May 27, 2014 – 7:17 am
Healthcare costs are often a sticky point when it comes to union contracts. I can specifically recall several contract negotiations for a company with over 180k employees in recent years, over moving employees from standard plans to Health Care Savings accounts. Now this same thing is playing out, and the higher costs are thanks solely […]
May 26, 2014 – 7:21 am
Never let a good crisis go to waste (Politico) Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday he would urge Senate leaders to reconsider tougher gun control and mental health measures in the wake of this weekend’s deadly shootings near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the Connecticut Democrat said the recent […]
May 23, 2014 – 2:52 pm
Well, I’m just shocked. Obama won California 60% to Romney’s 37%. Over 7.85 million voted for the ‘Bamster. What the heck are they complaining about? (LA Times) Nearly 1,500 Californians have complained to state regulators in the last four months about their Obamacare coverage purchased through California’s insurance exchange. New data reveal the biggest category […]
May 16, 2014 – 1:15 pm
Well, only partly, because… (Campus Reform) Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota have cancelled an event to celebrate the end of the year after complaints that bringing a camel on campus could offend those of Middle Eastern cultures. The “Hump Day†event, put on by the Residence Hall Association (RHA), was supposed […]
May 14, 2014 – 8:45 am
So claims her human rights attorney (CNS News) A 15-year-old girl who witnessed the murder of her father and teenage brother at the hands of Boko Haram terrorists says she decided to tell her story after the group kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls last month in the same village in northern Nigeria where she grew up. […]
May 12, 2014 – 2:15 pm
On the bright side, the neither the NFL nor any team can do anything to him, since he retired (NJ.com) Former Giants running back Derrick Ward wasn’t the only person on Twitter commenting about new Rams rookie Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend after hearing from St. Louis. He also wasn’t the only one who was […]
May 10, 2014 – 12:37 pm
The narrative was started months ago, and has coalesced perfectly (HuffPo) Michael Sam is ready to make his NFL dream a reality. But is the NFL ready to embrace the reality of Michael Sam? The former Missouri defensive lineman, named a first-team All-American after the 2013 college football season, is on the verge of becoming […]
May 3, 2014 – 7:08 am
Something interesting to note: Liberals care a whole lot about a stone cold killer, a brutal man who repeatedly raped and sodomized a woman, shot her, then buried her alive, who saw his veins collapse during his execution, eventually leading to his death some 40 minutes later. On the other side is Benghazi, where 4 […]
April 28, 2014 – 6:28 pm
Here’s a new one in the fight to force gay marriage to be accepted (News And Observer) A coalition of clergy members filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging North Carolina’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, saying it violated their religious freedom. The clergy members said that they’d like to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in their […]
April 22, 2014 – 3:09 pm
Is it any surprise that a celebration of smoking pot (4/20), which would involved mostly Lefties, would result in mountains of trash? It seems that most rallies, demonstrations, protests, gatherings, etc, which involve mostly Lefties tends to result in environmental damage. (SFgate) After the masses departed and the smoke cleared, workers descended Monday on Golden […]