
Having a successful business takes a lot of hard work, good market analysis, a better product or service than the competition, and advertising. Add in a bit of luck, and hopefully it will grow. If, however, you are a politically favored business—say solar—your story is different.
by Marita Noon4 Jan 2016, 8:27 AM PST0

Joel Kotkin, at Chapman University in Orange, California, explains how American elites are betraying their own nation’s core values, culture and future;
by Neil Munro28 Dec 2015, 2:23 PM PST0

After reaching a settlement with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office over the massive natural gas leak near Porter Ranch, Southern California Gas Company is now under court order to pay up to $8,500 a month per household to evacuate and
by Chriss W. Street27 Dec 2015, 5:19 PM PST0

Insider publications Politico and The Hill are hiding House Speaker Paul Ryan’s 2016’s disastrous report card, even four days after the Dec. 18 passage of the omnibus spending-and-tax plan.
by Neil Munro22 Dec 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

The web of potential conflicts of interest associated with Jerry Brown widened with news that the California governor’s sister is a paid board member of America’s largest natural gas utility–which is leaking 500,000 metric tons of CO2 a month.
by Chriss W. Street21 Dec 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

With a mere 68 seconds of almost incomprehensible Senate legalese, the top Republican and top Democratic leaders together blocked any debate and any public visibility into the myriad unpopular or popular, effective, dysfunctional or counterproductive measures in the $1.1 trillion 2016 omnibus spending plan.
by Neil Munro17 Dec 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

Politico reports that members of the supposedly anti-establishment House Freedom Caucus are offering excuses to shield House Speaker Paul Ryan from getting the blame for his closed-door, budget-busting, welfare-extending, refugee-boosting, illegal-immigrant-funding, job-outsourcing, regulation-preserving, $1.8 trillion spending-and-tax plan, which has thrilled Democrats and angered GOP voters.
by Neil Munro17 Dec 2015, 2:52 PM PST0

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates a quarter point for the first time in nearly a decade represents an important and welcome step in the direction of fiscal sanity. It’s a small step, but one that benefits ordinary Americans and will be disliked by many on Wall Street. And in the nation’s capitol.
by Peter Schweizer16 Dec 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Democratic leaders have hidden a bipartisan plan in the 2016 appropriations bill that could outsource blue-collar jobs held by as many as 200,000 Americans to lower-wage temporary foreign workers.
by Neil Munro16 Dec 2015, 1:11 PM PST0

A scandal involving Hillary Clinton’s favor for a buddy of her son-in-law at Goldman Sachs has sparked an official complaint and wide coverage in the establishment media.
by Patrick Howley15 Dec 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation that would cut the annual number of H-1B visas by 15,000 and allocate the visas to the highest-paying employers.
by Caroline May14 Dec 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

Congress may unveil the $1.1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill late Monday night.
by Michelle Fields14 Dec 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

Republican presidential frontrunner Marco Rubio picked up a major new donor. He also happens to be one of the most important money-men bankrolling Democratic Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
by Patrick Howley9 Dec 2015, 4:55 PM PST0

Today the federal government is largely dedicated to compelling men and women to subsidize ideas they disbelieve and abhor. The Founders thought the people should shape their government, but today the government spends billions shaping its people (and importing new ones, when the existing populace proves resistant to “change.”)
by John Hayward9 Dec 2015, 5:17 AM PST0

Several members of Congress are using the omnibus bill to stop the Department of Justice from delivering corporate donations to left-wing activist groups.
by Alex Swoyer7 Dec 2015, 6:08 PM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown insists that his request for the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to ascertain whether his 2,700-acre ranch lay atop an oil pool was motivated by a desire to obtain information about his ranch that he could store in a “glass case.”
by William Bigelow6 Dec 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses because it allow them to reduce wages, thus justifying their demand for cheaper H-2B visa workers. It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any H-2B workers who got a H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B workers, or 264,000 foreign workers in place of 264,000 Americans.
by Neil Munro5 Dec 2015, 6:55 AM PST0

Sen. Marco Rubio posed as a public champion for Americans during the secret 2013 talks over amnesty and cheap imported workers, but behind closed doors, he was was an ally and a patsy for Democratic leaders, according to a new article from the left-wing Mother Jones magazine.
by Neil Munro4 Dec 2015, 9:55 PM PST0

Monday Emanuel fired his police chief and appointed this new task force to investigate the practices of the Chicago Police Department. As for Deval Patrick, he now comes full circle. He began his career, such as it is, as what Tom Wolfe once described as a “mau-mauer,” a community organizer-type, an NAACP lawyer filing suits against the death penalty and prison conditions.
by Howie Carr2 Dec 2015, 11:50 AM PST0

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his Internet-billionaire friends really don’t want Donald Trump to be president because he will block their plans to increase immigration above the current inflow of 1 million people per year, according to a report from Politico.
by Neil Munro1 Dec 2015, 9:28 PM PST0

The Texas Ethics Commission may approve the acceptance of out-of-state donations for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal defense. A draft opinion was circulated in advance of a Texas Ethics Commission meeting to be held on Monday, November 30.
by Lana Shadwick30 Nov 2015, 8:03 AM PST0

Thanks in part to California Republican political consultant Rob Stutzman, Louisiana has elected a Democratic governor instead of a Republican one.
by William Bigelow25 Nov 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

Just as former Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) influenced who would replace him as House Speaker, sources in Butler County, Ohio – part of Boehner’s district – are telling Breitbart News that he’s trying to do the same with his congressional seat – even sending his staff to work for County Auditor Roger Reynold’s campaign for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District.
by Alex Swoyer23 Nov 2015, 3:30 PM PST0

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has been cleared in an ethics inquiry over personal gifts–but her financial management of her campaign is drawing serious criticism.
by William Bigelow22 Nov 2015, 11:38 AM PST0

On Friday, a SuperPAC tied to Ohio Governor John Kasich announced a new multi-million dollar effort to torpedo Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination. Trump’s continued dominance of national and state-level polling has vexed the GOP establishment and pushed it to near-panic as voting nears.
by Mike Flynn20 Nov 2015, 10:52 AM PST0