Author: Steven D

The number of death threats Obama is receiving is 400% higher than the number Bush received. It’s also stretching an understaffed Secret Service to its limits trying to keep track of them all: Since Mr Obama took office,...

You’re 18 years old. Last year a state supreme court ruled that laws prohibiting you from owning a handgun are invalid. Lucky you! Of course, what fun is owning a gun if you can’t get legally drunk? But now that same...

From the NY Times: The number of suicides reported by the Army has risen to the highest level since record-keeping began three decades ago. Last year, there were 192 among active-duty soldiers and soldiers on inactive reserve...

That recession may be coming to an end for Wall Street, but for millions of Americans it is about to get much worse: Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance...

You can read all the details here via Glenn Greenwald. But the short story is that Charlie Rose brokered a deal between News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch and GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to get Olbermann to stop attacking Bill...