More than 50% of Americans say they are worse off now under Obama. According to a new Bloomberg poll, a majority of Americans believes that they are worse off, today, under Obama than they were two years ago, when Obama had just been elected. Giving the president another headache that is sure to compound his political problems is the number of Americans who responded that they thought the US was... 

Members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner use a stretcher remove the body of Mark Madoff from the apartment building in which he lived in the Soho neighborhood of New York. He was never charged in the case that sent his father to prison after thousands were swindled of their life savings, but for two years, the eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff still bore the toxic burden of... 

Real Holocaust Denial “118 first responders heard explosions…” One of the many groups of dedicated professionals insulted by Julian Assange is “Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.” This is their video. Assange says they are liars but even Fox News now admits that Building 7 was destroyed by explosives. Assange staked the reputation of Wikileaks on the public never learning about Building... 

You may not have to wait until the year 2154 for your own remote-controlled body. In this week’s excerpt, Mark Stephen Meadows discusses wetware technology and how the science-fiction of Avatar is quickly becoming science fact. During a radio interview in December of 2009, I was asked, “Do you think the vision of Avatar is something we’ll see in the future?” I paused for a... 

I pity the fool... duped by Wikileaks and Israel ASSANGE ACCUSED: “TOOK MONEY FROM ISRAEL” Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange for... 

Former Attorney Gen. Ed Meese, the Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow in public policy at the Heritage Foundation. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese says it is “despicable” for the Southern Poverty Law Center to classify the Family Research Council and a dozen other top conservative organizations as “hate groups” similar to the Ku Klux Klan. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Meese told CNSNews.com... 

The new life forms up close, at five micrometers. NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It’s capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updated. NASA is saying that this is “life as we do not know it”. The reason is that all life on Earth is... 

All the controversy surrounding the ant-covered Jesus exhibit that was eventually pulled from the federally funded National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, reminded me of a trip the wife and I took to one of the prestigious art museums last year here in Los Angeles. Most of the exhibits were gorgeous, ranging from sculptures from ancient Greece to art deco furniture and household items, and we... 

An artist’s concept of a lake on Titan, “the only place in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface. NASA is holding a press conference on Thursday “to discuss an astrobiology finding.” Are they going to announce that they’ve found evidence of extraterrestrial life? Blogger Jason Kottke took a look at NASA’s press release, which touts “an... 

Sam Cohen conceived of the neutron bomb as a way of morally killing large populations during warfare, while leaving everything else intact. It didn’t work. He later claimed to have been inspired by traumatizing motherly hygiene. And now he’s dead. Cohen died at 89 this past weekend, poisoned by stomach cancer. His death capped a long career of creating, testing, and bizarrely explaining... 

May 1: Activists Juan Rodriguez (L-R), Carlos Roa and Felipe Matos, who walked from Florida to Washington to join protesters to speak out against stricter immigration, are introduced onstage in Washington. Florida has joined Arizona on the front lines of battling illegal immigration with a new bill released this week that seeks to crack down on the estimated 800,000 undocumented workers in the state. The... 

These leaders have been a driving force behind the nation's economic policies since the financial crisis of 2008. The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009. The... 

The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways: The Washington Post, today: Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe. But in parts of the world where the leaks have some of the greatest potential to sow controversy, they have barely caused a ripple. Authoritarian governments... 

NASA will hold a news conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. The news conference will be held at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2 at the NASA Headquarters auditorium. The live broadcast of the conference will be available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv . Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of... 

The truth about the unseemly way in which the US State Department has been behaving should not have gone public, insists Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who today called the revelation of these facts “an attack on the international community.” The Obama Administration has expressed outrage at what amounts to the revelation of a growing number of crimes committed under their watch (and often...