politics

Swiss pharmaceutical company, Roche, maker of Tamiflu is projecting $2.6 billion in sales of their anti-viral drug, Tamiflu, in 2009.

Tamiflu reduces symptoms of the flu but that comfort comes at a price. The drug is costing American families over $10 per pill of Tamiflu. A normal course of ten capsules will cost families approximately $104 at a Wal-Mart pharmacy.

Meghan McCain, daughter of two-time presidential candidate and Joe the Plumber’s BFF, John McCain, managed to get herself into another sexually tinged situation this week after posting a provocative picture to her Twitter account.

This isn’t the first time the happy-go-lucky politician’s daughter has managed to raise the temperature and draw the ire of social conservatives.

Cable station Fox News and the White House has stepped up the rhetoric to cold war levels in recent days.

Displeased with the opinionated coverage of Fox News, the White House has been openly critical of the ideological news outlet and now takes regular and open jabs at the organization and its decision makers.

Early Friday morning, it was announced by the Nobel Foundation that America's first black president, Barack Obama, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama earned the prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

A bi-partisan panel of congressional representatives have reportedly sent a letter to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski demanding an investigation of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for their management of their online calling software, Google Voice.

Former Texas Congressman and Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay has quit ABC’s Dancing with the Stars after suffering stress fractures in both feet.