OPINION

Several industry bellwethers like Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) ) and NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) have reported poor resuilts or forecasts. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will axe 27,000 people. Is a new tech recession ahead?

The basic concept behind taxes, the real reason no one is ever told, is that governments can spend your money better than you can spend your money.

In the past week, Roger Goodell has been named in two high profile lawsuits involving players.

Just two years removed from their second straight championship, the Lakers are no longer title contenders.

Dollars? He's got billions. Facebook friends? He's got millions. His name is Mark Zuckerberg.

The G8 leaders also said that it is ?our imperative to promote growth and jobs?.

The Lakers would be wise to avoid pursuing Lamar Odom.

The New York Times has done it again. They?ve succeeded in breaking yet another cutting-edge news story on Sunday?s front page: ?Beware, Mitt Romney is a Mormon.?

The Lotus F1 Team made one of its weirder announcements for the Formula 1 season on Monday when it said that it had teamed up with the slightly whiny and outdated emo rock band Linkin Park to create an iPad App for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix.

It?s a good thing we?ve had access to low-cost coal-based electricity, because it has proven for decades to be one of the most important things to ensure small businesses can keep the lights on and the doors open.

During my many years of following American political thought, one overwhelming truth has emerged: There is nothing as powerful as an idea (be it intelligent or stupid) whose time has come.

I have never understood the public's obsession with the wealth and personal lifestyles of celebrities and the super-affluent

One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)?s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.

rance's newly-elected Socialist President Francois Hollande met with U.S. President Barack Obama at Camp David, prior to the G-8 summit meeting.

The Heat may not have gone the best route by signing three stars at once.

In a talk at New York's Princeton Club, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman said the solution to create more jobs and get the U.S. economy to grow faster isn't rocket science: it's fiscal stimulus.

Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.

Mitt Romney?s rejection of a Super-Pac?s proposed anti-Obama campaign featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president?s former pastor, demonstrates that Romney has more political sense than the Super-Pac?s big daddy, Joe Ricketts, a longtime conservative donor and founder of TD Ameritrade.

In a newly released campaign ad, President Barack Obama promises that the economy is back on the mend. The only problem is: the numbers say otherwise.

While the rest of the world is focused on Greece?s exit from the euro zone, the news that caught my eye is Finland finally getting its first Starbucks café.

Obama addressed the graduating class of Barnard College in New York on Monday.

Out of 289 Republicans in congress, only one -- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) -- shares the same views as Obama on gay marriage. She may be the bravest Republican in congress.

With Democrats defending nearly twice as many Senate seats as Republicans in 2012, the GOP has an excellent chance of taking the upper chamber and holding majorities in both houses of Congress.

The GOP touts itself as the party of job creation. But the party of which president - Democratic or Republican - creates more jobs per year, on average?

For months, Yahoo has been in crisis. Market share fell. CEO Carol Bartz was fired. A Chinese tycoon said he?d buy the company.

Here are the three teams that can prevent the Miami Heat from winning this year's NBA Finals.

President Obama came out yesterday stating that he supports same-sex marriage, or as Bristol Palin put it in her blog, President Obama came out of the closet for gay marriage.

But seriously, big-brain budget chatter distracts us from what should be our top priority: Getting the economy back on track.

The new Beastie Boys lawsuit over samples on two classic albums has re-opened the tired debate over hip hop artist's practice of re-purposing of snippets of music to make beats.