Last Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs and unemployment report for the month of October. A bad report, it noted that the closely-watched U-3 report of total unemployment rose to 7.9 percent. This confirmed to many ...
Upstate New York is a land of bucolic hillsides, where farmers wake up to find - as I did when I recently visited friends there - that the horse has escaped from the corral and is, once again, eating the ...
Begging in public parks is OK if it’s for public TV. Honest! Literally hundreds of people showed up to the Million Puppet March in Washington, D.C. on November 3. Like many liberal events, there were the initial problems with semantics. ...
As the elections approach, the fraud enablers over at the Brennan Center for Justice appear to be celebrating the success of their race mongering campaign against commonsense and overwhelmingly popular polling place protections. Even though they misguidedly think that they ...
The Brennan Center for Justice has been the go-to resource for many opponents of commonsense anti-voter fraud efforts such as voter ID. The essence of the Brennan Center's argument against voter ID is that that voter fraud isn't a real ...
Critics of commonsense anti-fraud measures such as voter ID continue to engage in desperate efforts to change public opinion on the issue, racing from one complaint to another. They've claimed that requiring voters to present identification is a form of ...
In post-election post-mortem mode, many so-called Christian conservatives wonder why President Obama won so decisively. They similarly scratch their heads over same-sex marriage victories in Maryland and Maine and defeated pro-life candidates in states once thought to be reliably conservative ...
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a vision of the federal government as our savior is being perpetuated by the media and the left. This romanticized vision of the benefits of an ever-expanding government assuming command of everything — from ...
Homeownership rates have declined in America since the start of the economic crisis in 2008. Nowhere has the homeownership decline been more acute than in the black community. In 2004, 49.1 percent of black households owned their own home. In ...
Obama's victory means four more years with no hope or change. When I think about what the future offers, it reminds me of the last thing I said during my closing remarks at a 2008 debate for state representative in ...
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