Via Capitol Hill Cubans: Menendez Challenges Kerry’s Delay of Pro-Democracy Funds Senator Menendez Supports Funds to Promote Democracy in Cuba Menendez: “Democrats in Cuba are deserving of the same support and solidarity that we provided to dissidents in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and that we continue to send to peaceful activists in [...]

The huge WikiLeaks scandal that forced the resignation of cyber-security company HBGary’s CEO, Aaron Barr should also take down the company’s proposal to the Department of Defense for the latest in leaker prevention. Last August, as Danger Room reported, blue-sky research firm Darpa asked software engineers to design a system to sift through Defense Department [...]

Paul Ryan rolls out his budget at the Wall Street Journal as well as YouTube today in a powerful message. “Washington has not been telling you the truth,” … “If we don’t reform spending on government health and retirement programs, we have zero hope of getting our spending, and as a result our debt crisis, [...]

Equities research analysts at UBS Reiterate a “Buy” rating for shares of Noble Energy, Inc. (NBL) in a research note released to investors today. Noble Energy, the parent company of Samedan Oil Corporation, Noble Gas Marketing, Inc. and Noble Trading, Inc., is one of the nation’s leading independent energy companies. Noble Energy operates throughout major [...]

Equities research analysts at UBS Rated shares of KEMET Corporation (KEM) a “Neutral” rating in a research note released to investors today. KEMET Corporation and its subsidiaries is the world’s largest manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors and and one of the world’s largest manufacturer of multilayer ceramic capacitors. According to industry sources, tantalum and ceramic [...]

Gee. Imagine that. That’s supposed to be the test of scientific theory: when the same experiments produce the same results. A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing [...]

Speaker of the House John Boehner is being widely quoted as explaining that the United States does not have to fear protests by citizens for better government because many are too “poor and lazy” to act. This seems pretty unbelievable and a likely hoax. If so, it is a remarkably vicious act. In the supposed [...]

Equities research analysts at UBS Reiterate a “Buy” rating for shares of IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE) in a research note released to investors today. IntercontinentalExchange operates the leading electronic global futures and OTC marketplace for trading energy commodity contracts, including crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions. ICE conducts its markets for futures [...]

Equities research analysts at UBS Rated shares of HCA Holdings Inc (HCA) a “Buy” rating in a research note released to investors today. HCA Inc. is a non-governmental hospital in the U.S. providing health care and related services. The Company operates a network of acute care hospitals, outpatient facilities, clinics and other patient care delivery [...]

Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) has launched PremierNotes that will provide opportunity to the individuals and other qualified investors to make direct investments in new debt of the company. PremierNotes will have interest rate set at least a quarter of a percentage point higher than the average rate of taxable U.S. money-market mutual funds, which will [...]