On Friday, the U.S. federal minimum wage will be increased to a record $7.25 per hour. While many in the business community claim that this last of three minimum wage increases will lead to more lost jobs, most people that only earn the minimum wage ...

I just finished reading an interesting story on CNN that said that 30% of Americans that would have traveled over the 4th of July holiday weekend have now decided to stay home because of the high price of gasoline.

Love her or hate her, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi sure tries to put a positive spin on things, even when most political experts think differently. On Tuesday night, all conservative commentators and pundits agreed that the...

In a lawsuit filed today, the New York State Attorney General claims that giant computer chip maker Intel has played unfair in the competitive computer chip marketplace. At the heart of AG Andrew Cuomo's lawsuit against Intel are billions of dollars...

In September of next year, I will have been writing daily posts in this blog for five years. Over that period of time, I have found that blogging is a wonderful pass time for me. Before I started blogging on a daily basis, I usually worked an eight...

As the new Michael Jackson movie premiers to millions of people around the world each day, I can't help but have a certain sadness in my heart for this once great singer and entertainer. Even when Michael Jackson was a young child, he was already a...

Yesterday, was a bad one for President Barack Obama as the GOP won three very important special elections. One year ago yesterday, President Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States and in the short period of time between then and...