Pittsburgh Steelers Ramon Foster had this to say about the controversy: Continue reading
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Fun Fact of the Day
Before entering politics, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau worked as a nightclub bouncer and a snowboard instructor.
Fun Fact of the Day
In 1961, a young girl wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy urging the President to stop the Russians from bombing the North Pole so as not to kill Santa Claus. President Kennedy wrote back letting her know he spoke to Santa and he was fine. Kennedy said Santa would be making his rounds on Christmas as scheduled.
Fun Fact of the Day
A study found that politicians tend to express lies and deceptions through longer sentences.
The looks you get some days..
A very vocal and liberal friend of mine, who happens to be a staunch Bernie supporter and worked for the local Democrat party as a volunteer, wanted to drag me into a conversation about the Confederate statues.
She prefaced it by saying, “You’re a Republican and a conservative, which is almost alt-right. Do you think we should keep those racists monuments to slavery?” Continue reading
Fun Fact of the Day
In case you’re wondering, the Dole/Kemp website from the 1996 Presidential election is still active.
And Minimum Wage goes boom..
The University of California- Berkeley, is learning about the effects of the minimum wage increases the hard way. Activists, social democratic economists, and even presidential candidates have claimed that such a boost in the minimum wage would benefit the economy.
Unless of course, you’re a college institution that has budget problems and need to let go a few hundred workers that maybe have to go someplace else to find similar work.
IRS to Expand Policing Political Non-Profits
You would think that problems Lois Lerner created would have made for smarter agency heads. You’d be wrong. From Politico:
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the agency may expand a yet-to-be-released rule governing 501(c)(4), “social welfare” groups, to include political groups known as 527s, which focus on elections. It could require them both — as well as other types of tax-exempt groups — to operate under the same definition of “political activity.”
“If it’s going to be a fair system, it needs to apply across the board,” Koskinen said when asked by POLITICO if such groups would be included in the new rule. “[I]f we have a set of definitions for 501(c)(4)s, what about everybody else? Can they do more or less [political activity]? And for us as (an) administration, for ease of administration, it makes sense to have this common definition.”
Democrats are beginning to act as if the President forgets there is a Constitution
This is in response to the Paul Waldman’s extreme whining titled: Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn’t even the president
Let’s examine what he says..
It’s safe to say that no president in modern times has had his legitimacy questioned by the opposition party as much as Barack Obama. But as his term in office enters its final phase, Republicans are embarking on an entirely new enterprise: They have decided that as long as he holds the office of the presidency, it’s no longer necessary to respect the office itself.
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