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CA Urges Citizens to 'Believe In Something Bigger': Powerball

CA Urges Citizens to 'Believe In Something Bigger': Powerball

California’s Lottery Commission has spent upwards of $8.4 million to promote the state’s newest initiative aimed at siphoning money from the poor: Powerball, which begins on Monday. Running commercials across radio and television urging citizens to “BELIEVE IN SOMETHING BIGGER”

Gov Worker Unemployment Rate Just 3.6%

Gov Worker Unemployment Rate Just 3.6%

The latest jobs numbers look pretty awful for most Americans – but they don’t look so bad for certain classes of Americans. Americans aged 25 and up with a college degree or more have a 3.8 percent unemployment rate. But

Obama Declares Easter Sunday 2013 'Cesar Chavez Day'

Obama Declares Easter Sunday 2013 'Cesar Chavez Day'

President Obama released a statement on Friday, March 29, proclaiming March 31st “Cesar Chavez Day, 2013”. March 31st marks the birthday of the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (formerly National Farm Workers Association), and also falls on Easter Sunday

Update: Google Sticks with Chavez Logo All Easter Day

Update: Google Sticks with Chavez Logo All Easter Day

Last night Pacific Time, Breitbart News reported that Google was featuring a Doodle of labor leader Cesar Chavez … on Easter. We also suggested that Google would “likely switch out to an Easter logo sometime today.” We were apparently in

How Google celebrates Easter

The Google search website uses “doodles” to re-decorate the company logo in honor of holidays and other major events.  I see they’ve chosen to commemorate Easter Sunday by celebrating the birth of labor leader Cesar Chavez.  There isn’t even a

Happy Easter: Google Celebrates Cesar Chavez's Birth

Happy Easter: Google Celebrates Cesar Chavez's Birth

March 31 marks the birthday of National Farm Workers Association (later United Farm Workers) co-founder Cesar Chavez. Chavez, who was trained by Saul Alinsky in the tactics of community organizing, has become a cult figure in California due to his

Report: Slate Economics Blogger Buys $1.2M Condo

Report: Slate Economics Blogger Buys $1.2M Condo

Nothing says wealth redistribution like purchasing a $1.2 million condo in the heart of Washington D.C. What else to make of reports from the Washingtonian that Slate economics and business blogger Matthew Yglesias, an ardent redistributionist, owns a three-bedroom, three-bath

America's Black Market May Be Exploding

America's Black Market May Be Exploding

According to Rick Newman of US News and World Report, America’s consumer confidence continues to rise, and their out of pocket spending has been solid. Yet credit card spending has not risen, and incomes have not risen either. So what’s

Palestinian Authority Newspaper Runs Pro-Hitler Op-Ed

Palestinian Authority Newspaper Runs Pro-Hitler Op-Ed

Israel’s supposed peace partners in the Palestinian Authority have been promoting Hitler again. The PA official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jedidah has run an op-ed suggesting that Nazism was an honorable ideology that would greatly have benefitted the planet had it prevailed

CA Approves $8.6B More Debt for High-Speed Rail

CA Approves $8.6B More Debt for High-Speed Rail

While California suffers through a nation-high 9.8 percent unemployment rate, a state budget debt of $34 billion, and $766 billion in unfunded liabilities, Democrat-appointed officials have okayed borrowing another $8.6 billion to begin work on the state’s vaunted high-speed rail.

Boehner: I 'Absolutely' Trust Obama

Boehner: I 'Absolutely' Trust Obama

On ABC’s This Week, hosted by Martha Raddatz, Speaker of the House John Boehner appeared to downplay the problem of national debt while loudly proclaiming his wonderful relationship with President Obama. “The president and I, as I have made very

Starbucks to Bloomberg on Sugar Drink Restrictions: Eat It

Starbucks to Bloomberg on Sugar Drink Restrictions: Eat It

When Americans think of rebel companies, they’re unlikely to think of Starbucks, the largest chain of coffee shops on the planet. Nonetheless, Starbucks is leading the rebellion against government overreach. On Monday, Starbucks announced that it would ignore all restrictions