President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering a rule that would force private businesses to turn over their workers’ personal information — such as phone numbers, email addresses, and work schedules — to union organizers. While this rule would be
A retired Air Force Major is suing the government of Guam and the Guam Election Commission for denying his right to participate in a vote regarding the territory’s future political status because of his race. Arnold “Dave” Davis, who is
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio joined many Republicans in distancing himself from Mitt Romney’s remarks to donors that President Barack Obama won the 2012 election by doling out “gifts” to minorities and young voters. Rubio, whose top aides used to work
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Mitt Romney was “absolutely wrong” in his analysis of why Barack Obama won reelection. Jindal’s statement was made in response to Mitt Romney’s comments on Wednesday that President Barack Obama won reelection by offering minorities
President Barack Obama on Wednesday again said he would not sign any agreement that does not raise the top tax rate, but Republicans in the House steadfastly stood in opposition to raising tax rates on those making over $250,000 in
Pro-amnesty organizations pounced on President Barack Obama’s promise of giving illegal immigrants a “pathway for legal status,” arguing those words were not clear enough to them about his intentions. When Obama used the phrase “legal status” instead of “citizenship” during his press
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka believes the so-called fiscal cliff is just a “manufactured crisis” that does not really exist. “There is no fiscal cliff!” Trumka will say in a Washington, D.C. speech with liberal leaders and groups on Thursday. “What
A new poverty index in the U.S. Census found 28% of Hispanics were living in poverty. During the 2012 election, a staggering 71% of Latinos voted for President Barack Obama even though his policies and economy actually increased the poverty
Union workers may permanently kill off the iconic Twinkie. Hostess Brands, Inc., the company that makes Twinkies, announced on Wednesday that it will ask a bankruptcy judge to allow it to shut down and sell off its assets as soon
Twelve prominent CEOs, many of whom have warned against the dangers of raising taxes on those making over $250,000 and creating more economic uncertainty, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to discuss the looming fiscal cliff. There were no
On Tuesday, Grover Norquist walked back his comments about a possible carbon tax swap (which would reduce income taxes while taxing carbon emissions), one day after the staunch anti-tax advocate suggested it would not violate his famed Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Norquist
Republican Carlos Gutierrez, the Secretary of Commerce for George W. Bush’s second term, said English should not be the official language of the U.S. government on Sunday. Speaking on a panel on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gutierrez said Republicans should
On Tuesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Republicans needed to be smarter and less vulnerable to being stereotyped as the party that simply protects the interests of the rich while rejecting identity politics that pander to minority interest groups. “We’ve
On Tuesday, Al Gore again called for a “cap and trade” system by warning Americans the country faces a “climate cliff” in addition to a “fiscal cliff.” “It will be difficult for sure but we can back away from the
On Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined other Republican senators in calling for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus to testify before Congress about the terrorists attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya that
The Institute for Energy Research released a report on Tuesday that debunked the benefits of “carbon tax swaps” or cap-and-trade policies, which some Republicans like Grover Norquist had suggested should be on the table during budget negotiations. The report noted cap-and-trade schemes
Defiant and reflective, 80-year-old Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News after winning re-election that he has a message for President Barack Obama: granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unfair to legal immigrants. And Arpaio would like to
Republicans and Democrats may end some of the the oil industry’s biggest tax breaks during the fiscal cliff negotiations in Congress. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has indicated oil industry tax breaks will be on the table during the upcoming
On Monday, The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report that found the United States could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by 2017. In its annual forecast, the IEA concluded since “the U.S. is drilling more
Princeton African-American studies professor and provocateur Cornel West accused President Barack Obama of being a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” last Friday on a progressive television program. In an interview on the liberal “Democracy Now” program, West, with his shocking comments, was essentially saying Obama,
Moody’s, a prominent ratings agency, predicted President Barack Obama would “reverse course” and approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas during his second term. “We believe the White House will reverse course and approve the Keystone XL pipeline,
FBI agents raided the Dilworth, North Carolina home of Paula Broadwell, the woman accused of having an affair with former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus Monday night. Petraeus resigned last Friday, citing his infidelity. Local stations WSOC, WCNC, and WBTV reported the
Massachusetts Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, in her first press conference after defeating Sen. Scott Brown, was noticeably curt with reporters asking about her campaign and the issues voters elected her to solve. When reporters asked her about the fiscal cliff, Warren could only
An FBI employee tipped off House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in October about former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, which eventually led to Petraeus’s resignation last Friday. Cantor spokesperson Doug Heye confirmed on Monday the
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday said California would start a tax-increase wave across the nation, but recent history suggests California’s tax increases will only accelerate the number of people who will leave California to other states with better tax
