Because humor is always the best and only cure to pervasive central planning that has made a mockery of traditional investing and capital allocation, and because nobody delivers unlimited sheer, unadulterated humor quite as well as one James J. Cramer when he is “recommending” stocks, here is the full text of Jim Cramer’s “The Winners of [...]

…just thought this needed posting to show you courts are nuts and laws need to be updated.  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California appellate judges urged legislators to update an arcane 19th century law, as the panel reversed the rape conviction of a man who authorities say pretended to be a sleeping woman’s boyfriend before initiating [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills. Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted Senate Democrats’ numbers slightly, Mr. Reid said he won’t end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative [...]

Some of the replacement referees working for the NFL — the nation’s most lucrative sport — aren’t even good enough for the Lingerie Football League, it was revealed on Tuesday.  The LFL, which fields women playing in bras and skimpy underwear, announced that it had fired several of the referees now calling prime time NFL games [...]

U.S. airlines collected more than $1.7 billion in baggage fees during the first half of the year, the largest amount ever collected in that six-month period. Delta Air Lines Inc. once again claimed the title as the airline collecting the most in baggage fees: nearly $430 million from January through June. The slightly larger United [...]

 A report today in an official outlet of the Iranian regime claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, will meet with members of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ahmadinejad is currently in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, where these reported meetings will take place. “Ahmadinejad is also set to meet American [...]

Hey yutz…THEY EARN IT! Read and watch: The more I watch MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, the more I believe he has difficulty finding the floor in the morning when he wakes up. Consider Thursday’s program when he actually told his tiny audience that the rich seeing bigger income gains than the rest of country the past [...]

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is resigning as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to lobby for the financial services industry. The Financial Services Roundtable announced Thursday that Pawlenty will become its new president and chief executive officer on November 1, days before the 2012 election. Pawlenty was an early entrant in [...]