Economy
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Billboard adorned with photo of porn star seeks college girls with ‘strong oral skills’
Barack Obama has repeatedly stated that one of his chief goals is increasing the number of recipients of college degrees…
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Rock, hard place, Syria
Through his latest action, calling for a vote of Congress on a strike against the Assad regime – but not…
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Detroit taking bids on new $140M light rail project to be built on federal taxpayers’ dime
Detroit may be on the verge of financial ruin, but that hasn’t stopped the city from moving full-speed ahead on…
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Survey of corporate economists' message to Obama: Fix the deficit!
An organization for corporate economists, the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), published its bi-annual survey this morning, and the…
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Now trending on Twitter: Obama bus tour names
The 2012 election is over, and in the view of many, the best man lost. You’d never know that the…
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Portland city commissioner wants speeding tickets based on income
How far can the loony left obsession with equality go? A story from Red Alert Politics hints at an answer: Take a…
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Sequester has now killed adorable bunny rabbits
No, really — it has. And it’s all Congress’s fault. (Well, not all of Congress. Just Republicans, who want to “hurt…
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Obama’s $5-a-year cell phone tax to fund high-speed internet in schools
Hey, buddy, can you spare a fin? You can? Great — how about a sawbuck? That’s no bum (or at…
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Fed student loan program rewards colleges for raising tuition, gives lefty lawyers free ride at taxpayer expense
A recent Washington Post article describes “how Georgetown Law gets Uncle Sam to pay its students’ bills,” averaging $158,888 over…
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Petition asks High Court to hear arguments over whether lap dance is artistic expression
Maybe the plaintiff’s attorneys should have tried making the case that the dances are ethnic in nature, like Brahms’s Hungarian…
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What happens in Obama’s world after you ‘get ahead’?
Nile Gardiner has an interesting column in The Telegraph titled “Barack Obama’s clueless message to America’s middle class shows a presidency…
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Obama makes it official: Keystone XL Pipeline is a no-go
OK, the headline is perhaps premature. President Obama didn’t come out formally and declare that the Keystone XL Pipeline is…
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Occupational licensing rules impoverish young people, rip off the public
In some states, occupational licensing rules give trade schools the power to force people to attend before they can get…
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College Republicans denied admittance to Obama speech
“There is no red America or blue America…” No, wait. Make that “There is no red America, period. At least…
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Was Obama making a thinly veiled threat in today’s ‘jobs speech’?
It has been observed in this space before that Barack Obama loves a good fight. Or at least he claims…
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The government's harmful, costly obsession with homeownership
The federal government has spent vast sums of money promoting homeownership through subsidies, tax exemptions and credits, and bailouts. For…
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Ten things government can’t do without an income tax
1. Think your income is too big and another person’s is too small. 2. Propose to “redistribute income” using government…
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Flashback: Obama boasts, I ‘refused to let Detroit go bankrupt’
This is in no way to make light of Detroit’s plight, which is no laughing matter. Yesterday, the Motor City…
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Workers laid off … via text message
Can the “pink tweet” (think pink slip) be far behind? Employees at a restaurant in Winter Park, Fla., say they…
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Twinkies are back, but the jobs making them are not
It’s a report that is sure to rankle both adult members of the Obama family — Mister because it is…
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