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New IRS regulation will reduce capital available for job creation By Nita Ghei The Washington Times Friday, May 4, 2012 A lot of money is about to leave the United States. Because of a few rogue bureau crats at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) acting without congressional authority, American financial institutions can expect to see [...]
Obama brags as joblessness reaches record high of 11 percent By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, May 4, 2012 The White House crowed on Friday about the unemployment rate dropping a 10th of a percent. At the same time, the number of people out of the labor force reached a record high. The [...]
Is social-media site being used to silence conservatives? By Anneke E. Green The Washington Times Friday, May 4, 2012 Twitter was buzzing April 29 over news that conservative Chris Loesch was having a hard time keeping his account online. The music producer and composer’s account was suspended and reinstated three times in 24 hours. Site [...]
By Wayne Allyn Root Published May 04, 2012 FoxNews.com As a lifelong capitalist evangelist, serial entrepreneur, and Reagan Libertarian, I was recently asked to deliver a lecture about the virtues of capitalism, entrepreneurship and fiscal conservatism at Harvard University. I was unsure if my message and personal story would be welcomed, or even understood. I [...]
May 4, 2012 – By J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON – A wave of violence in Mexico has led to a string of gruesome discoveries. The bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just 6 miles from the U.S. border. Five were men and four women. Pictures showed the [...]
by Keith Koffler on May 4, 2012, 11:07 am President Obama has held just one full length, multi-topic, solo press conference in the last six months, effectively abolishing the most accessible venue for American citizens to observe the thinking and learn the views of their leader. It’s May, and the president has stood for only [...]
By Justin Sink – 05/04/12 05:02 PM ET House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday that the Obama campaign’s new website — which uses a fictionalized woman named Julia to illustrate how the president’s policies help female voters — is “creepy” and “demeaning.” “It suggests that this woman can’t go anywhere in life [...]
May 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER On Sunday evenings, President Obama meets with his top ten campaign officials to “gather for a confidential briefing on his re-election,” according to the New York Times. Present at these meetings, which, we learn, usually take place after the president’s Sunday golf outings, are a slew of White [...]
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05/04/2012 09:31 AM ET The civilian labor force shrank in April by 342,000 workers and remains below where it stood when the economic recovery started 34 months ago, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Had the labor force not declined, unemployment would have [...]
Al Armendariz, the EPA official who resigned in disgrace this week, was no outlier among the Obama administration’s regulators. May 3, 2012 WSJ Al “Crucify Them” Armendariz resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency this week, for the mistake of telling it like it is. All he leaves behind is an entire administration of Al Armendarizes. [...]

