America is a lifeboat and, like any lifeboat, if you try to jam too many people in, it’s going to flip over. Let me explain by using California as an example, because, as the 8th largest economy in the world, as goes California, so goes America. Unfortunately, in this analogy, …
Read More »Racist Music Just a Download Away on Mainstream Music Sites
You’re unlikely to find CDs by groups like Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack sold alongside the latest hits from Rihanna and the Jonas Brothers at your local retailer. But the white-power punk bands’ ballads are just a click away online. With song titles like “Skinhead Superstar” and “White Warriors,” white-power bands …
Read More »The Confidence to Borrow and Lend
Being FOX’s top nerd guy, I’m often asked about the ongoing financial crisis. When will it end? Why so many rescues? Why so much stimulus? I’ve always said this all comes down to one word: Confidence. The confidence of borrowers to borrow and lenders to lend. That’s it. Problem is …
Read More »How to Keep Your Pet Healthy in Tough Economic Times
Pets are big business in the United States. Americans spend a staggering $41 billion a year on their cats, dogs, birds, lizards and any other animal you can think of, according to a 2007 report by Business Week. But, as the economy takes a downturn — are our pets suffering …
Read More »Claim: Jacko's Rep Threatened Harm From Nation of Islam
Claim: Jacko’s Rep Threatened Harm From Nation of Islam | Neverland in ‘Shambles’ | Billy & Christie’s Kid at the Next Level; Judith Owen Comes to NYC Claim: Jacko’s Rep Threatened Harm From Nation of Islam It should be rockin’ at the Hard Rock Café in New York today where …
Read More »NASA Won't Commit to 'Colbert' Space Module Yet
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has been talking up the International Space Station recently, but NASA is iffy on naming a new module at the outpost after the comedian even if he wins the U.S. space agency’s online naming contest. On a recent episode of the “The Colbert Report,” the eponymous …
Read More »Swine Flu's Worst Case Scenario: Paranoia or Preparedness?
An uncontrollable, deadly virus ravages America, shutting down civilian institutions and triggering martial law. Vaccinations are compulsory, and there are mass quarantines throughout the country. It’s the stuff of Hollywood — but rumors that it could be real are spreading like the flu in the blogosphere, where some people are …
Read More »Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing 'Pervert' Revues, Underground Pornography
Talk about a stimulus package. The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco. The NEA …
Read More »'The Bachelorette' Recap: Did Ed Fail Jillian's Hot Dog Test?
Tonight’s episode of “The Bachelorette” moved to Maui, where the three remaining bachelors got a second shot at making something happen with Jillian in a “fantasy suite.” Reid seemed to rise to the occasion; he and Jillian wound up taking a bubble bath together. Kiptyn’s night with her seemed relatively …
Read More »New Video May Help FBI Solve Somali-American Terror Case
A video posted on a jihadist Web site could help the FBI determine how a group of Somali-Americans was recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia. For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area and elsewhere in the …
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