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Washington D.C. is in desperate need of entry-level jobs and mega retailer Wal-Mart was ready to bring hundreds of such jobs to the Nation’s Capitol. But the city council decided to force a “living wage” requirement on the company despite

NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa – A woman got more than she bargained for when she discovered a 3 1/2 foot orange and white snake in a bag of potatoes she bought from a local Walmart store.  Bonnie Raygor was preparing dinner

You think carrying The State’s water is easy work? Think again, my friends. A study of 900 journalists done by the University of Kansas found that a full 22% of television journalists were facing burnout. Why, one morning show host

In 2002 the celebrated indie film movement was coming to an end. After a pretty remarkable run that lasted about a decade, these smaller-budgeted, highly original personal films driven by a single vision were about to lapse into self-parody (from

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka attacked President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for lauding Walmart’s decision to hire honorably discharged veterans. “Walmart’s recent announcement of a plan to hire returning honorably discharged veterans is more about public relations than

In a 69-27 vote, the Senate on Monday passed its Internet sales tax bill. The bill now moves to the House, where it faces a tougher road to passage. Conservatives and Republicans are split on the issue. Rep. Paul Ryan

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Walmart, Amazon, and some Republicans are fighting to ram through an Internet sales tax bill to raise revenues and crush smaller e-commerce competitors. The “Marketplace Fairness Act” (S. 743), a retread of a bill introduced in

In a roundtable discussion on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Penn University’s Anthea Butler outdid the panel of outraged socialists invited to sit and tell Ms. Harris-Perry how smart she is and affirm her position by never daring to offer an

A new study finds that, contrary to President Obama’s promises, the cost of your health insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket (more than they have already) once ObamaCare kicks in, in some cases by double digits. The non-partisan Society of

LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC HOST: Joel Pollak, welcome back. I want to ask you, Joel, I see this in terms — very much in terms of personal freedom, individual responsibility, free markets. I see you sipping on a slurpee. I think

In a Quinnipiac University poll released today, President Obama has lost whatever edge the media still pretends he enjoys over Republicans on the overall issue of guns. Only 42% of voters trust Obama on the issue of guns, compared to

In January, Americans suffered the biggest plunge in monthly personal income in 20 years, erasing $505.5 billion of wealth from their wallets. Driving the income nosedive were the 2% payroll tax increase, soaring gas prices, and higher than typical December

Fox News liberal contributor Tamara Holder

This ABC News headline is just another example of the media’s ongoing war against Walmart–a cheap way to make them look like a company in desperate need of immediate unionization because of the fascist way they treat their employees: Walmart

When President Barack Obama and Congress agreed to increase the federal payroll tax by two percent to temporarily avert the so-called fiscal cliff in January, Americans were left with less money to spend. Now, some of the country’s largest companies

An internal email from Walmart Vice President Jerry Murray said February “sales are a total disaster” and mark the worst sales start of any month in seven years. “In case you haven’t seen a sales report these days, February (month-to-date) sales

Economic growth is in the negative, unemployment is on the rise, Walmart’s forecasting a disastrous February for retail sales, poverty’s up, gas prices are up, the cost of health care premiums are up, middle class incomes are falling, consumer confidence

President Barack Obama met Tuesday with the usual suspects of left-wing advocacy groups to discuss immigration. The White House calls them “progressive and labor leaders” and “business leaders.” The White House described the summit this way: In the afternoon, the President

When architect Robin Hall went to Port Canaveral during her Disney cruise with her family, she was looking for fun and sun but instead saw bars and bail. Hall was jailed almost as soon as she arrived in Florida for

Walmart, one of the nation’s leading sites for ammunition and gun sales, has caved in to pressure from the leftist media, limiting ammunition sales per customer. According to a Walmart spokesperson, customers will be restricted to purchasing three boxes per

What did Politifact ignore? Only the single most important piece of context that brings home a Republican congressman’s point about the potential instability of ObamaCare. And why did Politifact ignore this crucially important point? Probably because this little hunk of

As some of you may have already heard, the state of North Dakota is currently experiencing a politically incorrect and politically inconvenient economic boom in the midst of Obama’s national economic program of stagnation. Thanks to the discovery of oil

Mega retailer Wal-Mart says it will hire 100,000 newly discharged veterans over the next five years and will buy an additional $50 billion worth of U.S.-made products over the next ten years. The new effort, said Wal-Mart U.S. Chief Executive

A man whose name and address was published as a gun owner in the Journal News, a New York newspaper, had his gun safe targeted by burglars over the weekend. Thankfully, the thieves failed to gain access to the guns

Buried at the bottom of a New York Times piece might be the real reason to explain why New York’s Journal News did something as sensationally stupid as publishing the names and addresses of over 30,000 legal gun owners living

As I’ve mentioned before, while I’m a huge supporter of the Second Amendment, I’m no fan of guns and sincerely wish that owning one (or three) wasn’t a necessary responsibility, especially when you have a family. Here’s another reason why

After President Barack Obama and liberals seized upon the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre to push for more gun control laws, Walmarts in at at least five states, including Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Kansas, sold out of semi-automatic guns. In addition,

Scarborough’s not-at-all veiled threat to Hollywood about government censorship troubles me even more than ‘Sanctimonious Joe’s’ emotionally-driven betrayal of our Second Amendment civil rights.  We’re talking about the government censoring artistic freedom and speech here; we’re talking about our most sacred of rights

A new documentary about the Occupy Wall Street movement called “99%: The Occupy Wall St. Collaborative Film” will be screening at next month’s Sundance Film Festival; not a shock since the film was produced under the auspices of the Sundance

One of President Obama’s campaign pledges in 2008 was to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. In order to meet that goal, a group of organizations (such as the NEA and the National Association of Elementary School Principals) formed

Remember when Chris Christie was hugging Barack Obama as they posed for photo-ops after Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey? He might have spent his time more profitably by making sure officials in the devastated areas were prepared to assist FEMA

And so the government takeover of our health care system begins: Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of

Union leaders and those in the Occupy movement are demanding a minimum wage increase be included in the fiscal cliff deal being negotiated in Washington, D.C.  According to NYU Local, “labor advocates and some economists insist that a permanent fix must include