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Samuel Wurzelbacher, the former conservative commentator who achieved some notoriety during the 2008 presidential election over a  question he asked candidate Barack Obama, has joined the United Auto Workers — …

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Mahatma Gandhi Are public figures more corrupt and depraved than they used to be? …

If you thought that The Same Old Song was just a sixties tune recorded by the Four Tops, you didn’t attend yesterday’s session of The House Committee of Financial Services …

There’s nothing sadder than an aging hipster, said comedian/polemicist Lenny Bruce. Little did he know his comment was spawning a cottage industry. There’s a band called Ageing Hipsters. A travel …

Asian markets are getting clobbered today, and the Japanese markets have officially reached “correction” territory. The contagion spread to US markets after manufacturing numbers missed projections; the numbers didn’t miss …

The Internal Revenue Service answered the smallest number of calls ever this past year, according to a new report. Its not like the customer service from the IRS was ever …

The year 2013 gave us great travel-related stories from around the globe. There was no shortage of fascinating pieces to choose from. From major typhoons, to plane crashes, to the …

Economists don’t love Bitcoin, the government definitely doesn’t love them. Bitcoins are nothing more than sophisticated blips in a computer managed by no one. How on earth can any financially …

A new $85 billion budget deal agreement was reached this week, that will fund federal agencies through the fall of 2015. This will avert another government shutdown, and end the …

Recently we discussed why Bitcoins, encrypted digital tokens that can be freely traded across the Internet without going through a bank, are likely to be around for a while. Certainly …