Politics

Mike Pompeo Blasts MLB for Boycotting Georgia

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) questioned Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to pull its All-Star game and Draft from Atlanta over the state’s election integrity law, inquiring why MLB continues to do business in Communist China which embraces a hierarchal electoral system of voting, barring any meaningful elections. 

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club, Friday, March 26, 2021, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Carney: Enhanced Jobless Benefits May Be a Drag on Retail Trade Hiring

Job openings in the retail trade sector rose in February, according to data from the Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. In January, employers posted 793,000 help wanted notices. These rose to 817,000 in February.

But the number of hires actually fell in February, the second straight monthly decline.

In other words, the number of people retail businesses want to hire is rising. But the number of workers accepting jobs in retail trade is falling.

P20210122AS-0140: President Joe Biden adds a log to the fire in the Oval Office of the White House Friday, Jan 22, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

GOP Group Presents Best Practices to Make it Easier to Vote and Harder to Cheat in U.S. Elections

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) this week released a comprehensive report on the best practices states can embrace to make it “easier to vote and harder to cheat” in U.S. elections. The release of the report comes as radical Democrats in Congress continue the “For the People Act,” which would strip states of their power to manage their own elections and implement basic election safeguards —  such as voter ID — effectively nationalizing the process.

Two-year-old Noah Davenport of Granby, Colorado, waits for his mother to cast her ballot at the Granby Town Hall on November 3, 2020. - Americans were voting on Tuesday under the shadow of a surging coronavirus pandemic to decide whether to reelect Republican Donald Trump, one of the most polarizing …