ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a west Alabama swamp in early November amid a string of North American oil train crashes. So why is dark, smelly crude oil still oozing into the water four months […]
(CNSNews.com) – “Today I’m going to use my pen to give more Americans the chance to earn the overtime pay that they deserve,” President Obama told a gathering at the White House on Thursday. To illustrate why overtime pay is so important, he singled out Nancy Minor who works at an oil refinery in Pennsylvania. […]
Newscom It may seem a bit crazy to pour huge amounts of cash into lobbying efforts. But if you can spend a few hundred thousand dollars and make a billion, it’s probably worth the risk. As one savvy investor is well aware, it’s unusual to make that sort of return on investment by building factories […]
By Larry Elder March 13, 2014 12:23 pm When blacks gave 80 percent of their vote to the Democratic Party in 1964, black activist Malcolm X called them “political chumps.” White voters, X said, “are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close they have to go back and count […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration wants more women to work outside the home, and it is examining ways to make that happen. On June 23, the White House will host a Working Families Summit “to talk about how we can make sure the economy’s working as well as it can for American families,” Betsey Stevenson, […]
Newscom Washington DC is abuzz now that Senators Tim Johnson (D–S.D.) and Mike Crapo (R–Idaho) have completed a bill to finally eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D–N.Y.) statement is completely correct in that “if there was ever a bill where the devil was in the details, this is it.” As […]
Check out Heritage’s infographic to see just a few of the disturbing things they found in Obama’s 2015 Budget.
Newscom In the 37th significant change to the Affordable Care Act since its passage nearly four years ago, the Obama administration announced yesterday that insurers can wait until 2016 to cancel plans that do not meet Obamacare’s insurance requirements. According to The Hill, which first reported the potential delay, the move will protect vulnerable Democrats […]
International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials beat the U.S. to the punch this week, arriving to discuss economic aid to Ukraine one day earlier than U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. While Kerry promised $1 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S., the IMF is working on a $15 billion loan request from the Ukrainian government […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Justice Department is planning to spend $750,000 to train “medium to high-risk” incarcerated adults and juveniles in the technology field. According to the grant solicitation, “the target population must include medium to high-risk offenders as identified using a validated assessment tool. ‘High-risk offenders’ are defined as individuals that score moderate to high […]
