Tweet President Obama organized a job council that the administration will ask for advice on solving the country’s unemployment problem. But five of the largest companies in the council are focused more on their overseas operations for growth. The companies that rely on foreign revenues for most of their sales are General Electric, Intel, Citigroup,... 

Tweet The federal budget deficit is about to break the $1 trillion mark for the third straight year. This has placed added pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to formulate a plan to curb government spending. According to the latest report from the Treasury Department, the deficit is already at $927.4 billion during the first eight months... 

Tweet A health care plan put out by Rep. Paul Ryan will work to prevent President Obama’s proposal to take money from Medicare. During the president’s recent speech he said he was working to protect senior citizens and said that Rep. Ryan’s plan would hurt them. However, analysis of the data shows the very opposite is true, and they would do better... 

Tweet Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump released his official birth certificate to ABC News this week after previously showing a certificate of live birth. The document was issued by the New York City Department of Health and has been posted on the ABC News website. It shows that Trump was born at the Jamaica Hospital in New York on June 14,... 

Tweet President Obama has asked that the Republicans and Democrats work to find a common solution for the budget dilemma, with the top priority being to find a way to create new jobs. During the weekly Presidential address, Obama asked the Democrats and Republicans to join in finding a way to come up with a budget that gets rid of extravagant spending... 

Tweet U.S. Representatives plan to pass a temporary budget bill that will prevent a government shutdown and buy them time to debate on spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year. This bill is the compromise that the House Republicans came up with the Senate Democrats. The proposed budget bill will cut $4 billion from the budget and will target a few... 

Tweet The Republican leadership in Congress is pushing for more budget cuts, which Democrats are saying can lead to a government shutdown. The Republicans say that they want to keep the promise made during last fall’s elections to cut federal government spending. President Obama has already stated that he’ll veto any attempts by the Republicans to... 

Tweet The Republicans, those very “few” who’re armed against President Obama, have blocked a move to let Bush era tax cuts to be extended for the wealthiest people of America. As always Obama was very disappointed in the vote. He also commented, “It makes no sense to hold tax cuts for the middle class hostage to permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest... 

Tweet It might be the first time in history that a lot of the Arabs feel that if Iran was nuclear-armed it might be a very good thing for the Middle East. The Zogby International polls show that at least seven out of ten with the Arabs feels that the US actually poses as a very big threat to Iran. One expert from the University of Maryland Middle East,... 

Tweet Obama relived Gen. McChrystal from command earlier today. McChrystal served as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and now will be replaced by David Petraeus. McChrystal met with Obama for about 30 minutes and after the meeting shortly went to his home in Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C.  Prior to McChrystal’s arrival, the White House had asked...