Sorry, John, Apple products such as the iPad, iPod, and iPhone are most certainly not ‘Made in the USA‘. This morning, Christiane Amanpour had a segment on ABC‘s “This Week“, discussing the further decline of manufacturing in the United States. She visually represented this by emptying a house of everything not made in America. When [...]
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Years ago, Vice Presidential Candidate Dan Quayle took to the airwaves following an episode of Murphy Brown where Murphy, played by Candace Bergen, gave birth as a single mother and publicly criticized it by saying: “It doesn’t help matters,” Quayle complained, when Brown, “a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman” is [...]
Jon Stewart skewered Fox News‘ blatant hypocrisy regarding pay levels for teachers versus pay levels for Wall Street CEO’s. To sum it up, according to Fox: Paying teachers $50,000/year is teachers being greedy while couples making more than $250,000 are “near poverty”. Bankers earn their money because they work 12 months a year, teachers don’t [...]
For months, nay, years, all we’ve been hearing is how Phoenix is the “kidnapping capital of the United States”. Well, turns out that may have been a lie. Public Safety Manager Jack Harris will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the Phoenix Police Department until the city completes another review of controversial [...]
…and I thought Arizona politicians were nuts. The Wisconsin Senate passed a resolution Thursday ordering the arrest of the 14 Democratic senators who left the state two weeks ago to avoid a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill. Republicans voted 19-0 to give the Democrats until 4 p.m. Thursday to appear before [...]
