While Our Government Debates Raising Minimum Wage, China Reaches the Moon

National Post – China has succeeded in landing a craft on the moon, pulling off the first soft landing of a space vehicle in almost 40 years. The U.S., meanwhile has launched into a debate over minimum wages, and whether raising the current minimum from $7.25 would damage the recovery now gathering speed. The U.S. […]

Tech Job Shortage Narrative Skillfully Packaged and Promoted

Bemidji Pioneer – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg et al., promote the idea that America has a skills shortage crisis that can be resolved through importing millions of foreign-born workers. Yet the evidence proves that there’re millions of talented, eager and willing Americans in virtually every field. Several non-partisan sources confirm the ample supply of U.S. labor. […]

Senate Democrats Put Obama Crony in Charge of DHS

Town Hall – Senate Democrats voted 57-37 to end debate on the nomination of Jeh Johnson to head DHS. That’s three votes short of the traditional 60-vote filibuster threshold that Reid nuked last month. Johnson went on to win his appointment by a 78-16 margin. News coverage instead stresses that Johnson is the “first African-American” […]

Loophole Allows Illegal Immigrants to Claim Tax Credits That Harms Vet Benefits

The Blaze – Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, has put forward a budget amendment to avert proposed cuts to veterans’ benefits by closing a loophole that allows illegal immigrants to collect child tax credits. Even though federal law bars illegal immigrants from collecting tax benefits like the earned […]

IRS Using Google Maps to Spy on Taxpayers

Daily-Caller – Agents from the Internal Revenue Service are using Google Maps as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations. A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the […]

Two Men Speak Out Against Obamacare, Receive IRS Notices on Same Day

Washington Times – When conservative organizations claimed that they were targeted by the IRS, the one-third or so of the nation who still trust this president may actually question whether the dots connect to prove it. But what if two people speak out against Obamacare, working together publicly on an Obamacare-related problem, and then receive […]