The mainstream media is reporting Al Qaeda is confirming Osama Bin Laden’s death. It took a few hours to explain what exactly that means. True to form, the Al Qaeda confirmation follows the wacky Obama kills Osama Bin Laden storyline. What does I mean wacky? Well since Sunday night, the story of the death of [...]

It’s here. Special thanks to Aaron Hanscom at Pajamas Media for turning this submission around so quickly. It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires. ___________________________________________________ The column’s opening paragraph: On the evening of May 1, I was heartened to see crowds of mostly young [...]

You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. Or so the saying goes. The GOP held its first presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, with the help of some very interesting — and very telling — company from the farthest of the far-right fringe. According to ThinkProgress, the official program [...]

NEWS House Foreign Affairs Committee U.S. House of Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman For IMMEDIATE Release Ros-Lehtinen Comments on the Announced Departure of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement on the news that the Assistant Secretary of [...]

The new Egypt sure is so busy wit their new enlightenment. Earlier,  these Lara-Logan-loving freedom activists were protesting the glorious kill of  OBL. President Obama supported the rise of the Philistines (akak Muslim Brotherhood) instead of supporting our 30 year ally, the only country that signed a peace deal with Israel. This will not end [...]

I would be lying if I said I will miss him: U.S. top diplomat for LatAm to resign Washington – The U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, will leave government service to return to teaching, a State Department official told Efe. Valenzuela’s two-year leave of absence from his professorship at [...]

Before the bell, Constellation Energy Group Inc. (CEG) reported its first quarter 2011 results. In the reported quarter, the company with adjusted earnings per share of 63 cents came in below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 96 cents and year-ago earnings of $1.43. On a reported basis, including one-time items, earnings per share came in [...]

Smith & Nephew (SNN) reported an adjusted EPS of 18.4 cents (EPADS of 92 cents) during the first quarter of fiscal 2011 missing the year-ago quarter’s 18.8 cents (EPADS of 94 cents) and the Zacks Consensus Estimate (ADS) of 93 cents. The company reported revenues of $1,055 million in the quarter, up 6% from the [...]

PMI Group Inc. (PMI) reported first-quarter net loss of 79 per share, narrower than the loss of $1.90 per share in first-quarter 2010. Net loss was $126.8 million compared with a loss of $157 million in the prior-year quarter. The quarter continues to suffer due to mortgage losses. Results include a pre tax gain of [...]

Pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners L.P. (ETP) announced weak first quarter results, as volumes suffered due to a lower base of differentials between the West and East Texas market hubs. The owner of the biggest intrastate pipeline system in Texas reported earnings per unit of 71 cents, below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.03 and [...]