The contrasts couldn’t have been clearer between the sore loser Hillary Clinton and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama this evening. A defiant Hillary refused to concede defeat in a speech in New York even after Obama passed the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the Democratic party’s convention in Denver in August. He is also […]
H1-B Visa program, the scourge of American software programmers and other professionals, has reached its cap of 65,000 within seven days of opening the gates for fiscal 2009. Most likely, the cap was reached on April 1 itself although the official announcement from USCIS came today. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said today […]
Most folks would be loath to join the U.S. armed forces in the midst of a war where soldiers are getting their limbs, heads and bodies blown off in a faroff land, right? So, what does the U.S. Army do? In desperation, the U.S. Army has been forced to hire criminals, convicts, high-school failures and […]
In the distance, you can see Lincoln Memorial (white building), while in the foreground are tombstones of American soldiers
U.S. teenage girls have a high rate of venereal disease a.k.a. sexually transmitted infections (STI). One in every four teenage girls in U.S. has at least one of the most common venereal diseases, according to a recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Based on the study, the authors conservatively estimate that 3.2 million […]
What’s wrong with America? In the supposedly richest country in the world, 47 million Americans are uninsured and have no access to even basic healthcare. Even those with health insurance are routinely denied treatment by greedy insurance companies. Now comes more disturbing news. The U.S. has been ranked last in providing effective healthcare to its citizens, […]