Economy
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Mark Sanford, Boeing jobs and conservative apathy
The First Congressional District of this gamecock’s native state will deserve the “Daily (labor union-funded-anti-Boeing-jobs) Show” that Stephen Colbert’s sister would co-host with…
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Youth unemployment at 16.1%, highest sustained rate since WWII
The April jobs report was released this morning, showing that the economy added 165,000 jobs in April as unemployment ticked…
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Want to know what Michelle Obama is wearing? There’s an app for that
If you care what the First Lady is wearing and have a buck burning a hole in your pocket, Apple…
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U.S. blocks imports of a typical French cheese, triggering protests
The U.S. government is blocking imports of a standard, normal-smelling French cheese, largely out of squeamishness. The cheese in question is…
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Miss water-boarding-obtained intel and Bush yet?
Bush, 9/11, Obama, Boston and the Axis of Evil It’s easy to forget the fear that gripped America in the…
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Taxpayers drop $152,500 on 'voice therapy' for transsexuals
“Improving the lives of TG people who feel their voice is a great obstacle to living as their preferred gender…”…
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on welfare: Were Boston bombings taxpayer-funded?
We should all have been paying closer attention to the Obama White House’s noodling around with the work requirements for…
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Don't waste billions in tax dollars on armed guards for America's schools
School violence has gone down in recent years, but in response to a few mass shootings, the Obama Administration and…
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Obama's massive, wasteful proposed budget is bad news for savers, taxpayers, and educational efficiency
President Obama’s budget was released on Wednesday, two months late. It’s a record $3.78 trillion, and contains lots of wasteful…
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Margaret Thatcher and the immorality of labor union strikes
Quitting your job is fine. Just get out of freedom’s way when you do. Every time this former labor union…
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Sequester alert: WH preps for 10th taxpayer-funded command performance
The “impacts of sequestration are real,” the heavily left-leaning Center for American Progress reports. Yet, in some quarters, the impacts…
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Krugman misleads on Hoover and the Great Depression
Paul Krugman’s recent column misleads its readers on Great Depression history. He writes: When the Great Depression struck, many influential people…
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UK’s online ‘class survey’ will tell if you’re nobility or a bum
In the U.S., class is a dirty word, used mostly in pejorative settings (think class warfare). In the UK, it’s a badge…
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As March report sees dismal 88K new jobs added, Obama is off campaigning
Optimists (read: the administration) will look at the March jobs report released this morning and observe that the unemployment rate…
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Welfare reform dies, as Social Security Disability program explodes
Welfare reform is largely dead. Many people who used to be on welfare have since gone onto Social Security Disability.…
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$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients
This is why the nation can’t have nice things. A new report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development reveals…
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Obama to teach American youth 'how to budget responsibly'
Don’t let the date fool you… In spite of the fact the national debt is currently at $53,106 per citizen…
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Taxpayers spring for Biden's third vacation in past three months
In the wake of Biden’s half million dollar one nighter in Gay Paree… Despite dire warnings from the Obama Administration…
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Feds spending $880,000 to study SNAIL SEX!?!? Your tax dollars at work
Have you ever laid in your bed at night, stared at the ceiling, and said to yourself, “Gee, I wonder…
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Cyprus: When law and order prescribe theft
Who will shoulder the pain from the Cyprus bailout deal? The first-order sufferers will be small businessmen (mostly Russian) and…
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No Cypriot (or second American?) tea party despite criminal government theft
Despite how far down the nanny state/socialist road the U.S. has traveled since the 1930s, is there any doubt that if President…
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Biden has been flying home to Delaware on weekends on taxpayer’s dime
What lasts 45 minutes, has a ridiculous weave, and costs taxpayers an uncool $13,200? It’s Vice President Joe Biden flying…
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Your tax dollars at work: $384,949 to study duck 'ding-dongs'
Did you know that some duck penises are corkscrew-shaped? Do you think anybody cares except for maybe another duck? Well…
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Despite sequester Obama designates 5 new national monuments
“There is a sucker born every minute.” That quote is attributed to showman P.T. Barnum. Another putative Barnum quote is “The show…
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CNN's Martin counsels GOP contentment with state power
CNN’s Roland Martin deems the post-Campaign 2012 Republican Party “autopsy” premature based upon election results at the state level and…
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