Reports: Obama to issue executive order expanding overtime pay

Fred Barbash The Washington Post 3/12/2014

President Obama will issue an executive order today expanding the number of people who qualify for overtime pay under federal labor law, according to news reports.

According to the Associated Press, the directive is designed to help salaried workers, such as fast-food shift supervisors or convenience store managers, who […]

This isn’t our country anymore-Dinesh D’Souza, James O’Keefe and the 2014 Communist Manifesto

Jennifer Davis Victory Girls 1/25/2014

Many mornings I sit down with my coffee and my breakfast, and like large numbers of Americans, my iPhone, and review the headlines on a favorite news site. My personal favorite happens to be the Drudge Report, and this morning I found a bevy of depressing headlines awaiting me when […]

Stimulus-Backed Green Energy Company ECOtality May Declare Bankruptcy

DOE suspends stimulus payments after company’s SEC filings

Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 8/12/2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy.

ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with […]

Government Gives Sweet Deal To Laid-Off Boeing Workers: 2.5 Years Unemployment,Travel, Moving And Supplementary Pay

Meanwhile the Army is cutting back on hot meals and we still can’t get into the White House, the “People’s House” unless you’re one of the privileged.

Zip Weasel Zippers 8/3/2013

Thanks to a federal program lined up by their unions, local workers laid off during the current dip in employment at Boeing Commercial Airplanes […]

Thomas Perez confirmed as Labor Secretary

Steve Contorino The Washington Examiner 7/18/2013

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Thomas Perez to be the next Secretary of Labor after narrowly crossing the 60-vote threshold the day before to end a lengthy filibuster of the nominee.

Perez, previously an assistant U.S. attorney general in the civil rights division, will replace outgoing secretary Hilda Solis.

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Obama’s IRS

Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama’s political opponents

The Washington Free Beacon 5/11/2013

 

“President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS,”

—President Obama jokes during his commencement speech at Arizona State University in 2009.

Under President […]

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