NJ’s Christie Vetoes Discriminatory Union PLA Bill

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 15th at 10:45 PM  | 

The long wait to find out whether New Jersey’s governor Chris Christie would veto a union-backed bill that would to discriminate against union-free construction workers is over.

On Monday, Christie vetoed legislation that was sponsored by State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a union organizer, that would have provided for an expansion of so-called union project labor agreements to include Hurricane Sandy cleanup and reconstruction.

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Terror in Boston

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 15th at 05:55 PM  | 

Early reports are often misleading, and there will be time enough for politics when the facts are in. But we know this much, so far: there were multiple explosions around the finish line of today’s Boston Marathon, there are a number of people dead and many horrible injuries, and authorities confirm there were multiple bombs. The Marathon is a huge target – a ton of | Read More »

Director Of MO Department Of Revenue Resigns In Wake Of CCW Scandal

By: Dana Loesch (Diary)  |  April 15th at 03:08 PM  | 

Missouri for the past month has dealt with a massive scandal: the illegal surrender of its full conceal-carry permit list to the federal government based on the bogus premise of an “investigation” which magically disappeared after the list was received. Now the head of one of the departments in the middle of the scandal has resigned: Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that Missouri Department of Revenue | Read More »

Every day is Tax Day

By: John Hayward  |  April 15th at 02:59 PM  | 

April 15 is upon us: Tax Day, our national day of introspection about the burden of government.  It has been said that if elections were held right after Tax Day, we wouldn’t be in this economy-crushing fiscal mess. But is that really true any more?  Half of us aren’t paying any taxes on April 15.  Many Americans receive a tax refund, which they understandably but | Read More »

After The Gold Rush

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 15th at 02:00 PM  | 

If I were an underemployed and thoroughly self-entitled crank, I could write three Volumes of horrendously lugubrious prose and describe it as my theory of life, the universe and everything.* When not earnestly engaged with inseminating his domestic help, an underemployed and thoroughly self-entitled crank named Karl Marx did exactly that. He called this Volumes I – III of Kapital. Natter on for over 2,000 pages, and even a guy like Marx will bury an occasional intellectual ruby beneath the copious mounds of pony-poop.

In light of the “Gold-Apocalypse” occurring today on Wall Street, Marx’s plaint regarding Commodity Fetishism may well be worth donning a protective mask and digging out. It could as an explanation for why my full-bodied monies recovered from the 16th Century Spanish Galion just aren’t all that valuable any more.**

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Mother Jones’ Corn Admits Dems Knew About McConnell Tape

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 15th at 12:37 PM  | 

Promoted from diaries. I previously wrote in PolicyMic that the McConnell bugging story could’ve been a coordinated “hit” by the institutional left. Both Mother Jones and CREW (Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington), who filed an ethics complaint against McConnell over this development, attended the same conference of progressive organizations last December that specifically targeted the Kentucky Senator for the 2014 elections. It was | Read More »

Ohio Medicaid Expansion Myths vs. Math

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  April 15th at 12:00 PM  | 

Ohio’s debate over the Obamacare Medicaid expansion has been distorted by a media eager to carry water for bigger government, unquestioningly repeating talking points that collapse under any amount of scrutiny. Please share this video to help Media Trackers counter the fact that Ohio’s major newspapers have endorsed the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, marginalized its opponents, and printed puff piece after puff piece about health industry lobbyists, | Read More »

Gun Advocate Alan Gottlieb Supports Toomey-Manchin Based on Bad Information [updated]

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 15th at 10:33 AM  | 

A prominent gun rights activist and board member of the American Conservative Union said this weekend he supports the Manchin-Toomey compromise, even telling associates that he believed “the gun grabbers have stepped into our trap.” Alan Gottlieb, the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and a power player within the conservative ACU, emailed nearly four dozen gun activists | Read More »

Obama’s Plan Hatched at Columbia University

By: Wayne Allyn Root  |  April 15th at 10:27 AM  | 

Regnery Publishing, our sister company in Eagle Publishing, Inc. is publishing Wayne Allen Root’s newest book, The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon. We are cross posting this piece from Human Events written by Mr. Root. You can order the book here. – Erick President Obama and I were college classmate at Columbia University, class of ’83. I know | Read More »

Gold Plunges and Housing Prices Rise

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  April 15th at 10:02 AM  | 

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the dropping price of gold, the Dish bid for Sprint, and the potential problems with the rise of housing prices.

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They Lied to us Then About Immigration; They are Lying Now

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 15th at 06:41 AM  | 

“First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same … Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset … Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived | Read More »

Salon’s sad attempt at smearing the Right wrt Kermit Gosnell.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 14th at 10:47 PM  | 

Now, I understand that this Alex Seitz-Wald fellow wishes to a) distract and b) infuriate the Right by repeating the bald-faced lie that conservatives only covered the Kermit Gosnell stories in the last week or so (and it is a bald-faced lie).  I will therefore trashcan my previous remarks and thus merely note that if Salon is going to talk about how conservatives supposedly did or | Read More »

Ted Cruz reaches out to grieving daughter of Sandy Hook victim.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 14th at 01:00 PM  | 

(Via Hot Air) A couple points about this… The daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal who died in the mass killing in December could not join others from her community this week to lobby for gun control. So she turned to Twitter to reach out to the 15 senators who indicated they would engage in a filibuster to block legislation on gun control. | Read More »

So, there was a riot at Gitmo.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 13th at 11:00 PM  | 

Good luck finding it leading the news cycle anywhere except on Drudge at the moment, though. Anyway, would somebody – and by somebody I mean “President Barack Obama” – care to explain to me, not to mention the American people, just how this was allowed to occur? The violence erupted during an early morning raid that military officials said was necessary because prisoners had covered | Read More »

Despite Veto Threat, U.S. House Votes To Freeze Obama’s Constitutionally-Challenged NLRB

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 13th at 10:05 PM  | 

Despite the threat of a Presidential veto, on Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act to halt the National Labor Relations Board from issuing decisions or rulings until the U.S. Supreme Court can rule on the NLRB’s legitimacy or nominees are properly confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

The bill was drafted in an effort to rein in the labor relations chaos created when Obama’s ‘recess’ appointees to the National Labor Relations Board were found to be unconstitutionally appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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