The most important news for Sunday, February 21st, 2010....
General David Petraeus said in an interview on Sunday that the United States is placing its efforts to thwart the Iranian nuclear program on a "pressure track".
Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari warned Israel on Saturday that any new Mideast war "would be catastrophic" for the world.
The New York Times says that millions of unemployed Americans could face "years" without jobs.
Some economists are warning that it could take five years or more for the U.S. to get all of the lost jobs back.
Citibank is currently sending the following notification to their customers in Texas: "Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change."
Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates that 12 spending bills for this current fiscal year contained 9,499 congressional earmarks worth $15.9 billion.
According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 86 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. system of government is broken.
The Obama administration is considering changes to its mortgage modification plan that could include a freeze on home foreclosures.
Congressman Ron Paul won a blowout victory on Saturday in the annual Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll.
A Canadian government department is poised to approve genetically modified pig/mouse hybrids knows as "enviropigs" into the food supply.
One prominent Canadian farming expert is warning about the horrific dangers that genetically modified crops pose to the environment.
Barack Obama is saying that global warming is to blame for the record snowfalls that many areas of the U.S. have been experiencing this winter.
A new U.K. government report says that young children are being "sexualized" at earlier and earlier ages.
A Christian legal group plans to sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray.
Lastly, Christianity Today has published an article entitled "There's Power in the Blood" which discusses how many Christian authors are now tapping into the "riches" of vampire mythology.
The most important news for Friday, February 19th, 2010....
It is being reported that Barack Obama and his advisers are working on health care legislation intended to reconcile differences between House and Senate Democrats that could be attached to a budget bill and pass with only 51 Senate votes.
On Friday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "world constitution" to regulate the financial system.
Former friends are saying that Joe Stack, the man who officials say flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into a 7 story office building in Austin, Texas was carefree, friendly and professional.
For the very first time, U.N. weapons inspectors are officially accusing Iran of carrying out work to build a nuclear bomb.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Israel "will be destroyed" if they attack Hezbollah.
North Korea is vowing never to dismantle its nuclear program as long as the United States continues a "hostile policy" towards them.
One Citibank executive is saying that China is selling their U.S. Treasuries because they want to buy massive quantities of gold.
The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly experienced a large surge last week.
One Ohio man decided to bulldoze his own home rather than let the bank take it in foreclosure proceedings.
The Federal Reserve has raised the interest rate it charges banks that borrow from the central bank when they run short of funds.
The U.K. government is reacting furiously to a decree by the government of Argentina that all ships heading to or from the Falklands must apply for permits before entering her country's waters.
CBN News is reporting that five Muslim soldiers tried to poison food at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
A new U.S. Geological Survey assessment indicates that North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation - a 25-fold increase compared to the agency's 1995 estimate.
The Earl of Stirling is creating quite a stir by calling for a general strike between April 15th and April 18th.
A new ordinance in Aurora, Illinois limits outdoor seasonal displays to 60 days before and after holidays.
The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the world famous pastor in the state of California.
One new study says that dozens of primate species are on the brink of extinction.
One team of scientists is claiming that the brain actively erases memories to create space for new information.
According to one new lawsuit, administrators of one wealthy suburban school district have been spying on students and their families at home after giving them laptops fitted with webcams.
The World Health Organization is recommending that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine be added to the regular flu vaccine next season.
Russia's foreign minister is concerned that a new strategy blueprint under development by NATO would allow the alliance to use military force worldwide.
Under a deadline to destroy the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile, U.S. Army officials have devised a unique plan to hasten the process: Blow some of them up.
Uh Oh - European laws are about to require that all cats and dogs traveling to Europe, or within its boundaries, must be microchipped.
Singer Elton John is claiming that Jesus was actually a homosexual.
A devastating drought in the Philippines has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops.
An Atlanta highway recently turned into a circus when an escaped zebra galloped along a busy section of interstate with police in hot pursuit.
One eighth-grade teacher in the U.S. has accused her students of committing a "hate crime" because they left a Bible on her desk and a Christmas card with the word "Christ" underlined.
One 12-year-old girl in New York was recently arrested and marched out of her school in handcuffs because she doodled on her desk.
A bill introduced in the Iowa House would require "age-appropriate" comprehensive sex education beginning in kindergarten.
Lastly, a 6-year-old girl was recently handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.
The most important news for Thursday, February 18th, 2010....
A small plane has crashed into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas. Federal officials are now saying that the pilot of the plane had set his house on fire beforehand and then crashed the plane intentionally into the building.
The name of the pilot is reportedly Joseph Andrew Stack and it is being claimed that he left behind a rambling anti-government suicide note.
More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world were recently hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals ever discovered.
The chief of Russia's General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, is warning the United States not to attack Iran.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that Hezbollah would hit Israel's Ben Gurion airport if the Jewish state struck Beirut's international airport in any future war.
The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liquidating assets from the tidal wave of failed Midwest banks that the FDIC is expecting.
A South Carolina lawmaker has introduced legislation which would replace all paper money in that state with gold and silver coins.
It is being reported that a hedge fund run by billionaire investor George Soros more than doubled its bet on the price of gold during the fourth quarter.
In an attempt to keep the price of gold down, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it plans to sell 191.3 metric tons of gold on the open market.
The U.S. government is still spending $32 billion in stimulus funds every single month.
Now even ABC News is admitting that the U.S. government is drowning in debt.
A new study is warning that many U.S. states may soon be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or cut government services in order to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits.
It turns out that when many Americans call up for information about their local food stamp programs, they are being answered by operators in India.
It is being estimated that there are 6 unemployed Americans for every 1 job opening in America right now.
U.S. bank lending in the U.S. has contracted so far this year at the fastest rate in recorded history.
Do you still think the housing industry is going to recover quickly? If so, perhaps you should check out this article: 5 Factors That Will Drag Housing Down in the Next Ten Years.
The liberal elite must be very concerned - now the New York Times has published a very long article that tries desperately to link the Tea Party movement to white supremacists.
A Tea Party organizer has officially won a seat in the New York state assembly.
The Dalai Lama's visit to the White House is seriously straining U.S. relations with China.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia must improve its space defenses as well as modernize its nuclear arsenal by 2020.
The lower house of the French parliament has approved a draft bill that would give the French government unprecedented control over the Internet.
Is Google making 500 million dollars a year from typos?
Best selling author Kevin Trudeau has been ordered by a federal judge to serve 30 days in prison even though he has not committed any crimes.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the region where China, Russia and North Korea meet on Thursday.
A huge X-shaped object with trailing streamers is cruising across the sky just 90 million miles from earth and astronomers have no idea what it is.
Researchers at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, have successfully used genetically modified pig lungs to pump human blood. Since pig organs are essentially the same size and shape as human organs, the researchers are claiming that this "advance" could drastically increase the number of lungs available for transplant.
A study released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicates that the current generation of young Americans is much less religious than their parents.
Lastly, Italian state television has suspended a cooking show host after he shocked the nation by admitting that cat stew is a Tuscan delicacy that he has enjoyed many times.
The most important news for Wednesday, February 17th, 2010....
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that airport screeners will begin roving through airports randomly taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives.
Four key Senate Democrats are attempting to use congressional rules to slip a government-run public insurance option into the health care bill at the last minute.
According to a college acquaintance, Barack Obama was a pure "Marxist Socialist" during his college days.
According to a new CNN poll, 52 percent of Americans say that Barack Obama does not deserve to be re-elected in 2012.
Experts are warning that the U.S. national debt will climb to an unprecedented 200 percent of GDP by 2038 without a dramatic shift in course.
A senior Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday that growing mountains of U.S. government debt will increase pressure on Federal Reserve to hold interest rates low, making it harder to avoid inflation.
The Federal Reserve is scheduled to halt its purchases of mortgage-backed securities at the end of March, and the U.S. government is hoping that foreign governments will step in and fill the gap.
The Federal Reserve is predicting that unemployment will stay high for at least the next two years.
Most people do not realize it, but the U.S. Treasury Department is one of the key players in the war on terrorism and is smack in the middle of nearly every major international conflict in which the United States is involved.
According to one new survey, 88% of Americans think that the U.S. economy is still in a recession.
Homelessness in rural and suburban America is severely straining shelters this winter as the economy continues to decline and joblessness hovers near double digits.
In the area around Sacramento, California there is one closed business for every six that are still open.
The majority of large corporations in the U.S. are hoarding cash and hiring very few new workers.
It turns out that some of the states with the worst unemployment situations are outsourcing jobs to India.
The average rate of interest on credit cards in the U.K. has now climbed to 18.8 percent.
Even analysts in Germany are amazed at how badly China is outplaying the United States on the world economic stage.
In what is being called the worst humiliation ever suffered by an EU member state, the European Union has stripped Greece of its vote at a crucial meeting next month.
Talk show host Glenn Beck is saying that top Al-Qaeda leaders captured in Afghanistan should be shot in the head.
A promising new bill being considered by the New Hampshire House of Representatives would ban the use of biometric data for either state or privately issued IDs.
Vader? Seriously? Northrop Grumman has successfully completed flight testing of its new Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER), which is capable of tracking vehicles and foot traffic over a very wide area.
Staying on the same theme, Wired recently published a story about robotics development with this stunning headline: Darpa Looks to Build Real-Life C3P0.
Here we go again? Argentina has declared a blockade on the Falkland Islands in a dispute over oil rights.
New research shows that children with teeth that have been damaged by fluoride also have worse bone problems than others.
Planned Parenthood of Birmingham has been put on probation by Alabama health officials.
Data coming out of the U.K. and Japan show a clear link between vaccines and autism.
Why is the FDA conducting secret police style raids on Amish farmers in Pennsylvania?
U.S. officials have received a flurry of new complaints in recent weeks about deaths linked to sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles.
Traditionalist Anglicans in Australia have become the first to vote in favor of leaving their national church and converting to Roman Catholicism.
Lastly, Donald Trump, citing the East Coast's massive snowstorms, says that former vice president Al Gore should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize.
