Jesse Helms, former NC senator, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. The chairman of The Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, N.C, said Jesse Helms died at 1:15 a.m. He died comfortably in Raleigh of natural causes, according to former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton. Funeral arrangements are to be announced, the Jesse Helms center said.
SIRI, Sirius Satellite Radio, and XMSR, XM Satellite Radio, shares surged in early trading due to tentative approval of their merger by the FCC. SIRI and XMSR have been in merger talks and drew the attention of government nannies.
Federal Communications Commission staff were reviewing the proposed merger and came up with some conditions that they thought would be a better way to run the 2 companies.
A number has emerged from an investigation by the BBC Panorama program of what private contractors and war profiteers have absconded with. The estimate comes to a staggering $23 billion that did not reach its intended use.
AIPAC had another conference with the speakers being the two presidential hopefuls showing support for Israel. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee hosted the event at a point where candidate Obama has apparently clinched the Democratic Party’s primary selection process but Clinton is reluctant to concede.
Part of the background events going on involve Hillary Clinton’s reported $11 million campaign debt that was put up by her and husband, former president, Bill Clinton that needs to be resolved.
Ex-president Bill Clinton is back in the news again following a scathing profile in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine.
Just as we thought there was nothing more to add to Hillary Clinton’s election campaign for nomination as the Democratic party’s presidential candidate, more details emerge of the former President’s $109 million fortune, reports of his changes since his heart bypass surgery, and friendships with billionaire bachelor buddy Ron Burkle.
What do you know about Puerto Rico? I know very little so I thought I had better find out something about Puerto Rico’s history and politics.
So here are some quick facts:
Christopher Columbus visited in 1493 to find peaceful Awarak Indians challenged by warring Carib Indians.
Spain claimed possession and began tobacco, sugar cane and coffee plantations in the 1830s.
Spain conceded to some local self-government powers in 1897.
In the Spanish-American War of 1898 American troops invaded the island and Spain ceded it to the U.S.
A mentor friend has stated frequently that political correctness is vastly over-rated. Political correctness is ironically always used in a negative sense. While ‘politically incorrect’ is considered a positive description.
Either way, we seem to have come to a point where everyone takes offense with indignation and anger, or we are so afraid of giving offense that we stop talking and stop being honest.
Such is the case with the brouhaha that has arisen over the Dunkin’ Donuts advertisement with Rachael Ray, the Food network personality and talk show host.
