Economy
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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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Budget cuts prevent agency from destroying millions in valuable computer equipment
A federal agency unnecessarily destroyed $170,000 worth of computing hardware, and planned to destroy $3 million more, in response to…
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Two House Dems propose a new national park — on the moon
Remember back in February when Barack Obama warned that America would feel the pain once sequestration kicked in? Among the federal…
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America: From a nation of steelworkers to a nation of Wal-Mart greeters
Despite some spin doctors in Washington, D.C., touting a drop in the number of those the Federal government qualifies as…
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Another Obama record: Unemployment at or above 7.5% for 54 straight months
If you’re into noting presidential records, here’s a new one to add to your list for Barack Obama. Since 1948,…
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Kings George III, Obama: Choking off independent economic life
If only a gorget and a fort made of palmetto logs could stop the choking today as in 1776 Happy…
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Obama warns Africans not to improve their lifestyle because 'the planet will boil over' if they do
You have to feel bad for the people of Africa. After all, we are the sad saps who elected Barack…
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Obama’s legacy on pace to be a mess his successor will inherit
“Obama Turns Focus on Middle-Class Jobs.” So read a results-promising headline at Voice of America on May 18. Yahoo! News was equally optimistic a…
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