What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United States. The Export-Import Bank does both. It loans money to foreign companies and governments to buy products from politically favored American companies. Hard-working Americans are backing these loans. This map […]
(Canada Free Press) An interesting news item caught my attention a couple of weeks back. Apparently the Canadian middle class has surpassed the American middle class in economic standing. According to a NY Times analysis, after-tax income of middle class Canadians has now surpassed that of America’s middle class, which purportedly makes Canada’s middle class […]
(CNSNews.com) – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, says young people who are in the commonwealth illegally may qualify for in-state tuition. “These ‘DREAMers’ are already Virginians in some very important ways,” Herring told the presidents of Virginia’s public colleges and universities on Tuesday. “In most cases they were raised here, they graduated from […]
Half the residents of Illinois (50%), Connecticut (49%) and Maryland (47%) would flee their state if they had the chance, a new Gallup Poll show. Residents of these states are also the most likely to leave, and Gallup attributes three factors: State taxes State Government Quality of Life “Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, […]
Kansas is 24th state to adopt private school choice. (Photo: Getty Images) School choice is blossoming in the Sunflower State this spring. Last week, Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed into law Kansas’ first school choice scholarship program—making it the 24th state to adopt private school choice. Corporations that contribute to scholarship-granting organizations (which provide vouchers […]
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Despite the unemployment rate plummeting, more than 92 million Americans remain out of the labor force. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people […]
Another Mexican military incursion into the United States occurred near San Diego this month and the Obama administration is trying to cover it up, though officials at one Homeland Security agency have come forward with the startling details. The infiltration took place a few weeks ago at a cross-border drug tunnel recently discovered by federal […]
President Obama walks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Pete Souza) Americans will get the answers they deserve to questions surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack through creation of a special committee empowered to dig deep into the subject, House Speaker John Boehner announced today. In a formal statement, Boehner said: The administration’s withholding of […]
by COLIN FLAHERTY This week near Dover, Delaware, a viral video appears to show another instance of black-on-white violence among high school students. The shaky cell phone video shows a group of black teenage boys punching, knocking down, and kicking a white teenage boy, leaving him dazed and confused on the school bus floor. [youtube […]
If you thought the Democrat Party couldn’t sink any lower, check out their latest power grab, from the Boston Herald: U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey wants the government to study and recommend ways to stop the Internet, TV and radio from “encouraging hate crimes,” but First Amendment advocates say the bill is a menace to […]
