Yahoo News
US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISI.
“It is disturbing enough [...]
CNN.com
Pirates who hijacked a crude oil tanker off the coast of Kenya are approaching a Somali port, the U.S. Navy said Monday.
The Sirius Star — a crude “super tanker” flagged in Liberia and owned by the Saudi Arabian-based Saudi Aramco company — was attacked on Saturday more than 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya.
The [...]
Are you an idiot to keep paying your mortgage?
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Schiff says. “People are going to feel like complete morons if they don’t participate. The people getting punished are the ones who never made an irresponsible decision to buy a house they couldn’t afford.”
(via Instapundit)
The article explains how a new government program [...]
The Associated Press
Oil prices slid to near $55 a barrel Thursday in Asia as more bad economic news from the U.S. heightened fears of a severe global downturn that will pulverise demand for crude.
Light, sweet crude for December delivery was down 81 cents to $55.35 a barrel, after falling as low as $55.03, in electronic [...]
I expect that Obama will win handily, bringing in over 300 electoral votes and probably winning the popular vote by 3-4%.
This isn’t the result I would prefer, but it is one I can live with. I admire Obama’s personal story, I am certainly pleased that someone with his background can achieve as much as he [...]
