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0bama's Highest Support Amongst Muslims |
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Written by Terrance P. Jeffries
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 20:42 |
(CNSNews.com) - While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian religions (not including Judaism) gave Obama his second highest approval rating at 64 percent, according to Gallup, and people who described themselves as having no religion, or being agnostics, or atheists gave Obama a 63 percent approval rating. |
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Written by Fred Lucas
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Friday, 27 August 2010 11:24 |
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(CNSNews.com) – Even as President Barack Obama and administration officials declared this to be “Recovery Summer,” it is difficult to determine whether the administration’s jobs boasts are accurate, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the accounting arm of Congress.
The CBO’s quarterly report of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package, was released Tuesday.
The CBO found 749,142 full-time jobs were funded by stimulus dollars in the second quarter of 2010. This data was based on recipient reports to the government. But the CBO said these recipient reports, “do not provide a comprehensive estimate of the law’s impact on U.S. employment, which could be higher or lower than the number of FTE [full-time equivalent] jobs reported.” |
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Who's the Biggest (campaign) Spender of them All? |
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Written by Ed U. Cater
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:06 |
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Political ads constantly warn Americans to beware of the legislative clout big business can buy. But the biggest political campaign spender isn't ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart or Microsoft, or even an industry association like the American Bankers Association. It's not even an entire labor federation, like the AFL-CIO. Indeed, the combined campaign spending of all those entities does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public-sector union of 2.3 million teachers and nearly one million support staff. In a first-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis of 2007-2008 state and national election cycle spending, the NEA ranked number one on state and federal campaign, political party, and ballot measure spending, shelling out $56.3 million, or $12.5 million more than the second-place group. If you add the $12 million spent by the American Federation of Teachers and the $3.4 million spent on NEA/AFT joint campaigns, the two unions doled out a whopping $71.7 million in the 2007-2008 election cycle. |
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Written by Can Noodler
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:03 |
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It was Barbara Billingsly who willingly helped out in the movie "Airplane" when she translated for a stewardess by volunteering "Oh! I speak Jive!" But now officials of the US Drug Enforcement Administration are looking for similar help DEA officials want people who speak Ebonic. Agency representatives say they are serious about needing people to translate conversations picked up on wiretaps during investigations. A solicitation was sent to contractors as part of a request to companies to provide hundreds of translators in 114 languages.
"DEA's position is, it's a language form we have a need for," Special Agent Michael Sanders said. "I think it's a language form that DEA recognizes a need to have someone versed in the dialect to conduct investigations. |
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