It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.— Will Rogers
The purpose of the EEOC’s criminal-background-check guidance is to discourage businesses from refusing to hire ex-offenders. However laudable and necessary it may be to reduce unemployment among this cohort, ex-offenders are not a protected class under Title VII, so the EEOC doesn’t have express statutory authority to investigate and charge businesses for discriminating against ex-offenders. The EEOC gets around this impediment by invoking disparate-impact theory. The reasoning is as follows: Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be incarcerated than whites. Therefore, even a facially neutral policy against hiring ex-offenders will screen out more blacks and Hispanics than whites. Consequently, the agency argues, this may constitute evidence of unlawful racial discrimination in violation of Title VII, giving the EEOC the authority to investigate and sue offending employers. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/338937/eeocs-new-rule-background-checks-peter-kirsanow#
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., raised questions during a radio interview
today about whether the Obama administration was smuggling guns to jihadist
rebels in a possible “international Fast and Furious” that the White House has
tried to cover up.
Speaking on “Aaron
Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio, Paul said the guns
scheme could help explain the reason for the coordinated attacks against the
U.S. special mission and CIA annex in Benghazi last September. http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2013/01/21/rand-paul-obama-in-guns-to-jihadists-cover-up-a-kind-of-international-fast-and-furious-in-benghazi/
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Following Friday morning’s appeals court ruling that Barack
Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were
unconstitutional, union attorney (and current NLRB chairman) Mark Gaston Pearce
vowed to ignore the court’s ruling.
In a statement posted on the NLRB’s website, Pearce stated:
“The Board respectfully disagrees with today’s decision and
believes that the President’s position in the matter will ultimately be upheld.
It should be noted that this order applies to only one specific case, Noel
Canning, and that similar questions have been raised in more than a dozen cases
pending in other courts of appeals. http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/25/obamas-union-controlled-nlrb-thumbs-nose-at-court-ruling-chairman-vows-to-march-onward/
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In a recent Sean Hannity program entitled, Boomtown, his 2 guests used the entire hour to show how corrupt Washington DC politics has become. "While one out of every 6 Americans wonder where their next meal is coming from, Washington DC has the highest rate of fine wine consumption in the United States," said author Peter Schweizer of the Government Accountability Institute. Mr. Schweizer also pointed out that one out of four Americans has a mortgage that is underwater, while 7 out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in the nation are in the DC area.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/washington_dc_where_cash_is_king.html#ixzz2JLYSkYRO
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In an interview with Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made the astute observation that Barack Obama is not just skeptical of our Constitution, but also has an alternative model in mind: the South African constitution. That document has been the object of fascination and envy for the American legal left ever since it was negotiated and passed in the mid-1990s, during South Africa’s transition to democracy.
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Last week, which began miserably enough with the defilement of the Bibles of both President Lincoln and Rev. King in support of a political program neither would have tolerated, ended much better than anyone had any right to expect.
As the week wound down, the agenda of our would-be Augustan overlord received two stiff blows from the judiciary. The first was a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that Obama's appointments to the NLRB while claiming that Congress was "in recess" (it wasn't, by any rational measure) were unconstitutional, rendering all actions taken by the Board since that date null and void. The decision throws the Board into chaos, which is exactly where it belongs, since the majority of its members played right along with Obama's stunt with no visible signs of scruples.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/two_good_signs.html#ixzz2JLa6yjcx
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None of this technological innovation is due in any way to the Obama administration. It has not given any financial support to these innovations; indeed, they were developed long before his benighted regime assumed power. No, Obama corruptly chose to squander the vast majority of federal R&D spending on grotesquely inefficient so-called "green energy" sources, including proven losers such as solar and wind power (which produce their inconsistent and comparatively feeble streams of energy only with massive taxpayer subsidies), and new bizarre losers such as algae-derived biofuel.
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To guarantee the will of the people would decide who would govern us our Founding Fathers gave each state has the right to apportion its Electoral College votes (ECVs) as it wished.
Democrats don’t really like this because it opens the door to changes that would give people more of a voice in the selection of our presidents. Throughout the last two hundred years, they have often relied on voter fraud to win presidential elections.
http://americac2c.com/profiles/blogs/it-s-rigging-the-electoral-college-vote-when-dems-can-t-cheat
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/bypassing_obama.html#ixzz2JLaZWKRl -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To guarantee the will of the people would decide who would govern us our Founding Fathers gave each state has the right to apportion its Electoral College votes (ECVs) as it wished.
Democrats don’t really like this because it opens the door to changes that would give people more of a voice in the selection of our presidents. Throughout the last two hundred years, they have often relied on voter fraud to win presidential elections.
http://americac2c.com/profiles/blogs/it-s-rigging-the-electoral-college-vote-when-dems-can-t-cheat
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NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said Sunday, perhaps unwittingly, that black Americans “are doing far worse” than when President Obama first took office.
“The country’s back to pretty much where it was when this president started,” Mr. Jealous told MSNBC host David Gregory on “Meet the Press.” “White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing far worse.”
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A new study finds almost half of Americans with college degrees are working at jobs that don't require one. It's the latest example of how federal subsidies are creating a massive higher-education bubble.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012813-642236-subsidies-create-glut-college-graduates-student-aid.htm#ixzz2JMqUUJmh
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012813-642236-subsidies-create-glut-college-graduates-student-aid.htm#ixzz2JMqUUJmh
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, joined a chorus of skeptics who questioned President Barack Obama's recent comments about his hobby of skeet shooting, a sport where participants fire shotguns to break airborne clay disks.
"If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this? Why have we not seen photos? Why hasn't he referenced this at any point in time?" Blackburn said Monday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
"I tell you what I do think," she later added. "I think he should invite me to Camp David, and I'll go skeet shooting with him and I bet I'll beat him."
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The former president of California’s largest union local was found guilty by a federal jury in Los Angeles on Monday of stealing from the low-wage workers he represented.
Tyrone Freeman, who led Local 6434 of the Service Employees International Union, was convicted on 14 criminal counts, including embezzlement of union funds, violating tax laws and mail fraud.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/former-seiu-union-president-convicted-embezzlement.html
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The Treasury Department ignored its own guidelines on executive pay at firms that received taxpayer bailouts and last year approved compensation packages of more than $3 million for the senior ranks at General Motors, Ally Financial and American International Group, according to a watchdog report released Monday.
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