The Los Angeles City Council isn’t currently planning to further discuss a proposal exempting union members from the southern California city’s new minimum wage, despite the proposal having the backing of labor unions. A spokesperson for Councilmember Curren Price, chairman of the Economic Development Committee, told The Daily Signal the union exemption isn’t moving forward […]
By: imperfectamerica (Diary) | March 3rd, 2016 at 10:27 AM I’ve been listening to Rush Limbaugh since about 1992. Although he claims to be right 99.8% of the time or something like that, I find that I only agree with him about 97% of the time. I’ve listened with great interest as he has eloquently […]
By RUDY TAKALA (@RUDYTAKALA) • 4/12/16 1:17 PM The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency’s head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for “bad” reasons. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to […]
By: Robert Eno | April 16, 2016 This afternoon, in Casper, Wyoming, Ted Cruz swept the delegate selection at the Wyoming Republican convention. The delegate selection capped off a two month process in which delegates were selected in precinct caucuses across the state of Wyoming. Cruz won 14 delegates today, and notched his fifth state […]
Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force special ops unit responsible for managing terror missions worldwide, has once again defied UN sanctions and traveled to Moscow to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin. The covert trip was meant to coordinate the next steps in Syria, according to multiple intelligence sources who spoke with Fox News on Thursday. The planning comes […]
It may have taken five years, numerous regulatory updates, hundreds of legal battles, and two trips to the Supreme Court, but the government has finally admitted that, well, maybe it was wrong about the Health and Human Services mandate. In a brief filed at the Supreme Court this week in the Little Sisters case, the Obama […]
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., introduced a bill Thursday that would force the Obama administration to deposit $5 billion in the Treasury by 2017 as required under Obamacare’s reinsurance program or face steep cuts to its departmental management fund this year and next year. Called the “Taxpayers Before Insurers Act,” Sasse’s legislation codifies penalties for the […]
LONDON (AP) — A woman from Wales cannot name her baby daughter Cyanide, a British court ruled Thursday. The woman, whose name cannot be published for legal reasons, has infant twins and wants to name her son Preacher and her daughter Cyanide, saying the poison is a “lovely, pretty name” with positive associations because it […]
Ukraine’s parliament Thursday confirmed the appointment of Volodymr Groysman as premier in a 257 to 50 vote replacing Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The 38-year-old lawyer by training has gone from a small city mayor to Ukraine’s premier over a remarkable two-year span, during which he formed a close relationship with President Petro Poroshenko. Groysman is the son of […]
Don’t look now, but if you live in a state that stands up for the First Amendment, your favorite sport may be boycotting a town near you. In March, the National Football League threatened to pull the city of Atlanta from consideration as host of future Super Bowls if Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a religious liberty […]
