Real Estate in the 21st Century

From the BBC: US drone strike 'kills 16' in Pakistan A US drone attack has killed at least 16 suspected militants in Pakistan's north-western tribal area, Pakistani security officials have said.  Three compounds believed to be militant hideouts in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanista...

 CEOs paid more than Uncle Sam A new report flags companies that paid less in taxes last year than they paid their CEOs, ending up with little or no tax bill on an average $1 billion in revenue. Here's how they pulled it off. By Michael Brush, MSN Money Citigroup: Banking on big refunds CEO Vikr...

From AP, By WILL WEISSERT: AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Texas can cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that provide health services to low-income women before a trial over a new law that bans state money from going to organizations tied to abortion pro...

Obama adminstration appoints Muslims to key Homeland Security posts Arif Alikhan-  Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security:  has referred to the renowned terrorist organization Hezbollah as a "liberation movement" and was responsible for killing a Los Ang...

From Newsweek: WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war if President Bashar Assad's beleaguered regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons. He called such action a "red line" for the U...

Our politicians lie. you know that right?  Dems only think it is the Republicans that do it, and Republicans think the Dems do it.  Both do it.  Let's watch this play out.       OXFORD, Ohio — The end of the Bush-era tax cuts will mostly whack blue states — and New York will take one of the bigge...

White House meets with Muslim Brotherhood RHEANA MURRAY Thursday, April 05, 2012 The Obama administration is defending its decision to meet with members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood earlier this week. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the meeting "the appropriate and right thing to d...

From Forbes: Declining Birthrates, Expanded Bureaucracy: Is U.S. Going European? To President Barack Obama and many other Democrats, Europe continues to exercise something of a fatal attraction.  The “European dream” embraced by these politicians — as well as by many pundits, academics and policy...

The next time law enforcement stops you for something, just complain that you are an illegal immigrant.  It sure works for them. From US NEWS: Undocumented immigrants confront author of strict immigration laws BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Protesters opposed to strict state-level immigration laws confronte...

Obama calls for 'soul searching' after Wisconsin attack "All of us recognise that these kinds of terrible, tragic events are happening with too much regularity for us not to do some soul searching to examine additional ways that we can reduce violence, " Mr Obama said during an unrelated bill sig...