You know you’re running with the conservative pack when you choose to bash the TEA Party in the New York Times. And you’re prepared to do anything in your power — with all the party machinery at your disposal — to make sure you hold on to your seat at the trough. Because if you ever did, you’ve long since stopped worrying about the wishes of the electorate, trading that
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March 11, 2014
“Labor Force Participation Hits Record Low for Americans in Their 20s”
How’s that hopey-changey think workin’ out for ya’? The labor force participation rate in 2013 for Americans in their twenties hit the lowest level recorded since 1981, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started releasing employment data on people in the full age bracket of 20 through 29. The labor force participation rate for people ages 20 through 24—which BLS has been tracking since 1948—hit a 42-year low in 2013.
March 11, 2014
“Judge Jeanine answers the question: Did Obama lie to get into the White House?”
Or maybe a better title would be “Judge Jeanine bracing for future IRS investigations into her entire life”. But from what I can tell about her, she seems to be someone who keeps her receipts neatly organized. So she’s got that going for her.
March 11, 2014
“Poll: Obamacare Approval ‘Rebounds’ to…39 Percent”
Guess the number of those adversely impacted by it has been…delayed: The improvement is “slight,” they concede, but who’s excited for an Obamacare rebound? Not the American people, it turns out, despite CNN’s hopeful spin: According to the poll, 39% of Americans say they support the health care law, up from 35% in December, a record low in CNN polling. The uptick of four percentage points is within the survey’s
March 10, 2014
Gov. Jerry Brown to Californians: Your safety means nothing to me. [Darleen Click]
It’s bad enough when it appeared to be mere stupidity that Brown and his administration was just surprised that AB109/Prison Realignment has resulted in released felons re-offending … Unexpectedly! … but only malice can explain the blame of the rise in crime and, especially, second-strikers on county District Attorneys. San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos was on Los Angeles radio station KFI640 this afternoon and revealed that not only is
March 10, 2014
Radical Atheists demand 9/11 museum censored [Darleen Click]
If these anti-theist bigots are successful, what stops them from challenging any Holocaust museum displaying menorahs or any art museum displaying any number of religious objects? American Atheists on Thursday asked an appeals court in New York to remove the “miracle cross” from the 9/11 Museum, where it was placed two years ago. The steel beams were discovered in the devastation at Ground Zero. Eric Baxster of the Becket Fund
March 9, 2014
Update on Malaysian flight stolen passports [Darleen Click]
Exactly what good is a database if you never check it? Interpol says no country checked its database for information about stolen passports that were used to board the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared with 239 people on board Saturday less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing. In a sharply worded criticism of shortcomings of national passport controls, the Lyon, France-based international police
March 8, 2014
Stolen passports used on missing Malaysian jet [Darleen Click]
Does not bode well. Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirm that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand. […] A foreign ministry functionary, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Italian reports that Luigi Maraldi had reported his passport stolen last August. […] Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on
March 8, 2014
Unexpected! Confounding! [Darleen Click]
Proof of the death of basic reporter skills in modern J-school grads. From Ass.Press: California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of second-strikers. The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining Gov. Jerry Brown’s 3-year-old realignment law that restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons out
March 8, 2014
Molon Labe [Darleen Click]
******************* While speaking at a town hall meeting in Milford, Conn., on Wednesday, Gov. Dannel Malloy was interrupted by a heckler who advised him to read the Constitution sometime. The comment came when Gov. Malloy, a Democrat, was answering a question from a small business owner who said he is at a disadvantage to businesses in adjacent states that have a lower wage structure. “I think that’s not only a