#375976

Oakland's Minimum Wage Law Has Failed

Submitted 10 years ago by ActRight Community

The $12.25-an-hour minimum wage in Oakland, California, is killing the city’s small businesses. The Employment Policies Institute polled 223 businesses in the city, many of which had 15 or fewer employees. It found a quarter of the businesses say they may have to shut down; half hiked their...
loading
#375977
Twenty-four hours before coming face to face with Cuban President Raul Castro, President Obama on Thursday continued to extend an olive branch from Washington to Havana — but analysts say there are real questions about whether Mr. Castro truly is interested in friendly relations with the U.S.
loading
#375978
When the Walter Scott Scheme Team looks back on what tripped them up in 2015 they'll be able to point to one decision, hiring Ryan Julison. Without Julison appearing - the Walter Scott story would ...
loading
#375979
The Social Security inspector general questioned the policy this month in light of the fact that Spanish is the predominant language in Puerto Rico.
loading
#375980
This new generation of GOP hopefuls understands what only Newt Gingrich knew in 2012. If you want a chance at the White House, you need to beat the other candidates and you need to beat the press. Mitt Romney, decent fellow that he is, tacitly accepted the press’ claims of objectivity, even if he didn’t believe it in his heart.?
loading
#375981
Today the Fort Hood soldiers who were wounded in the 2009 terrorist attack, the one that the Obama administration insisted on classifying as workplace violence, will finally receive the Purple Hear...
loading
#375982
A 20-year-old Kansas man plotted to kill American soldiers with a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base, an attack he planned to carry out on behalf of the ISIS terror group, prosecutors announced Friday.
loading
#375983
Charles Krauthammer argued that "Clinton fatigue" would be "one of the great advantages" for the GOP against Hillary,
loading
#375984

Framework for Iran Deal Collapses

Submitted 10 years ago by ActRight Community

To everyone but Barack Obama, this will come as no surprise.
loading
#375985
"The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening. Unfortunately, in our society the value that we place on individuals has a tremendous amount to do with how much money they have."
loading
#375986
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen is putting his foot down.
loading
#375987
A bipartisan group of senators is seeking a federal probe into reports that U.S. companies are laying off thousands of American workers and replacing them with foreign labor – even forcing them to train their replacements, in what one anonymous whistleblower called a “humiliating” experience.
loading
#375988
And the bottom 20%? They get paid by Uncle Sam. We compare tax burdens as Tax Day approaches.
loading
#375989
Man Up, Campus Christians—Your Timidity Feeds the PC Beast -
loading
#375990
Looking back at the Republican victory in California’s 2018 gubernatorial election, we can see that the roots of the GOP sweep in Sacramento are traceable to the events of April 2015.  It was then that the Democrats’ romance with Big Green Austerity Politics became a fatal embrace.
loading
#375991
During the backlash from Indiana's Religious Freedom and Restoration Act, a small pizzeria called Memories Pizza was targeted by the media due to their unwillingness to cater to homosexual wedding ...
loading
#375992
About half the people who received federal money to help pay for their Obamacare insurance will repay some of that money this tax season.
loading
#375993
New York Times Kicks off NRA Convention Coverage with Massive Lie -
loading
#375994
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has named Drew Willison as his new Chief of Staff. Willison, who was serving as Senate Sergeant at Arms on January 1, the day Reid sustained serious injuries at his Henderson, Nevada home, replaces David Krone.
loading
#375995
'But of course nobody on that side seems to have the slightest doubt about their cause,' a prominent columnist wrote. 'In a holy war, there is no room for doubt.'
loading
#375996
Seriously. And I include Hillary Clinton. And not just on one or two token positions. On racial injustice issues, Rand Paul brings it.
loading
#375998
President's smoking more likely to cause daughter's health problem than climate change.
loading
#375999
Unsurprisingly, gender-neutral bathrooms are part of this special snowflake's complaint. ... Read more
loading
#376000
President Obama has long known that the real decision maker in Iran is Ayatollah Khamenei, the so-called supreme leader. While other Iranian officials have negotiated with Western powers over the mullahs’ nuclear program, Khamenei’s opinion is the only one that really counts. It is for this reason that Obama began writing directly to Khamenei early in his presidency.
loading