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Barbara Vicevich
It would appear that things are getting desperate for the administration. Earlier this month, the Department of Labor suggested that companies really don’t have to comply with certain, apparently inconvient, labor laws.
Cities and municipalities throughout the country are struggling with the ever increasing costs of the public employee salaries, pensions,and health benefits that they promised when times were good. It used to be that those cities could pass tax increases by claiming they were needed for police and firefighters, and of course, the children. But, people are…
The Office of the Inspector General audits all administrative branches of the federal government. Unfortunately, by the time it does so, the money has been spent.
Senator Harry Reid (D. Nv.) pronounced last week that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for 10 years. The claim was based, per Senator Reid, on a telephone call from some unnamed person who presumably was an investor in Bain Capital. How this investor could know anything about Romney’s taxes will forever remain a mystery, but an…
Those words were spoken by New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. in response to the recent arrest of a citizen carrying a gun, a story that has been prominent here for a few days. It is important to understand what the Mayor said.
The race between Massachusetts republican Senator Scott Brown and democrat candidate Elizabeth Warren always seems to provide entertaining moments. And it did so again on Monday.
Average gasoline prices have risen by 17 cents in July. And, given yesterday’s fire at a Chevron refinery in California, prices will rise even further. Most will blame “big oil” (don’t you just love it that “someone” must be blamed for everything in this country). Before you do so, read on.
Today, a major provision of Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius’s health care law will take effect…employers must provide coverage for contraception and abortion, as she has mandated.
Yesterday, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill which Governor Patrick is expected to sign, that is claimed will dramatically lower health care spending in the state. How will they do this?
As my brother said today on his show, today would have been Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. He passed away in 2006. He won the Nobel Prize in economics for 1976, 200 years after our country began. He believed firmly in the economic principles of our founding.