By Howard Blume  /  LA Times A new political action committee has formed to influence the outcome of Los Angeles school board races, filling a gap created when a group of civic leaders, which includes former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, decided to sit out next month’s key upcoming election. The new organization, Great Public Schools Los Angeles Political Action Committee, joins […]

From the Jester’s Courtroom A New York baseball fan is suing ESPN after allegedly being mocked by two of its announcers for snoozing in Yankee Stadium during the April 13 night game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Andrew Rector, who admits to catching a few zzzzs during the game, has filed a $10 million defamation suit against […]

BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU — If residents of Hawaii are going to have affordable electricity, the state needs to break up Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., the parent of the Hawaiian Electric Co., a former lawmaker contends. A study of electric rates produced by WalletHub, Most & Least Energy Expensive States, puts the unit price of electricity in Hawaii at  38.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, […]

By Michael W. Chapman (CNSNews.com) – Duck Dynasty’s Missy Robertson said she “definitely recommends” chastity before marriage and added that she and her husband, Jase Robertson, maintained their virginity until their wedding night and, in this way, they “have no baggage, we have no diseases,” and “God recommended” such self-discipline for couples “many, many moons ago.” Missy Robertson also said […]

By Paul Bedard  /  Washington Examiner When President Obama wraps up his 16-day summer break next month on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., he will have taken all or part of 141 days of vacation, time split between summers on the island, winters in his native Hawaii and birthday weekends at his Chicago home. Obama has been criticized for taking costly and […]

Reform: Probably hoping no one would notice, regulators late last week exempted from ObamaCare five U.S. territories where it was failing. Will they do the same once it’s obvious ObamaCare is failing everywhere else? When the geniuses in Congress and the White House were writing the ObamaCare legislation, they made a slight mistake. The law imposed ObamaCare’s guaranteed issue and […]

By Susan Ferrechio  / Washington Examiner The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform panel is objecting to a plan to call the Internal Revenue Service commissioner to testify for a third time in a matter of weeks, calling it “public harassment of an agency head.” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sent a letter Monday to Chairman Darrell Issa, […]

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Herald Review Taxpayers in Illinois pay an additional $1,038 per person in taxes because of the state’s corruption, according to a recent study by two university professors. The cost of corruption, however, is much higher than that. John Mikesell, from Indiana University and Cheol Liu, from the City University of Hong Kong, determined that that 10 most corrupt U.S. States […]

http://minx.cc:1080/?post=350619 He actually, out of his own mouth, seems to equate “big business” with “crony capitalism.” I guess we’re not debating the terminology any longer. Amid the fight for the soul of the Republican Party, some elements of the GOP coalition have become overtly hostile to Big Business.Defeating crony capitalism has become the battle cry of libertarian conservatives. The Export-Import […]

By Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog MEMPHIS — Most Memphis residents already know that city officials, citing public safety concerns, imposed cease-and-desist orders against private ride-share companies Uber and Lyft. But city officials were possibly acting in their own interests instead. Memphis officials have a strong incentive to help cab companies beat back any competition, said Justin Owen, president of the […]

by Alex Harris   /  TNReport The Tennessee House of Representatives sponsor of legislation targeting women for criminal prosecution who give birth to drug-dependent babies called the behavior of the first mother arrested under the new law “unconscionable.” And Terri Lynn Weaver, R-Lancaster, told TNReport she’s certain the bill she guided to passage three months ago includes methamphetamine among the particular drugs she wants women […]

Race to the Top By Andrea Zelinski / Nashville Scene It’s 88 degrees outside with not a cloud in the sky and it’s barely 11 a.m. Becky Sharpe has been outside for hours climbing up and down a hilly townhouse community knocking on doors minutes from the Belle Meade Country Club. Yard signs bearing her name speckle front yards in Green […]

God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. – Genesis 41:52 When seemingly needless suffering invades our lives, we often ask ourselves, “Who needs all this grief?” But consider, for a moment, the origin of pearls. Each pearl is formed by an oyster’s internal response to a wound caused by an irritant, such as a […]

July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year. In 838,  Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids. In 1099,  First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre […]

by P. David Hornik / Front Page Mag. As of Sunday evening, on Day 13 of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas was still fighting on against Israel, although its prospects didn’t look good. With Hamas’s rocket fire on Israel intensifying two weeks ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with Iran’s nuclear program the main thing on his plate, kept ordering only small-scale […]

By Peter Sullivan  / The Hill Republicans are touting an open amendment process on House spending bills to argue the minority is treated far better in the lower chamber than in the Democratic-held Senate. Republicans point to Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) as an example of how much better life is in the House than the Senate for the […]

By Jason Howerton  / The Blaze A day after vowing to “do something” about the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby ruling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reiterated Democrats’ desire to undermine the high court’s decision by attacking the “five white men” who voted in favor of the Christian, family-owned business. There’s just one glaring problem with his statement: Justice […]

Unless you act NOW, the National Internet Tax Mandate could sail through the Senate this week! You see, Campaign for Liberty members have been so successful in keeping the National Internet Tax Mandate from even being considered by the U.S. House that the powerful interests behind it are being forced to “get creative.” Now, a “bipartisan” group of Senators — […]