The Obama administration plans to intensify its crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, creating a new office within Immigration and Customs Enforcement dedicated to auditing company employment records. Dubbed the Employment Compliance Inspection Center, this new branch will “address a need to conduct audits even of the largest employers…
Continue reading …Bedbugs are starting to take on the characteristics of comic book villains. The first comprehensive study shows that as we keep dosing them with pesticides, they keep getting stronger, reports the Wall Street Journal . They’ve quickly developed natural defenses on three fronts—better nerve centers to fight off the chemicals,…
Continue reading …Not to besmirch JFK on the 50th anniversary of his inauguration, but Robert Dallek points out in Salon that Kennedy didn’t accomplish all that much in his 1,000-day presidency. None of his major initiatives made it through Congress, and his foreign policy record isn’t enough to explain the “great…
Continue reading …Roger Ebert has a new prosthetic chin, he writes at the Chicago Sun-Times . “That’s not to fool anyone, because my appearance is widely known,” he explains. It’s more of a “pleasant reminder of the person I was for 64 years.” Cancer surgeries left Ebert’s face disfigured, a fact that went…
Continue reading …Curling up with your dog or cat at the end of a tough day might not feel so warm and fuzzy after reading this: Allowing your pets to sleep in your bed could actually kill you, according to veterinary scientists. A new study shows that those who sleep with their…
Continue reading …House Republicans are about to unveil a massive spending reduction bill that would slash $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the Republican Study Committee, will unveil his “Spending Reduction Act” at a Heritage Foundation speech today, the Daily Caller reports. The…
Continue reading …There’s nothing quite so heartwarming as the story of a man who cheats on his universally beloved wife with a tattooed stripper , but turns it all around and gets engaged to yet another tattoo enthusiast. Yes, those crazy kids Jesse James and Kat Von D are betrothed. Despite the aforementioned…
Continue reading …A sad footnote to a tragic story: The mother of Isabelle Caro, the anorexic model who died last month , has committed suicide. Marie Caro’s husband told a Swiss paper that she felt “enormous guilt” about her daughter’s eating disorder and death and was beside herself over the press coverage that…
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