Road To The White House - 2012

With the Iowa Caucuses over and all focus on New Hampshire, the first primary of this pivotal Presidential race, the party’s two front runners, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, moved their machines into full gear and into the Granite State.

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First Person: Award Winning Director, Anna Wilding, Weathers Super Storm Sandy

It is not particularly easy to write about a hurricane when I just left a zone devastated by earthquakes, that being Christchurch New Zealand.  However, that is not to distract from the sheer force of Hurricane Sandy and its effect on many lives and of course the infrastructure in 15 states, in particular New York.  To date, over 100 lives have been lost, 56 of those in the United States. It’s a sad time for many.

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Nairobi Mall Standoff Enters Fourth Day

The four day standoff that began Saturday with Al-Queda linked militants storming into Nairobi’s Westgate Premier Shopping Mall, tossing hand grenades and firing indiscriminately in the crowded high end plaza, has been neutralized.

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Beltway Insider: Obamacare Site Fails; Obama, VP Host Foreign Leaders; White House Denies Spying; Sandy Hook Demolition Begins

President Obama, who championed the legislation that would provide affordable health care to millions of uninsured Americans, is now facing a firestorm of scrutiny as the rollout for the online health marketplace has suffered repeated disruptions and outages.

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Beltway insider: Obama Fights Low Ratings, Affordable Care Act Failures; SNAP Benefits Face Cuts; Iranian Nuke Deal; Thanksgiving Traditions Strong

President Barack Obama, fighting the Affordable Care Act failures and freefalling ratings, traveled to sunny California, this week, visiting DreamWorks Studio, the home of his largest campaign donor Jeffrey Katzenberg, meeting industry executives and embracing Hollywood.

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Bomb Attacks Target Iraqi Christians

Christmas Day 2013 will be remembered as one of the bloodiest in recent history as multiple car bombs exploded throughout Bagdad and the surrounding countryside killing 42 and wounding nearly one hundred more.

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World Cities Celebrate New Year's Eve

From Sydney, St. Petersburg, and Dubai to New York, London and Hong Kong, cities throughout the world welcomed 2014 with brilliant, dazzling displays of pyrotechnic majesty, revelry, champagne toasts and midnight kisses.

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GOP Endures Hell Week

Republicans are licking their wounds as hell week continues to burn through their strongholds after twin scandals erupt and a bland rebuttal to an unexciting State of the Union address fails to ignite the conservative fires.

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Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow

Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania Groundhog who, since 1887, has become the annual predictor for winter’s end, popped his head out of his hole-in-the-ground home and promptly saw his shadow, the indicator of another six more weeks of winter, snow, cold, ice and slush, sad news for those of us who are ready for winter’s end. 

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