"...could become a serious global public health problem"
"Health tourists" flocking to south Asia have carried a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbugs to Britain, researchers reported Wednesday, warning that the bacteria could spread worldwide.
Many hospital infections that were already difficult to treat have become even more impervious to drugs due to a recently discovered gene that can jump across different species of bacteria.
Home loan demand climbed last week but record low mortgage rates failed to light a fire in a market constrained by unemployment and tight lending practices.
Mortgage purchase and refinancing applications rose by less than 1 percent in the first week of August, even as 30-year loan rates fell to 4.57 percent, the lowest in 20 years of record keeping by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
You have no one to blame but yourself if you return the incumbents to Congress. The people whom have brought this country near ruin are being given a vote of confidence. This is our chance to bring real 'change' to Washington. Don't blow it. In November, vote out every member of Congress who's been in office 10+ years. 10 and out! Or watch your country become a third world nation:
In an election year dominated by a desire for change in Washington, voters in Colorado and Connecticut on Tuesday nominated a trio of Senate candidates who positioned themselves as political outsiders. But Colorado's results proved there are limits on how much change voters actually want, a telling sign that November's pivotal midterm elections may be even more unpredictable than polls suggest.
This is bad news for the Democrats. Rangel wants to go down with the boat and take everyone with him. They coddled this crook for too long. Now he thinks he's entitled:
A combative Rep. Charles Rangel told the House on Tuesday he's not resigning despite 13 charges of wrongdoing and demanded the ethics committee not leave him "swinging in the wind."
Rangel, who is 80, spoke without notes in an extraordinary, often emotional 37-minute speech that defied his lawyers' advice to keep quiet about his case.
The New York Democrat and 40-year House veteran had a sharp message in dismissing fellow Democrats who, worried about election losses, want him to quit: "If I can't get my dignity back here, then fire your best shot in getting rid of me through expulsion."
During the Reagan days they called it 'smoke and mirrors.'
Federal Reserve officials, acknowledging that their confidence in the recovery had dimmed, moved again on Tuesday to keep interest rates low and encourage economic growth. They also signaled that more aggressive measures could follow if the job market and other indicators continued to weaken.
This amoral administration is figuring that they don't need the left. That explains why Gibbs is constantly giving them the finger. As he did with Speaker Pelosi. They want to appease the ever growing independent vote. Play for the center is the political strategy of most Presidents. Clinton did the same exact thing. The problem is that the left naively believed that Obama was one of them. They fell for the same ole scam Democrats love to play. They make promises intended to win the primaries and then move to the center during the general election. This is the political equivalent of biting the hand that feeds you. In this case the Obama administration is biting the left.
The Obama administration's most public face, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, has tried to climbed down from angry remarks he aimed at leftwing critics, calling them "crazy".
In an interview with The Hill newspaper in Washington DC, Gibbs revealed frustration at attacks on the administration from liberal Democrats and others on the left, in terms likely to make relations even worse:
This is what happens when you have too many guns out there. Chicago, in particular, has an epidemic of children being killed with guns:
Police in Chicago are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy who was accidentally shot while playing with his twin brother.
This is 1982 and 1994 all over again. An unpopular President and/or economic downturn leads to loses for ruling party:
Since winning the White House, President Obama hasn’t experienced much success when he’s dipped his toes into the electoral waters. Last year, the two Democrats he campaigned for, Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Creigh Deeds in Virginia, both lost. In January, another Democrat he tried to save in Massachusetts’ special Senate election, Martha Coakley, met a similar fate. And in May, the Democrat he was backing in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary, Arlen Specter, went down to defeat. (Even when the White House tried to distance itself from a Democrat it thought was about lose, Blanche Lincoln, she pulled off the upset and won.)
Study: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults
If your pants are feeling a bit tight around the waistline, take note: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults, even those who aren't overweight or obese by other measures.
WHO says swine flu pandemic is over
The World Health Organization says the swine flu pandemic is over.
Fingerprint sharing led to deportation of 47,000
Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails.
Compensation gap between federal, private jobs doubles
At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
David Gregory, on Meet The Press, tried to get Senate Republican Leader, John Boehner, to answer a simple question: Do tax cuts pay for themselves. Boehner stonewalled. See the exchange below.
