Senator Barack Obama earned more income in 2007 than 99.4% of the United States population. If Barack were a country, his income would put him at 180th for GDP!

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama reported $4.2 million in income in 2007.

The presidential candidate released his tax returns on Wednesday. He said his adjusted gross income was around $4.2 million, with $4 million coming from the profits on his two books - “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.” His Senate salary is $260,735. Continue Reading »

Billionaire media mogul Ted Turner who founded CNN claims rising sea levels are the least of our worries with global warming. In an interview with Charlie Rose he argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don’t die “will be cannibals.” Continue Reading »

Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.
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One-third of women in the military and 6% of men said they were sexually harassed, according to the latest Pentagon survey on the issue. Truth is that more than two-thirds of women in the military are harassed but the less attractive (and not harassed) one-third makes the complaints.

The figure for women was worse than the previous finding several years ago but better than a similar survey taken in 1995, the Defense Department said in a report Friday. The Defense Manpower Data Center said it compiled the data from a survey of 24,000 people in 2006. Continue Reading »

Barack Obama tried to insist to Hillary Clinton that he was a front runner. Though there’s no proof, it’s speculated that behind closed doors he was crying into his hands, while muttering “I am, I am, I am”. It’s obvious that Obama isn’t yet aware that being a front runner doesn’t always matter.

“With all due respect, I won twice as many states as Senator Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton. I have more delegates than Senator Clinton,” Obama said while campaigning in Mississippi, which is holding a primary tomorrow. “I don’t know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to somebody who is in first place.” Continue Reading »

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. The story was broken by the New York times this morning and the governor has canceled appearances for the day and is huddling with his top advisers.
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The mayor of a small town in Arkansas resigned after being caught using a falsified name. The mayor claims he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago and brainwashed into forgetting his identity.
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Hillary won the popular vote in Texas but like New Mexico Texas has a two stage voting system. The secondary caucus results gave Obama a victory in the state Hillary has won the raw vote for giving a split victory. Clinton got a major boost in morale by winning more raw votes than Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island (she lost to Obama in Vermont), an Associated Press count of the delegates shows Clinton only reduced her opponent’s lead in delegates by 12. Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON (AP)–The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. officials said Thursday that the option preferred by the Bush administration will be to fire a missile from a U.S. Navy cruiser, and shoot down the satellite before it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama Monday rejected the idea of pausing U.S. troop drawdowns in Iraq, raised earlier in Baghdad by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

But Sen. Obama, D-Ill., locked in a tight struggle for the Democratic nomination with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said combat troops should be brought home as soon as possible. Continue Reading »