It’s extremely hard to lose a government job, even when your poor performance results in the deaths of other Americans under your responsibility. Despite claims that heads were rolling after a report identified egregious security lapses in Benghazi, it appears the individuals responsible are merely being reassigned to new jobs. An independent report commissioned by [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United States over the last five months are in government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S, according to the BLS, including 19,938,000 who were employed by [...]

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The federal government has closed a criminal probe of alleged financial misconduct by Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” and no charges will be filed, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said on Friday. A separate federal investigation relating to allegations of civil rights abuses by Arpaio’s office is continuing. The announcement [...]

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This time, probably for good. And now even V-6s are in trouble. V-8s are on the way out — again. The first mass extinction occurred circa late 1970s/early ’80s, as a result of the first round of the government fuel economy edicts known by the acronym, CAFE — or Corporate Average Fuel Economy. CAFE mandated [...]

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The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank’s annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education [...]

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White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday tried to shut down growing opposition to the president’s decision to force religious groups to pay fines if they decline to comply with a policy regarding health insurance and contraception. “No, there’s not a debate” about the policy inside the administration, Carney said during Thursday’s White House press [...]

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Barry Levinson, responsible for such films as Rain Man, Bugsy and Diner, channels the Abbott and Costello classic, Who’s on First, to discourse on the difference between unemployment and people looking for work. And here all along you thought they were the same. Unemployment as reported is at 9 percent. But it’s actually more than [...]

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Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not have delayed your dinner plans: “The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You’ve been a terrific crowd!” via The State of Our Union Is Broke – Mark Steyn [...]

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The governments pending 2016 35.5 MPG CAFE fuel economy requirements — which for the first time apply to trucks as well as passenger cars — are going to make it very difficult for any automaker to sell trucks in volume in this country. Ford has just dropped the compact-size Ranger from its U.S. model lineup [...]

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The National Federation of Independent Business NFIB stole a march on the Obama Administration this morning by filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court appealing the 11th Circuit’s Obamacare decision. The Department of Justice DOJ had announced on Monday that it was not going to ask all 11 judges of the 11th Circuit Court [...]

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