate 90 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Google celebrates this important day with a message below the search bar. Why Google didn’t do a Google Doodle is a mystery! The Google message states “90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment”. Although the United States of [...]
President Barack Obama is celebrating his 49th birthday today. He will spend his birthday without his wife and his daughters, as Michelle Obama is vacationing in Marbella, Spain with daughter Sasha. The other daughter of the President, Malia, is away in a summer camp. The President’s birthday schedule won’t be that busy. First, he will [...]
Barack Obama, the President of the USA, has signed into law the most sweeping financial reform since the great depression. This reform, says president Obama, has been made with one thought in mind – to protect the citizen, as he interacts with the financial system. He said that a consumer watchdog will be the one [...]
Canada has increased security operations as leaders of rich and developing nations will attend the G8 and G20 summits that will take place between 24-27 June. Leaders from Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, United States, Russia and Canada will meet at Deerhurst Resort, 133 miles from Toronto. The security operations include closing the resort to [...]
A longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas announced on Monday she is going to retire. The 89-year-old press lady was the dean of the White House press corps. Helen Thomas is well known for her outspoken nature, for her direct questions and objective articles. Thomas’s retirement comes after a recent video showing the White House dean [...]
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will suspend – at least for the time being – all exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic for this year, being afraid of a disaster comparable with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, said an anonymous source inside The White House. This means that the Beaufort and Chukchi seas [...]
The Arizona House of Representatives, on Tuesday, approved a bill that would involve more local communities in the fight against illegal immigration, despite the arguments of his opponents that would not increase public safety. The bill would create a new figure of a misdemeanor in the state: Do not display or carry an identification document [...]
82.7 percent of Americans support a presidential veto of legislation containing unnecessary Congressional spending The Council for Retirement Security (CRS), a program of the nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots citizens organization Our Generation, has released a survey that found that 82.7 percent of respondents support a presidential veto to prevent Congress from spending money from the Social [...]
Health and Development Groups Applaud Clinton Speech; Call for Action A broad coalition of organizations representing millions of Americans applauded statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the United States unequivocally supports the worldwide consensus that achieving universal access to reproductive health is critical for individual health, family well-being, broader economic development and a [...]