Team Obama calculates that its road to victory is paved with the votes of women, so the American people are now subject to a coordinated effort to cast GOP opposition to expanding government power as an assault on the weaker sex. But few women view public policy as a battle between the sexes. Women whose [...]
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How bad is the post-bubble economy? The economy is so bad that even con artists are giving up on real-estate scams, Tom Perez, a top Justice Department official, told an audience of progressives on Friday. “Equity stripping is largely a thing of the past because there’s no equity to strip,” said Perez. “Equity stripping” is [...]
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In the unlikely event that the Supreme Court allows ObamaCare’s individual mandate to survive, be prepared for an onslaught of new rules and regulations that force products upon us in order to advance the liberal agenda… 1. Broccoli Justice Antonin Scalia advanced the prospect of government-mandated broccoli during the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare oral arguments. “Everybody [...]
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will kick off the general election season Saturday with large rallies in two critical battlegrounds, Ohio and Virginia, intended to showcase the technological firepower of his re-election campaign. As he has been doing at fundraisers and other public appearances in recent weeks, Obama is expected to draw a [...]
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A funny thing happened upon release of the monthly unemployment statistics today. A few journalists in the mainstream media began to wake up. While there are still plenty of headlines floating around today that are some variation on “Unemployment Down Despite Lack of Jobs, Obama Yay,” a few journalists appear to have noticed the oxymoron [...]
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OSU’s Urban Meyer, Aaron Craft participate on National Day of Prayer At the call of a woman dressed in white, dozens of people knelt and bowed their heads yesterday on the stone tiles that pave the west side of the Statehouse Downtown. “All that can and all that will, let’s kneel before the Lord our [...]
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A new report prepared by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee suggests that companies would save billions of dollars by ending health insurance coverage for employees under Presidents Barack Obama’s health care reform law. Based on an analysis of health care data received from 71 of the America’s Fortune 100 companies, the report [...]
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It’s no April Fool’s joke — last month CNN delivered its lowest-rated month in total day in over a decade, since August 2001, the month before the September 11 attacks. The once-dominant cable news network posted decade-lows among both total viewers (357,000) and Adults 25-54 (108,000). Versus April last year, CNN was down 21% in [...]
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The Obama camp can’t stop clucking about how he saved GM and the car industry. But if the GM bailout is such a success story, why can’t it pay back its debt to taxpayers? The president’s new campaign video narrated by actor Tom Hanks claims GM has “repaid” its loans. But in a revelation by [...]
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The new USC study pointing to a much-slower rate of population growth in California has been greeted by demographers and urban planners as good news, in that it supposedly gives our state’s leaders a little breathing room to better plan for the future. The rate of growth has slowed to about 1 percent a year, [...]
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or the past twelve years, the McMillan companies have been banking with Bank of America. Kelly McMillan, operations director told The Daily Caller that the company has never bounced a check or been late on a payment. Their record with the bank has been exemplary. Last week, Bank of America business banking senior vice president Ray Fox [...]
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the threat to his state’s future that is posed by mounting pension and retiree health-care bills for government workers. Unless Illinois enacts reform quickly, he said, the costs of these programs will force taxes so high that, “You won’t recruit a business, you won’t recruit [...]
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Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms. Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family [...]
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An employer who discriminates against an employee or applicant on the basis of the person’s gender identity is violating the prohibition on sex discrimination contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to an opinion issued on April 20 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The opinion, experts say, could [...]
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A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on [...]
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