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Fed Not Ready to Raise Interest Rates

by | May 20, 2015

Reading economic tea leaves, Wall Street can’t figure out what Federal Reserved Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen and the Open Market Committee will do about raising interest rates when they meet in June to set monetary policy.  Set at rock bottom Dec. 16, 2008 by former...

Patriots’ Kraft Backtracks on Deflate-gate

by | May 19, 2015

Speaking to the press at the start of the NFL’s Spring league meetings, 73-year-old New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft threw in the towel on fighting Commissioner Roger Goodell on the Deflate-gate scandal. Accused of deflating footballs below the leaguer minimum...

Obama’S ISIS Strategy Fails in Iraq and Syria

by | May 18, 2015

After steamrolling Iraq and Syria in 2014 capturing some 30% of sovereign land, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured the capital city of Ramadi in the Sunni-controlled Anbar Province.  Massacring some 500 civilians before driving 8,000 to flee for their lives,...

Jeb Bush And GOP Candidates Flip-Flop On Iraq

by | May 17, 2015

Hammered on his position on Iraq, 62-year-old former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush flip-flopped on the Iraq War, eventually saying he wouldn’t have gone in..  Only a week earlier, Jeb tried to back his brother, former two-term President George W. Bush’s decision to go to war...

Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi Sentenced To Death

by | May 16, 2015

Sentenced to death May 15 in an Egyptian Court by Judge Shabaan El-Shamy together with 100 Muslim Brotherhood comrades, Egypt’s 64-year-old U.S. educated -President Mohamed Morsi heard the verdict in a wire cage. Morsi won Egypt’s first democratic election June 24,...