BP declines invitation to three day oil spill hearings with top U.S. Officials. Mississippi state House Speaker Billy McCoy and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant created the Mississippi House of Representatives Select Committee on the Gulf Coast Disaster in May 2010. The mission of the Committee...
The House Of Representatives passed the bill containing new food safety laws on Thursday, something which lawmakers believe will have far reaching effects. The legislation aims to make the process of approvals by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) more stringent by requiring them to carry...
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and the eponym of the Jacksonian Democracy. Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, North Carolina, or Lancaster, South Carolina, as the border between the states had not been resolved at the time of his birth. Jackson was born...
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Political Correctness: the Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the avoidance... of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people." Okay, we can get behind that. But what does it actually mean in reality?
Tennessee is a state with a very rich history and vast resources. Not only is Tennessee home to mountain ranges, lakes and plateaus put it is also often credited as the birthplace of country music and several well known historical figures. Below we've listed ten interesting facts about the state of Tennessee.
Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
The ambitious healthcare plan proposed by President Obama's government continues to draw some serious criticism from a group of liberal democrats which could prove to be a major hurdle in the way of healthcare reforms. Kathleen Sibelius who's the secretary for health in the government received a...
William "Bill" Clinton was the 42nd President of The United States. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas to William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., and Virginia Dell Cassidy. When Clinton was three months old, Clinton's grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy,...
The Sydney Opera House hosted a gathering of 5,200 nude people on Monday. The event was for a photo shoot by photographer Spencer Tunick. Tunick went on record regarding the Sydney event to say:"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa,"...
