Obama Deportation Numbers Nothing More Than a ‘Trick’
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith points out inPolitico today that the White House boasts on deportations are nothing more than a trick: "Unfortunately for U.S. workers, the Obama administration's immigration enforcement record is just a magic trick."
... Take away the hocus-pocus, and it is clear the Obama administration is neglecting to enforce immigration laws. The ...
Samsung ties up with BigFlix to offer streaming on demand movies on its Galaxy products
Samsung has partnered with BigFlix to offer on demand streaming movies to their Galaxy line of products. They have launched an app on the Samsung App Store called My Movies which users of their Galaxy devices can download to watch instant on demand movies from BigFlix.com. Currently BigFlix has about 1000 movies to offer and Samsung is offering the ...
NEWSEC in the TOP 3 of the best real estate advisors in the Baltics
Financial markets magazine EUROMONEY has announced the results on survey on the real estate market in 2011. Companies participating in this survey had to submit information about themselves and rate the other players of the market according to their services. According to the general survey results Newsec has been selected as the best real estate ...
Turkish Earthquake: Miracle Survivors Pulled Out of Rubble
A teacher and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings on Wednesday, almost three days after a devastating earthquake struck eastern Turkey, but searchers said hopes of finding anyone else alive were diminishing.
Excavators began clearing debris from some of the collapsed buildings in Ercis after searchers removed bodies and determined there were no other ...
Franchot votes against $7 million in school projects because AC is not included
Emotions ran high and discussions ran long as the Board of Public Works approved $7 million in Baltimore County school renovation projects – but not a cent of it going toward air conditioning in old schools.
Comptroller Peter Franchot voted against the projects because he felt the lack of air conditioning in 65 of the 172 ...
Alcohol tax money goes to districts that supported it
It took some Annapolis deal making in order to get the new 3% alcohol tax passed at the tail end of this year’s legislative session, and charges are being levied that politics are being played with where those proceeds are being spent.
Policymakers estimated that the tax would bring in $88 million in its first year. Initially intended to ...
Movie Marketing Madness: Margin Call
All great histories of tragic or monumental events need scapegoats, the person or persons on whom to hang the fault of what happened. We look at wars and other singular moments in history and try to find someone to blame, someone to look at as we say “If only this person had done something differently ...
Inbound Marketing Agency or DIY?
If you're a C-suite executive or business owner, chances are you've been talking to yourself a lot lately. The economy is much slower to rebound than we hoped. You must control costs since earnings are weaker than expected. You can't stop marketing, but marketing is your number one expense other than payroll. What's the best ...
Hispanic Parents Say Their Children are Being Bullied After Alabama Immigration Law
It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama.
The reaction was immediate, according to the Mexican mother of one of the winners, and rooted in the state's new law on illegal immigration.
"They told them, `You shouldn't be winning. You should go back to Mexico,'" ...
Apple takes challenging step for tech-kind with Siri
Apple Inc. took one of the most ambitious products it has ever created and hid it inside an iPhone.At one point on Friday, a Globe and Mail editor – a former technology section editor, at that – passed by my desk, where one of Apple’s shiny new iPhone 4S units sat next to a now-dated ...