Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP continues to field independent candidates to the right of the party's nominee. "If we get into a cycle where there are tea parties and there are conservative third-party candidates, we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life, Gingrich told Politico. "You can't be a right-wing party and govern the country."
read moreThe insurance industry is sick. After studying the symptoms, we've diagnosed them with "Goldilocks syndrome," named after the little blonde heroine of the popular children's story.
Like her, insurance companies have broken into people's homes but then cherry-picked which customers are "too big" or "too small" to insure, settling on the ones that are "juuust right." The stories have been all over the news over the past few weeks: one baby who was "too big," another toddler who was "too small." But the insurance companies aren't dealing with fictional talking bears. These are real people who need medical coverage.
read moreCopper prices hit a high on Friday of just over $3 a pound -- a strong indicator that economic recovery is at hand as construction and technologies have increased their demands. Copper is a critical component in almost everything we use today, from advanced technology to the construction industry. When demand goes up it signals a that building and buying trends are moving forward.
read moreIn a New York federal bankruptcy court Oct. 9, Judge Robert D. Drain ruled that lender PHH Mortgage lacked the documents to prove its claim to a delinquent borrower's home in White Plains and wiped out the entire $461,263 mortgage debt on the property.
Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, talk show host Rush Limbaugh declared on his program last week that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses. "I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism," he said. "I mean, that's the lesson we're being taught here today. Kid shouldn't have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses."
Good God, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would see the Grand Old Party of Goldwater and Nixon descend to populism!
One black President and all bets are off, I suppose.