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President Joe Biden said Thursday during a preview of an interview with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin that he had no advance knowledge of federal investigators’ raid on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s apartment and office. The full interview will air Friday morning on NBC’s “Today” show.

"...If they truly fear the unchecked growth of presidential power, then their best option is to come to the table and force compromise. It's the one sure way to keep Obama from going cowboy (or, in their minds, tyrant)."

Just a few : 1) iphone didnt work on day one either (Was there a iphone personal mandate?) 2) The website private contractors screwed it up, its capitalisms fault. (who managed them?) 3) The insurance companies are only canceling policies and charging you more for new ones to make THEM even more $$$ , more proof we need single payer. (but I thought Obamacare rules regulates/limits their profits) 4) The GOP red states broke the website by refusing to setup their own health care exchanges, which overwhelmed the system 5) If only that website was working then Americans would see...

HONOLULU - President Obama said that the United States has gotten a "little bit lazy" when it comes to bringing in new businesses in to the states. He made the comments at a CEO summit as part of the APEC conference Saturday, when asked by Boeing CEO James McNerney about looking at the world from a Chinese perspective and what they might consider as impediments to investing. Obama said it's important to remember that the U.S. is still the largest receiver of foreign investment in the world and things like stability, openness and innovative free market culture are attractive. He...

NEW YORK — As Hurricane Irene roars toward the East Coast — home to some of the country's most densely populated cities and costliest waterfront real estate — experts are forecasting a multibillion-dollar disaster. Hurricane Irene is expected to make landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm early Saturday, then move up the Eastern Seaboard, where more than 50 million people from the Carolinas to Massachusetts could be in the path of heavy rain and tropical-force winds. The economic impact of the hurricane largely will depend on factors that include the storm's size, where it makes landfall, and...

Jones Act Slowing Oil Spill Cleanup? June 10, 2010 - 5:41 PM | by: Brian Wilson Foreign companies possessing some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships say they are being kept out of efforts to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf because of a 1920’s law known as the Jones Act -- a protectionist law that requires vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers. Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has been studying the matter and wonders, “Are we accepting all the international assistance in the maritime...