Economy
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White House study: Raising minimum wage would help women
Would raising the minimum wage help lift women out of poverty? That is what the White House aimed to prove…
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Your tax dollars at work: Feds drop $700K on a climate change musical
It looks like the National Science Foundation has been handing out grants for some unorthodox research projects, according to House…
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Obama taps multi-millionaire celebrities to hawk Obamacare specifically to blacks
With a special emphasis on the black community, Barack Obama is leaning heavily on his entertainment-world connections to convince as…
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Food stamps just got a whole lot sexier for Louisianans, who can use them for ‘adult purchases’
Barack Obama isn’t just the food stamp president. He’s the love stamp president — at least for recipients of the government hand-out living…
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Obama’s Ides of March murder of the rule of law
The assassination of Julius Caesar 2,058 years ago today in the middle, or Ides, of March signaled the end of…
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Chuck Schumer: Pass amnesty or ‘watch the President greatly curtail deportations’
Senator Chuck Schumer gave Republicans an ultimatum on illegal immigration in a ranting Facebook post Friday, saying falsely that “Republicans have only…
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A better argument against raising the minimum wage
According to the website raisethemimimumwage.com, the government-mandated wage was established in 1938, and reached its greatest relative value in 1968 when…
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Obamacare coverage mandates alone enough to wreck health care
Delays in employer and individual mandates, expanded grandfather clauses for pre-Affordable-Care-Act policies and a broad hardship exemption from the individual…
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33,000 more jobs lost thanks to just one Obamacare tax
If you take the Obama administration’s word for it, the Affordable Care Act will raise over $800 billion by 2022…
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IRS warns uninsured of the ‘Shared Responsibility Payment’
First it was the individual mandate, then it was a tax, then it was a penalty, and now it is…
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Destroying the GOP: How immigration caused California’s blue shift
Republicans won California in every presidential election of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, except for the ’64 Goldwater loss. Now California…
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Senators Cruz, Paul, Lee vindicated: Obamacare will increase premiums for 11 mil workers
Under Obamacare, 65 percent of small businesses will experience an increase in health premiums, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
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Yes, Obama cut the deficit it in half — but he doubled it first
Either Barack Obama stinks at math or he’s a liar. Or maybe it’s a little bit from Column A and…
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WH adds new misleading term to political debate on income inequality
It used to be that Barack Obama and his band of merry men were waging war against the haves in…
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Minimum wage increase would wipe out 500,000 jobs, CBO concludes
“Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing” would “cut employment by roughly 500,000…
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WH back to ‘saving’ jobs
Remember that meaningless stat from the early days of the Obama presidency? It meant nothing back then — there’s no…
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Free speech includes ‘offensive’ speech
“The Wandering Dago food truck wants to park and sell food at various events on New York State property. The…
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Tom Perkins: If Germany had America’s gun laws, there would never have been a Hitler
Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky interviewed billionaire Tom Perkins on Thursday, who was in the news in late January for daring to…
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Clintons’ poverty-producing policies worse than peccadillos
That’s right, both Clintons are Democrats who favor economic policies that have an irrefutable track record of killing jobs, preventing…
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Low-wage workers live better in the U.S. than in Europe
European countries sometimes have higher national minimum wages than the U.S., but things cost so much there that low-wage workers typically consume far less than in…
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After Obama, America will need fundamental transformation
That is, if remaining Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and their successors are to live in a nation that even…
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Keystone XL Pipeline is a REAL economic stimulus
Last week the State Department released a report which said in part that the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline…
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Uninsured while self- or underemployed for 20 years
Millions of such small business owners share similar healthcare-deprived histories, never qualified for unemployment compensation, and often aren’t counted in…
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Dems have long discouraged all but slave, government, and union labor
And only limited amounts of non-government versions of the latter. Democrats are the ones that need to be put out of…
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Two million jobs will disappear due to Obamacare, CBO says; Budget deficit to rise
“The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.3 million jobs and…
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50 years of change Sam Cooke wanted and some he didn’t
Fifty-one years ago, Sam Cooke and his band were denied rooms at a Holiday Inn in Shreveport, Louisiana thanks to…
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State budgets dependant on the federal government
During a meeting of the National Governors Association last month, governors from across the country “criticized Congress” for “the political gridlock…
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The Obama administration’s attack on the U.S. financial system
A weapon formed against us.
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Obama: ‘economy speeding up,’ vows to bypass congress
President Obama gave his weekly address Saturday. It is unclear if he is speaking of America, because his statements seemed…
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Big Biz GOP donors, Dem Labor Unions for cheap labor
Of course, big businesses led by Democrats, Republicans and independents naturally favor greater supplies of labor, but these aren’t your…
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New video by Free Market America: #WeAreNotTheMasses
In 2012, Free Market America created a video called “If I wanted America to fail” that inspired millions. Today, the organization has released…
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Raise the minimum wage and help the poor (politician win votes)
In case you missed it — and apparently, many Americans did — the president gave his State of the Union…
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The President’s debunked wage gap claim
Commentators recently debunked the president’s wage gap claim in his State of the Union address, noting that labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth found…
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