Washington Examiner: Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a bill to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour, arguing that the central legislation in the Democrats’ “fair shot” agenda would kill jobs and hurt the economy. The vote was 54-42, falling short of the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster. The debate started just hours after the Commerce Department reported the U.S. economy barely grew at

Parsing the numbers, it sure looks like it.  But, like, free contraceptives!  And abortion on demand in all circumstances! Because punishment.   And freedom!  CNS: If you simultaneously accept estimates published by the Census Bureau and the Chief Actuary of Social Security, then illegal aliens who misused Social Security numbers to work illegally in the United States in 2010 earned more on average than American women did. The Office of the

What’s that old line about liberals turning conservative after being mugged by reality? Newsmax: Fox News contributor Juan Williams, who recently declared that America should be “gun-free,” has revealed that after his wife was recently robbed of her car she said, “I wish I had a gun.” Williams told “The Lars Larson Show” on Monday that the robbery occurred when his wife, Delise, “went to the gas station” to fill

And though his straight-talking mustache, Regis, remained relatively quiet during this particular interview, it was evident, to the careful observer (and those who know Regis well) that he was all but itching to throw down a few fingers of Scotch, seek John Kerry out, and bitch slap the WASP right out of him. Ted Cruz — who more and more speaks for the conservative base and remaining Reaganites — has

I am the 80 percent! CNS News: In 20 percent of American families in 2013, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), not one member of the family worked. A family, as defined by the BLS, is a group of two or more people who live together and who are related by birth, adoption or marriage. In 2013, there were 80,445,000 families in the United

Now that lefty-loving billionaire (but recently registered Republican, so we should ignore that all his contributions went to leftwing politicians) 1%-er and Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling, who evidently has a long-time reputation for making racist comments, has become the latest poster-child for identity politics OUTRAGE!, do you think the NAACP, whose membership asserts itself as keenly aware of any and all potential racialist slights, will vanish any and all evidence

Formerly, they were threatened by disappearing ice. It’s all part of the unified theory of global climate change: all weather is harmful to something, and when it isn’t, that’s just the weather telling denialist lies. Honestly. If even those environmental stewards with their hearts in the right place aren’t embarrassed by the refusal of supposed climate scientist alarmists to debate the data — not their own faulty modeling — on

I’ve recommended Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner’s Reckless Endangerment on a number of occasions. Let me take this opportunity to do so again. It consistently amazes me how the American people re-elect to office the very kinds of people who cause them so much harm, be it to liberty or property. Maybe we’re a nation of masochists. Or maybe we’ve just be successfully dumbed down to the point of irretrievability.

I don’t know how many times I have to repeat this line before it finally takes hold, but we live in time when it is the ruling class vs. the rest of us — from the open mockery by a sitting President of “teabaggers,” to a governmental attack on private citizens (Limbaugh, Bundy, the Koch brothers), to the declared war establishment Republicans, who can never bring themselves to actively reject

Back in olden times, many of you will recall, there was a great deal of sturm und drang over Bush the Younger’s use of executive orders and signing statements from the left, and I agreed in part that these short-circuitings of the legislative process in the name of efficiency set bad precedents. At the time, these abuses of process triggered much hyperventilating from leftists, who warned of the rise of