The new Farm Bill is set to come to a vote this afternoon. The bill was split between the farm subsidies (aka corporate welfare) portion and the food stamps portion. The portion that will be voted on is the farm subsidies portion. The CBO has released its budget figures on this bill and they’re a disappointment for fiscal …
Striking another blow for religious freedom, two Obama appointees and a Clinton appointee told Liberty University to get stuck regarding it’s opposition to Obamacare’s employer mandate: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, setting the stage for another possible Supreme Court battle next term. …
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If you follow some political people on Twitter, you’ll know that there is a bit of a scandal involving Rand Paul and his new media director, Jack Hunter. The Free Beacon reported yesterday that Hunter has a history of inflammatory statements going back from his days as a radio shock jock in Charleston, South Carolina. …
Some time ago, I wrote a post about art and ideology. I stressed that conservatives should stop worrying about the “message” in the art that they create and concern themselves more with just creating great art. Movies fall under that same umbrella. Movies that have an agenda — for example Redacted, Fair Game, In The …
Back in May, we wrote here on PFoL about the court case against Apple Inc, in which the Department of Justice sued the technology company and five major publishers for deliberately manipulating prices of e-books. Today a federal judge ruled against Apple, claiming that with the release of the iPad in 2010, Apple coerced publishers …
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Everybody thought the biggest news last week about Obamacare was the delay in the employer mandate by one year. It was another blow to the unpopular law that President Obama considers to be his crowning achievement. Not to be outdone by that news, the Obama administration on Friday (of course!) released the following bombshell: On …
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This could be big. I’m not going to jump to any conclusions about who, what or why but authorities believe the train in Canada that has (so far) claimed 15 lives, was tampered with: Canadian authorities have found evidence that a train that crashed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, was tampered with, provincial police Capt. Michel Forget …
There has been a lot of talk about the projected 2013 Federal deficit being *only* $642 billion. Allow me to straighten a few things out. First of all…seriously? We are supposed to celebrate spending more than a half of a trillion dollars than we take in? This excludes $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, of course, …
Mike’s Financial Pocket — Celebrating A Deficit That Is “Only” $642 BillionRead More »
Pretty big news. Of course, I am sure some people (aka nimrods) will say Perry is not going to run because he’s skeeeered of Wendy Davis. Yeah, right. From USA Today: Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Monday he will not seek re-election next year, bringing an end to a record run as chief executive of …
President Barack Obama and his administration are now considering pulling all American troops from Afghanistan by next year. According to The New York Times,