Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect [...]
Today is “women are oppressed by evil white men” day, and the left has ginned itself up with the lie that women only make 77 cents for every dollar men make. Yeah, it is a lie. The truth is women make pretty much the same salary as men when “apples” are compared to “apples”… The [...]
Given that the principles of Life, Liberty and Property – what “the Pursuit of Happiness” refers to – are the bedrock on which American culture and society were built you would think that politicians would at least be respectful of The Big Three! Unfortunately you would be wrong! Attacks on these, most notably property rights, [...]
American Sugar producers have the federal government in their pockets. Not only is there a huge tariff on imported sugar, but now the Department of Agriculture is proposing to purchase 400,000 tons (with a “t”) of sugar from domestic producers so that those producers who borrowed money from the USDA are not at risk of [...]
The paltry spending cuts coming out of Congress are no where near enough to balance Washington’s budget, but in his analysis of the President’s State of the Union speech, New York Times writer Mark Landler happily went to pains to note that Obama signaled the end of “the era of single-minded deficit-cutting.” One has to [...]
Koch Industries recently published a response to the work of UK Independent journalist Steve Connor whose work, Koch says, “misled readers.” The two articles accused Koch Industries of secretly funding attacks on climate change. The articles written by Connor “got many facts about Koch wrong,” according to the open letter published on the company’s website. [...]
It is well noted that we live in an overly litigious society. But one small company in Las Vegas isn’t just knuckling under the thumb of a big corporation and the hammer-fist of another big lawsuit. Instead, the small business is taking the revolutionary view that big business should treat its customers as human beings. [...]
Two days after the election, CNBC published a dour report on the economy. Shockingly, CNBC is predicting that the U.S. economy is likely headed for another recession. CNBC so helpfully tells us that, now that the election is behind us, the light in our economic tunnel could be a “freight train.” Gee, it sure would [...]
Early in July extreme left-wing Mother Jones magazine published a piece claiming that Sally Pipes, the head of the Pacific Research Institute, was not doing a very effective job of leading the San Francisco-based conservative, free-market think tank. Unfortunately, whether the magazine is left-wing or not and whether these questions make me comfortable or not [...]
One of the things we were treated to at this year’s Right Online event, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, was the world premiere of the documentary film Occupy Unmasked. The one thing I can say about this film is it is absolutely intense. The amount of violence committed by the “Occupy” leftists is shocking when [...]
Democrats and left-wing activists have lately been pushing the idea of “equal pay” for women in an attempt to find some issue that would take attention away from the horrible economic record of the Obama administration as the campaign for the White House heats up. But who really benefits from this push? Trial lawyers, of [...]
How government uses its powers to regulate and license to act as a cartel for established businesses and to exclude new businesses Artist, veteran, and entrepreneur Julie Crowe wishes to provide a female-friendly vehicle-for-hire service for students in the Bloomington-Normal community, but her attempts are thwarted by city officials who insist students have no need [...]
It is more common everyday. A man buys a house, the market collapses and suddenly his house is worth less than the mortgage, then he loses his job until, as a single father, he finds himself in foreclosure with no place to raise his two preteen daughters. It’s a case made for the Occupy Wall [...]
Remember MF Global, the John Corzine flameout? Guess who was able to write a check for $2 billion (with a B) to buy some of the one year maturity Italian government bonds from MF Global’s bankruptcy trustee? None other than the Daddy Warbucks of the left, George Soros. A few tidbits from the story in [...]
The intersection of non-falsifiable theory, insanity, and reality can be summed up in one word: Unexpectedly.
This ought to be required watching for Jim Wallis and his gang of Religious Leftists at Sojourners: H/T Insty….
NRO points out the obvious: the government can’t run a business: The Detroit News’s dogged David Shepardson has unearthed a study by one of world’s most respected automotive research firms…
A few weeks ago, Iowahawk decided to do a little math in order to determine if, as prominent liberals like Michael Moore have claimed, there is really more than enough…
Today's economy is the worst period in decades for small businesses and startups to obtaining financing, writes The Wall Street Journal: Ensconced in a strip mall behind a Carpeteria outlet,…
Today's Argumenter: The New York Times Today's Argument: You Fix the Budget Bonus Argument: Disclaimer Text at the Bottom of the Page: Notes: These suggested cuts would need to be…
Some background on this: a couple of years ago a guy bought my truck. It was an old truck and it had been in a wreck (and was sitting in…
Me either. I was just thinking about that today when I remembered them from years ago. Seems like they just up and quit when it came time to actually elect…
Dana Milbank's book that slams Glenn Beck sold only 1,600 copies, a mere 4% of its printed copies: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank's new book critical of Fox News…
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