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The Hill is reporting that the North Carolina AFL-CIO has a “Hug a Union Thug” booth at Monday’s Carolina Fest celebration, one of the final “pre-convention” events at the DNC. In Charlotte, people will be asked to “hug a union thug”

Chick-fil-A chief executive Dan Cathy set off an uproar when he voiced his opinion in support of traditional marriage. Calls for boycotts of his business went out across the country, people and businesses were threatened and intimidated in any number

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com FOX NEWS: A document the National Education Association filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 indicates that the teachers union donated $100,000 to Media Matters For America nearly two years ago, describing

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Illinois’ credit rating on Wednesday, citing “weak pension funding levels and lack of action on reform measures.”  S&P also gave the state a “negative outlook.” The agency lowered Illinois’ rating from A+ to A. This is

Gov. Scott Walker took to the stage of the Republican National Convention tonight in Tampa to a spectacular standing ovation, the crowd applause so loud that it completely drowned him out at times. Walker, of course, is the governor who

The weather-related cancellation of the first day of the Republican National Convention didn’t just stop the GOP party faithful who came to Tampa. It also put a serious damper on the protests that were planned for the event.  A protest

There was a time that Charlie Crist was considered a rising star in the Republican party. He had won the governor’s office in Florida in 2006, an otherwise lousy year for the GOP. He was fairly popular with the voters

The government continues to claim the southern border is secure, yet many who live along the border regions disagree. The latest is Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, AZ and he provides Mary Ramirez at The Daily Caller with some

The most terrifying aspect of the unions’ plan to take over America is this: they have a plan whereby they will be able to force huge swaths of America to be unionized. Their cunning scheme is revealed in Shadowbosses: Government

Governor Christie was interviewed by WCBS Monday about his role as keynote speaker at the GOP convention. “I’m not nervous, no. I’m excited,” he told reporter Peter Haskell. Christie says he is now on his 7th draft of the remarks

When pundits likened Barack Obama’s socialist intentions to Adolf Hitler’s, leftist critics lampooned the comparisons as partisan attacks that were hilariously extreme. But now Obama’s deathless comment “If you got a business, you didn’t build that” has opened the eyes

One of the biggest issues in this election, and every election as far as the eye can see, is stopping voter fraud. Preserving and protecting the process is essential to the future of our Republic. There have been recent victories

In another one of his “Groundhog Day” speeches earlier this week in the East Room, President Obama excoriated the Romney-Ryan budget plan, along with the Republican-led Congress, demanding extending the Bush tax cuts only for those making under $250,000. Behind

Vice President Joe Biden has a wide repertoire of foot-in-the-mouth statements: America can’t “lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles … You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian

In a stunning example of truth stranger than fiction, Democrats in the California Assembly killed a bill that would have made it easier to fire teachers accused of serious sexual offenses against children. The bill SB 1530, had bipartisan support

(AP) Christie tapped to give GOP keynote at conventionBy PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressWASHINGTON Chris Christie, the sometimes abrasive but always entertaining governor of New Jersey, is set to be announced Tuesday as the keynote speaker for the Republicans’ national convention later

UCLA continues to back away from National Dream University, the partnership announced last week by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and the National Labor College that will offer college courses to illegal aliens around the country.  The

Stockton, California made history in June 2012 when it became the largest U.S. municipality in history to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It wasn’t the first Golden State city to do so, and what’s happening in out west is spreading to the

The rise of the tea party and the 2010 elections were about one thing: restraining the growth of the federal government. Voters, still reeling from TARP, saw the stimulus boondoggle, the auto bailouts, and a government take-over of health care

CHICAGO – An education expert from Stanford University told the presidents of the nation’s two largest teachers unions Thursday that they could help increase compensation for educators throughout the nation if they would agree to reward the best teachers and

Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and their union cronies want one of their own — Democrat Christie Vilsack — in Congress, and their Super PACs have joined forces  to falsely smear Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for accepting schedule pay increases even though

We have told you several times about the Barack Obama War on Coal and the damage it is doing in coal country.Despite ridiculous efforts by his minions to convince us otherwise, Obama’s policies are destroying jobs. Just last week, another

Recent actions by General Motors regarding subprime lending reveal how much Warren — and the Obama administration — are willing to pull strings to pick winners and losers.  The Investors Business Daily recently noted in a story that “while the administration

The Service Employees International Union staged “flash mob” protests in the Washington, D.C., area on Thursday attacking Mitt Romney’s business career and the companies in which Bain Capital, his former employer, have invested. Billed under the Twitter hashtag #RomneyEconomy, the

Over the last week, the buzz has been building around the idea that Mitt Romney is seriously considering New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as his pick for Vice President. Christie has become a rock star among Republicans, conservative and country-clubber

I spent this last week vacationing with my wife in Paris. Between visits to historic sites like the Louvre and Versailles, my wife and I noticed something very odd: nobody seemed to be working. The sidewalk cafes were chock full

This week, hundreds of state lawmakers are enjoying the sights and sounds of Chicago at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual gathering. Over four days, the state legislators from around the country will hear big-name speakers, attend gala, catered

Amidst the flurry of ever-more-desperate campaign emails from the Obama team, yesterday’s missive still stood out as beyond the pale. “We’re in trouble,” the email said. “We got beat three months in a row. If we don’t step it up,

The NY Times just wrote about the demise of the CA GOP.  It claimed its dramatic loss in voter registration, now just 30% of the state’s voters, is due to the fact that the party has run out of ideas popular with

The political operative’s voice had dropped to a grave whisper. “This is future of dirty tricks in American politics. It’s happening right now, before our eyes. You better believe that some very important people are watching it very, very closely

PITTSBURGH – Should public school teachers who are caught with child pornography be able to draw a pension from the state?We believe the answer should be a resounding ‘no,’ but that’s currently not the case. The question is at the

Here’s Obama yesterday at a swank fundraiser in Connecticut. Per the usual, Obama packs more dishonesty into two minutes than one would ever think possible. Obama even misleads on the Robin Hood legend. But when you consider the state of

August 7th marks the end of a primary storm that has waged between three Republican primary senate candidates: Todd Akin, John Brunner, and Sarah Steelman. The race has divided grassroots and the abundant mud-slinging from the campaigns has everyone wishing

In what may contradict testimony by Obama administration officials under oath and may be a violation of federal law, The Daily Caller obtained emails that show Timothy Geithner’s Treasury Department “was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees

The new owner of the Orange County Register is telling his new employees that he wants to hire “more of them.” He also intends to actually expand the paper whereas the rest of the industry seems to be contracting. New

In one of my last posts, I questioned why David Maraniss has contempt for those of us who want to give Barack Obama the thorough vetting that Maraniss, an editor at the Washington Post, failed to do in his recent book. Now the