By Breanna Deutsch Business groups are continuing their fight against minimum wage increases even as some Republicans are starting to stray. On Monday, former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd” that the mainstream Republican stance on the minimum wage ‘makes no sense,” referring to the GOP’s disapproval of legislation…
By Brendan Bordelon Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman warned that the federal government — including some officials in his office — may soon move to clamp down on conservative media. “I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,”…
Senator Rick Santorum made waves in a recent television appearance where he argued that we should raise the minimum wage. Conservatives and libertarians have argued against the minimum wage as a job killer for years, but Santorum apparently doesn’t agree with decades of free market research proving why it’s a job killer. So what do…
Don’t start none, won’t be none. The friends and family of two teenage robbers who were shot and killed inside a house they broke into are speaking up. “They didn’t deserve to get killed,” said the sister of Michael Sambrano, who was shot with his best friend by the homeowner they were robbing. Fingerprints from…
By Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency has not been firing employees for watching pornography and falsifying federal documents, according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. “How much pornography would it take for an EPA employee to lose his job?” Issa asked EPA officials, including the agency’s second-in-command, testifying before the House Oversight Committee. Issa…
Socialism is reaching its unavoidable conclusion in Venezuela where President Nicolas Maduro has begun introducing food rationing. A new food card will be issued to citizens called the “Secure Food Supply” card that is aimed at combatting hoarding and reselling. Shoppers apparently buy food which is heavily subsidized and resell it on the black market…
SALEM, OR – An incident is being investigated where a police officer in Oregon was harassing a man who was sitting down reading a book at a local transit mall. The officer grabs the man’s skateboard, throws it and tells him to put his hands behind his back. The man stands up and begins to…
The government of Nigeria has accepted aid from the United States to track down and rescue the more than 300 girls who have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. President Barack Obama said that the U.S. will “do everything we can” to help Nigeria. “Obviously, what’s happening is awful and, as a father of…
By Brendan Bordelon Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer dismissed the argument often deployed by global warming activists that skeptics should submit to the overwhelming agreement of climate change scientists, claiming he’s “not impressed by consensus.” Krauthammer appeared on Fox News’ “Special Report” Tuesday to discuss the White House’s alarmist new report on climate change. Host…
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By Brendan Bordelon Ever since an uprising in Ukraine’s capital deposed corrupt Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych — and especially through the unrest and annexations that followed — Vladmir Putin’s state-run media has consistently labelled their Western-backed opponents Neo-Nazi fascists seeking to bring back the scourge of racial divisions to eastern Europe. Which is what makes…