Alice Walton: richer today, thanks to Wal-Mart's rise. Wal-Mart shares continue to soar following an impressive first quarter report, hitting a 10-year high this week and closing at $64.57 on Wednesday. Two shareholders in particular can cheer a little louder than the average investor as a result: Christy and Alice Walton, America’s richest women, who both saw their fortunes rise with the big-box giant’s stock. The Waltons — sisters-in-law, and two of six Wal-Mart heirs on the Forbes 400 — made more than $550 million between them on Wednesday, according to Forbes’ recently launched Real-Time index, tracking daily gains and losses in the major public holdings of a select group of billionaires. While Alice is now the richest she’s ever been, Christy’s still about $1 ... Continue reading →
"How many votes?" Karl Rove at the Baytowne Conference Center, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 in Sandestin, Fla (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily) The Millennials can’t get down with Mitt Romney. Not yet, anyway. A recent national poll of 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics shows President Obama with a 17 point lead over his presumptive opponent: 43% to 26%, up from an 11 point lead in November. Despite these lackluster numbers, the pollster behind the survey thinks Romney has a chance to take the Millennial vote — or at least, a crucial chunk of it. He has a powerful albeit unexpected new ally in his quest to gain ground with young people: Karl Rove, age 61. Harvard Institute of Politics’ polling director John ... Continue reading →
Gays And Lesbians In Electrified Pen To Kill Them Says Charles L. Worley, North Carolina Pastor. The barrage of anti-gay sermons delivered by North Carolina-based pastors to hit the blogosphere continues with yet another disturbing rant caught on tape. The pastor, identified on YouTube as Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama's much-publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off. "Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there," Worley suggests in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13. He continues: "Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that ... Continue reading →
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As it turns out, Pom Wonderful isn’t quite so wonderful after all. A federal administrative judge ruled on Monday that the pomegranate juice maker used deceptive advertising when it suggested that the juice could treat or prevent diseases. The ruling, which upheld a 2010 Federal Trade Commission complaint, said that Pom didn’t have the evidence to back up its claims that antioxidants in pomegranate juice could “treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction.” The news, and accompanying cease-and-desist order, was a blow to billionaire power couple Lynda and Stewart Resnick, who own Pom and a couple of other small, but relatively well-known brands like Fiji Water and Teleflora. They had staked much of the marketing behind the specialty ... Continue reading →
SpaceX successfully launched the first commercial rocket today. The Falcon 9 rocket along with the Dragon capsule is loaded with the hopes and dreams of hundreds of students around the USA. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), launched June 2010 by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, is an important U.S. national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education initiative that gives students across a community the ability to design and propose real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit, first aboard the final flights of the Space Shuttle, and then on the International Space Station (ISS)—America’s newest National Laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon/Dragon ship launch successfully marks a new era in commercial space transportation. It will ... Continue reading →
