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Perhaps they’re just trying to free people so they can be poets and play the bongos and commune with nature? Here’s that ultra-Conservative newspaper the NY Times to tell us all about it Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid […]
Here’s an interesting case. According to court documents, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador was busted for marijuana possession in 2006 because the car he was driving — belonging to a friend — had a malfunctioning brake light. A blunt was found in the vehicle, and the immigrant received probation. Meanwhile, the federal government began […]
New York parents were outraged to hear that an: elementary school teacherhad been: shooting up heroin: while on the job – and the: teacher’s union representing him is thwarting efforts to reveal his identity. A school employee found heroin and drug paraphernalia in the faculty lounge at Benjamin Cosor Elementary School on Fallsburg, N.Y., on two separate occasions, according […]
Let’s keep it together, people. I speak of the way we are responding to record snow and cold sweeping across vast regions of the country. People are cussing at snowplow drivers and each other. Panicked shoppers are fighting over toilet paper and milk. Americans are suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder in unprecedented numbers. For goodness’ […]
Hollywood and Washington: Both entertaining, often boring and far too often irresponsible. Midterm elections will bring out Hollywood celebrities supporting lots of glad-handing politicians, attracting the least informed voters: the People/US/Entertainment Weekly crowd. And rightfully so. While some in Hollywood and D.C. strive for financial responsibility, there are those who have no understanding of the […]
On the day that Facebook paid $19 billion for the aptly named WhatsApp, San Francisco’s Gap Inc. announced it would raise its minimum wage for American employees to $9 per hour this year and $10 per hour in 2015. The announcement probably won’t make a dent in the income inequality gap in the Bay Area, […]
Is Bill Clinton still president? Has he been caught fooling around with another intern in the Oval Office? Has Paula Jones filed another lawsuit? Is Hillary Clinton still standing by her bad man? I must be in the 1990s again. Why else would I have seen Kathleen Willey on TV talking about Bill Clinton repeatedly […]
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net The State vs The People: Kiev’s Independence Square: Before & After Kiev is on fire in many different ways and you could probably do a countdown to Russian tanks rolling in and quelling the masses with an Olympic stop watch. In fact, the Polish Foreign Minister bluntly warned the Ukrainian opposition, […]
Political gamesmanship, or Congress-come-lately? As much as I’d like to think the GOP is finally putting its big boy pants on, I’m not overly optimistic: In light of Obama’s habitual disregard for the Constitution, the movement to sue the president for his transgressions is gaining ground – fast. It all started with a few representatives […]
Justice may come late, but for this father of three who was jailed for 23 years, it did come: A father-of-three who was wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years after being framed for murder by a rogue detective has reached a $6.4 million settlement with New York City. David Ranta, 59, was freed last year after […]
Via Weasel Zippers, it looks like unions: are hitting another wall in the South, less than a week after a vote that left liberals blindsided: South Carolina is glad to have non-union jobs from BMW, Michelin and Boeing, but don’t expect any factories from Ford, General Motors, Chrysler or other companies with unionized work forces. […]
I had a chance to speak with John Boehner’s primary challengers in OH-8 and came away very impressed with J.D. Winteregg. The man gets it. He gets the dire circumstances that the country is facing and he understands that John Boehner has been a singularly ineffective Speaker of the House. He needs to be unseated. […]
A new transparency project has been launched in California that helps citizens learn just how much salary their government employees earn and the results are shocking. Hundreds of government workers make upwards to and more than $400,000 a year even as California drowns in taxes to pay for it all. Over at Forbes, Mark Bucher […]
I’ve always had a soft spot for Howard Stern. He’s smart, he’s hilarious, and his show has always had libertarian leanings. Now, it looks like he’s officially left the liberal plantation. A few years after endorsing Obama, he’s changed his mind, ranting about Democrats’ “gangsterism.” After FCC commissioners announced they have reached a deal to […]
Five words: mad as a march hare. Louis Farrakhan is babbling lately about a UFO that will destroy white America. He’s calling on Obama to help by opening up Area 51. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan asked that President Obama open up Area 51 to scientists in a sermon he gave on Saturday, February […]
This story gives new meaning to the term “nanny state.” A State Senator in New York thinks all parents should be required to take parenting classes before their kids can move on to 7th grade. Not that it’s ever stopped a Democratic bill, but people are already calling the proposal “insane.” New York state Sen. […]
Ronald Reagan once said “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Democrats aren’t even waiting to see if e-cigs keep moving before they run straight to regulation (National Review) There […]
At one point, Massachusetts was the model for Obamacare. Whatever your opinion of a state run insurance program, with a requirement that people must purchase health insurance, it seemed to work. Most residents supported it. Most liked it. Roughly 98% of the citizens obtained health insurance. And under the stewardship of Republican governor, it wasn’t […]
The state of Texas has shut down a Houston abortion provider for non-compliance with a: new law requiring doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Per the Houston Chronicle: The Department of State Health Services has revoked the abortion license of A Affordable Women’s Medical Center and the: Texas Medical Board: has temporarily suspended the […]
In the wake of President Obama’s 23rd: vacation,: Judicial Watch: estimated the first family has milked the public trough for more than $18 million in hotel and resort expenses, security costs, car rentals and airfare. And the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but cooperative, the Washington Examiner reported last week. The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group […]
The 7 Reasons Why I’m A Conservative, Not a Liberal 1) I’m a pragmatist: At its heart, isn’t politics supposed to be about making life better for people? If an education program sounds good, but doesn’t help kids learn, what good is it? No matter how good an economic policy sounds today, if it turns […]
If five years of the Obama administration has taught us anything, it is that presidents do not need Congress to further their agenda. All they need is to surround themselves with “yes men” who share similar disrespect for the Constitution and its founders. It also helps to have a trusty pen and phone, as President […]
On some of America’s most contentious issues, civil discourse takes a back seat to ugly outcry. Last week, masked protesters carrying torches and threatening organized violence demonstrated on the front lawn of the Enbridge Energy Management Company’s president. Environmentalists made a late night visit to Mark Maki’s home and promised “solidarity means attack,” and pledged […]
The House will soon consider H.R. 3865, which would prohibit the IRS from rushing a final rule regulating 501(c)(4) organizations in the middle of the current tax year. If the floor debate looks like the bill’s markup in the Ways and Means Committee, it will be split right down party lines. Republicans will condemn the […]
Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook’s blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of instant messaging provider WhatsApp. The second (which few have noticed) is the horrific earnings report issued by Texas-based retail chain […]
Since its inception, the Obama administration has engaged in the deceptive routine of claiming that “economists” or “every economist” or a “consensus” among economists is in lock-step agreement over whatever policy prescription the White House happens to be peddling at the moment. It began with the stimulus, when President Barack Obama misleadingly asserted that “economists […]
We all know that colleges these days are sex-obsessed to a preposterous degree. It’s bad enough when unwilling students are subjected to relentless vulgarity–one could argue that if they don’t like the campus climate, they should attend school elsewhere. But is it really acceptable for some idiot in a giant penis costume to accost schoolchildren […]
Wait, didn’t liberals tell us that the knockout game is a figment of racist imaginations? Two Louisiana teens have been arrested in connection with a possible “knockout game” death. The victim’s injuries sure do fit the profile of a “knockout game” attack. Windall Herring, 19, and an unnamed 15-year-old were arrested in Baton Rouge on […]