The most important news for Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010....
Florida's attorney general announced on Monday that ten states plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care reform bill.
According to one analysis, a middle class family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year for health insurance under the new system.
However, according to the Congressional Budget Office, by 2016, the average family health care plan will cost $15,200.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is defending his decision to portray House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surrounded by flames on his organization's website alongside the phrase: "Fire Pelosi".
In a new CBS News poll, Nancy Pelosi has a "favorable" rating of 11 percent.
Thanks to the health care bill, starting in 2018 family insurance plans valued at more than $27,500 will pay a 40% tax above that level.
In fact, one analyst has discovered 15 new taxes that are contained in the health care reform bill.
Under the new health care regime, the Internal Revenue Service will function as the government’s chief enforcer for health care reform.
From September 10th, 2008 to March 10th of this year, Ben Bernanke has increased the monetary base of the United States from $850 billion to $2.1 trillion — an increase of 2.5 times in just 18 months.
U.S. government debt is rapidly replacing business loans on the books of U.S. commercial banks.
Gerald Celente is predicting that the "crash of 2010" is coming whether we like it or not.
What in the world? It looks like China is actually going to run a trade deficit for the month of March.
The International Monetary Fund is warning that advanced economies such as the U.K. and U.S. are facing an "acute" challenge in reducing debt loads following the financial crisis which could in turn hamper economic growth.
A U.S. law forcing foreign financial firms to reveal details of American clients could force banks to stop trading across the Atlantic.
In a speech to AIPAC Monday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Israeli claims to Jerusalem and rejected assertions that Israel was not fully committed to peace.
According to a new poll, a lopsided plurality of 42 percent of Israelis view U.S. President Barack Obama as pro-Arab, and only seven percent see him as pro-Israel.
Juarez, Mexico (which is just across the U.S. border) has become the murder capital of the western hemisphere.
Time Magazine is asking this question: "The Coming China-India Conflict: Is War Inevitable?"
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office reveals that the Transportation Security Administration plans to install more than double the number of full-body scanners at U.S. airports than was originally planned.
A former drug smuggler named Hank Asher has created a massive data mining operation so vast that it can easily locate and provide a dizzying amount of information about almost anyone in the United States.
The liberal community organizing group ACORN announced on Monday that it is closing its operations amid falling revenues.
Google is defying China’s censorship rules by redirecting mainland Chinese users to an unfiltered Hong Kong Web site.
The day before the health care reform bill was passed, the FDA announced that one of the most popular statin drugs sold in America causes so much kidney damage that it might kill you.
U.S. health authorities recommended on Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying that the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus.
A team of scientists has demonstrated that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gain significantly more weight than those with access to water sweetened with table sugar, even when they consume the same number of calories.
A Christian man in Pakistan's Punjab province is fighting for his life after radical Muslim leaders, backed by police, burned him alive for refusing to convert to Islam while his wife was raped by police officers.
A Bangladeshi man was beheaded by workers who burnt his head in a kiln in the belief this would redden their bricks after a fortune teller suggested that the brick-field needed a human sacrifice.
Did a cellphone recently capture evidence of a supernatural creature?
Tiger Woods is promising to wear his Buddhist bracelet for the rest of his life.
Police in the U.K. are investigating what they are calling a ''homophobic incident'' after a gay couple claimed they were turned away from a bed & breakfast.
The U.S. Geological Survey recently recorded three earthquakes in central Oklahoma in a span of less than seven hours.
On a different note, what one Canadian man can do with kites is absolutely amazing.
Lastly, a public school in the state of Washington has banned the performance of an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" at its high-school graduation simply because the superintendent fears "it might sound religious" – and the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the ban to stand by refusing to hear the case.
