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Jerry Brown Fights Unions on Furloughs

Even union lackey California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) can’t handle the unions anymore. Brown has appealed a lawsuit that would pay state unions some $12 million because Brown furloughed them thanks to the $16 billion state debt. Last summer, an

Jerry Brown Fights Unions on Furloughs

California: Number of College Grads Working As Waiters Doubles

In California, it’s long been the joke that prospective actresses come to the state to become waitresses. Now, thanks to the Democrat-created economy, so do college graduates. The newest census shows that between 2006 and 2011, the number of college

California: Number of College Grads Working As Waiters Doubles

Happy Thanksgiving: Unions Shut Down Traffic to LAX

Ready to fly out of Los Angeles today to get to your family before Thanksgiving? Not so fast. Los Angeles’ labor unions have decided to protest on Thanksgiving Eve – one of the busiest travel days of the year –

Happy Thanksgiving: Unions Shut Down Traffic to LAX

PETA: Turkeys Are Like Blacks, Women, Gays

People for the Ethic Treatment of Animals (PETA), which is famous for its shock tactics and its idiotic equation of animals to humans (most shamefully, in its “Holocaust On Your Plate” campaign), has now carried its message to the White

PETA: Turkeys Are Like Blacks, Women, Gays

McCain 'Frustrated' by Reports DNI Altered Benghazi Talking Points

Today, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released a statement about reports suggesting that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had removed references to al Qaeda from talking points given to UN Ambassador Susan Rice about the terrorist attack in

McCain 'Frustrated' by Reports DNI Altered Benghazi Talking Points

Famed Economist: US GDP Growth Will Never Recover

World famous investor Jeremy Grantham has released his forecast for the American economic future – and if he’s right, we’d all better pack up and head for New Zealand. According to Grantham, an annual GDP growth rate of 3% —

Famed Economist: US GDP Growth Will Never Recover

Levin Smacks Kristol on Tax Liberalism

Yesterday, radio host Mark Levin blistered Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol over Kristol’s repeated insistence that the Tea Party doesn’t care if President Obama raises taxes on those earning more than $200,000 per year. Kristol said that the Tea Party

Levin Smacks Kristol on Tax Liberalism

News Corp Plans ESPN Rival

Get ready, ESPN: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is coming after you. Today, News Corp announced that it would buy a 49 percent stake in the Yankees’ YES Network. The deal also includes an option to buy up to 80 percent

News Corp Plans ESPN Rival

Happy Thanksgiving: Food Pantries Overwhelmed Thanks to Obama Economy

President Obama’s most solid strongholds are suffering from economic disaster under his presidency, according to new reports. A University of Michigan study shows that 80 percent of people in southeast Michigan have been blasted by financial problems between 2007 and

Happy Thanksgiving: Food Pantries Overwhelmed Thanks to Obama Economy

Hamas Says Ceasefire In Place, Israel Denies

Just a day after Hamas dared Israel to send a ground attack into the Gaza Strip, Hamas has said that Egypt had put together a ceasefire deal set to declare at 9:00 p.m. Israel time. Hamas has been hurt militarily

Hamas Says Ceasefire In Place, Israel Denies

Iran Shipping More Weapons to Gaza

According to Iran, Gaza’s terrorists need more weaponry with which to fight Israel. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast won’t say whether Iran is already shipping heavy weaponry to Gaza.  The current Hamas attacks on Israel have brought to the

Iran Shipping More Weapons to Gaza

Israel: Peace by Thursday, or Ground Assault on Gaza

Israel has now set a Thursday deadline for the Egypt-brokered talks; if by that point no peace has been brokered, Israel’s ground troops are set to assault the Gaza Strip. “There is still no breakthrough and Egypt is working to

Israel: Peace by Thursday, or Ground Assault on Gaza

Obama in Burma: 'I Wish I Could… Impose My Will on Congress'

Today, President Obama spoke in Burma – or as he termed it, Myanmar, despite official US practice to call the country Burma – and repeatedly botched the name of the country’s famed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, instead calling

Obama in Burma: 'I Wish I Could… Impose My Will on Congress'

Palestinians Throwing Rocks at Israelis in West Bank

Violence is spreading from the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, in the aftermath of a Fatah-Hamas deal that brings all Palestinians around desire for the destruction of the State of Israel. Today, Arabs

Palestinians Throwing Rocks at Israelis in West Bank

Just 41% of Dems Think Israel's Gaza Action Justified

While a vast majority of Americans side with Israel in their current conflict with Hamas, only 41% of Democrats do, according to a new CNN poll today. That poll shows that 57% of Americans believe Israel is right to take

Just 41% of Dems Think Israel's Gaza Action Justified

State Dept Ready to End Diplomatic Isolation of Hamas

On Friday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland announced that it was suddenly fine for foreign dignitaries to visit the terrorist Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Why? Because now that Hamas was firing hundreds of rockets on Israel, those dignitaries

State Dept Ready to End Diplomatic Isolation of Hamas

Obama Undercuts Israel War Effort

Today, the Jerusalem Post reports that Israel has agreed to postpone any ground invasion of the Hamas-held Gaza Strip until cease-fire efforts can proceed further. This is a ground shift in Israeli policy with regard to Hamas; Israel has long

Obama Undercuts Israel War Effort

Obama: We 'Need a Lot of Prayer' On Budget

Today while touring the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Thailand along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama commented that any budget deal would require prayer. “We’re working on this budget,” he told a monk, “we’re going to need

Obama: We 'Need a Lot of Prayer' On Budget

Anonymous Launches Cyberwar Against Israel

Internet leftist terrorists Anonymous have begun posting personal information on top-ranking Israeli officials online. Using Anonpaste.me to send a message to the Israeli government, Anonymous wrote, “It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings

Anonymous Launches Cyberwar Against Israel

Rubio Hits Fundraising Records in Iowa

Rising Republican star and widely-rumored potential 2016 presidential candidate Senator Marco Rubio (FL) has made his first post-election trip to Iowa, where he delivered a speech at the birthday party of Governor Terry Brandstad. The speech was red meat conservatism

Rubio Hits Fundraising Records in Iowa

Report: Hamas Preparing Chemical Weapons

According to Britain’s Sunday Times, Israeli special forces are already on the ground in Gaza seeking out rockets and weapons for targeting. The Times is also reporting that Hamas may place chemical weapons on its long-range missiles. “Hamas might go

Report: Hamas Preparing Chemical Weapons

Britain: No Sympathy for Israeli Ground Assault

British Foreign Secretary William Hague today announced his country’s as-expected opposition to Israel defending herself from rocket attacks from Gaza. He said that an Israeli ground operation would be “much more difficult to restrict and avoid civilian casualties during a

Britain: No Sympathy for Israeli Ground Assault

Israeli Defense Minister: Ground Assault Imminent

Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak announced this morning that Israel will soon begin a ground assault on Hamas-occupied Gaza. “The forces are ready. Everything is prepared, there will be food for everyone, excellent equipment, trained soldiers, the reserves are

Israeli Defense Minister: Ground Assault Imminent

Liberal IKEA Announces 'Regret' For Using Slave Labor

Ikea, which has become world famous not only for its furniture but for its sanctimonious leftism, has announced “regret” for using East German slave labor to make its product during the cold war. According to the Associated Press, Ikea allowed

Liberal IKEA Announces 'Regret' For Using Slave Labor

Report: Israel Holding Off Ground Offensive At Obama's Behest

American Friends of Likud reported, “According to sources inside the White House, in a private briefing to President Obama on Fri night, PM Netanyahu has said that a ground offensive would be held off for now.” Early this morning, Prime

Report: Israel Holding Off Ground Offensive At Obama's Behest

Sources: Obama Knew Benghazi Was Terrorism Before Deploying Rice

According to the Washington Guardian, it wasn’t just CIA Director David Petraeus who knew that the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi were terrorism linked with al Qaeda. It was the White House. And they knew it well in

Sources: Obama Knew Benghazi Was Terrorism Before Deploying Rice

Trumka Bashes Hostess As 'Bain-Style Wall Street Vultures'

President Obama’s strongest union backer, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, has injected himself into the Hostess bankruptcy, blaming capitalism for the shutdown of Hostess rather than an intransigent union. Today, he issued this statement: What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a

Trumka Bashes Hostess As 'Bain-Style Wall Street Vultures'

Fiscal Cliff Apathy: Dems Shut Down Senate For Thanksgiving

While Barack Obama pretends to care about the fiscal cliff – in reality, he’s all to happy to watch Americans’ tax rates rise across the board, and to cut spending on the military dramatically, even if it means economic failure

Fiscal Cliff Apathy: Dems Shut Down Senate For Thanksgiving

Republican Consultant: Romney GOTV Effort in Virginia 'Worthless'

Republican consultant and senior adviser to failed GOP Senate candidate George Allen of Virginia Boyd Marcus has come out firing today, accusing the Romney campaign of grassroots incompetence in the state. The get out the vote effort, he said, was

Republican Consultant: Romney GOTV Effort in Virginia 'Worthless'

Conservatives Launch Papa John's Appreciation Day

Only the left would react to a business going under by boycotting it. But that’s precisely what the left has tried with Papa John’s, the pizza company whose CEO had the temerity to state that Obamacare costs would necessarily be

Conservatives Launch Papa John's Appreciation Day

Obama Re-Election Prompts Middle East War

It is impossible not to notice the timing of this week’s incipient Middle East regional war. It comes approximately one week after Barack Obama was re-elected to the presidency. Last Tuesday, Obama won re-election; four days later, Hamas began firing

Obama Re-Election Prompts Middle East War

Pro-Hamas Tel Aviv Rally Broken Up By Hamas Rocket

Today, a hard left-wing pro-Hamas rally took place in Tel Aviv. Attendees included Elizabeth Tsurkov of the Hotline for Migrant Workers. Useful idiot Tsurkov also writes for the anti-Israel rag 972mag.com. She tweeted: The rally apparently broke up shortly thereafter,

Pro-Hamas Tel Aviv Rally Broken Up By Hamas Rocket

Hamas Victims Include Pregnant Chabad Mumbai Emissary

Today, the names of the three Jews murdered by Hamas via rocket attack in Kiryat Malachi were released by the government of Israel. One of them was 26-year-old Mirah Scharf, a Chabad emissary to Mumbai, India, visiting Israel for the

Hamas Victims Include Pregnant Chabad Mumbai Emissary

Federalist Society Launches Annual Conference Today

Beginning today and extending through November 17, the Federalist Society will be holding its annual National Lawyers Convention. The Federalist Society is most famous as the largest constitutionalist legal organization in the United States; it was the breeding ground for

Federalist Society Launches Annual Conference Today

Egyptian Prime Minister Heads to Gaza to Show Solidarity with Hamas

Today, as Hamas continued to fire rockets on Israeli civilians while ensconced among Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Prime Minister Hesham Kandil to travel to Gaza in a show of solidarity with Hamas. Kandil

Egyptian Prime Minister Heads to Gaza to Show Solidarity with Hamas