The volatile ups and downs in the market prices of precious metals read like a soap opera. It begins with the Federal Reserve—they confirmed they had every intention of continuing quantitative easing for the foreseeable future (to the point that those of us in the financial sector now refer to it as QE infinity, as
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the first time in years, Democrats and Republicans are in agreement about the effectiveness of the federal government. According to a recent Pew Research study, neither side has confidence in Washington. In the first years following 9/11, favorable ratings for the federal government rose dramatically, but they have been only a steady decline ever since. In November 2001, 82 percent had a favorable opinion of the government and in December 2002, 73 percent viewed the federal government in a positive light. Positive opinions of the federal government declined through the remainder
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vice President Biden promised his allies in the gun control fight that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence now that the Senate has voted down a gun violence bill. According to BuzzFeed, Biden told those participating in the conference call, “Look, I know you’re going to say that I’m just being an optimist and I’m trying to put a good face on this. But, you know, I’ve been around here a long time and we’ve already done, because of you, some really good things.” He added, “Number
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The media predictably seems to love President Obama’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative. The idea behind this $100 million proposal is to use the latest technology and develop new technology to fully map the human brain. Unfortunately, the media cheerleaders have ignored a potential danger here: this technology could be used to make a sick fantasy of pulp writers a destructive reality. Is brainwashing or mind control really about to happen? Brain Mapping and Brainwashing The brainwashing and mind-control techniques that have long been a stock plot of spy thrillers, movies, TV
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In April of 2002, then state senator Obama said he was confident no law was needed to protect babies that might be born alive during a failed abortion. Now President Barak Obama is still silent on the murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. Obama opposed the state born alive infant protection bills all three times they came before the Illinois state senate. When the 2003 version of the Illinois proposal was assigned to the Senate Health and Human Services committee chaired by Obama, he opposed the bill and it failed four-to-six
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NEW YORK, NY – MSNBC seems to be going out of its way to identify itself more as a far-left political identity than a news organization with its Lean Forward campaign. A new thirty-second promo for the campaign features Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry and her belief against the “private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families,” and instead encourages a “collective notion” that kids “are our children”—that they belong to the community. “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The unemployment rate dropped by .10 percent in March but even one of Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, NBC, reports there is little to cheer about. Allison Linn reported on the network’s web site:  “The unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent in March, from 7.7 percent a month earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But the drop came as nearly 500,000 Americans left the labor force, meaning they stopped working or looking for work and were no longer counted in the official employment numbers.” A look at recent statistics reveals a picture
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President Obama has become the best friend that agribusiness has ever had in the White House. He just signed a law that critics are already dubbing the “Monsanto Protection Act.” The law makes it illegal for a federal judge to issue a court order halting the sale, use, or distribution of genetically engineered seeds even if it is proven the seeds could be harmful. The law would also limit the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ability to regulate the use of genetically engineered seeds. They call the measure the Monsanto Protection Act because it only benefits
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The last century was drenched in blood, as unchecked governments wreaked havoc upon peaceful peoples through war and genocide.  This should have taught us valuable lessons about where humankind went wrong.  It should have shown us that no nation is exempt from electing a genocidal maniac to lead (especially considering the fact that Adolf Hitler was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1939—the world thought that the fellow was a real straight shooter).  Sadly, we were wrong then, and we’re still making the same mistakes today. Today’s America is no different when it comes
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Qasim Rashid, an American-Muslim human rights activist, said in a speech at Howard University that America’s free-speech model is in desperate need of an update. Rashid believes that cyber-bullying laws should be used to limit freedom of expression – such as the burning of Korans – in wartime. “When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are a hindrance to this effort,” Rashid said.  “And their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and… no court can regard them as
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