The CBO has updated its projections for Obamacare’s impact on the economy, and it’s not pretty. By 2021 the CBO is projecting that Obamacare will have cost America the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. That’s up from the CBO’s previous estimate of about 800,000. Just to put that number into perspective, 2.3 million jobs lost…
South Dakota SB128 Would Allow Businesses To Discriminate Against Gays
South Dakota SB128 is being considered in that state’s current legislative session, and if passed it would make it explicitly legal for businesses to refuse service to gays. It has 12 sponsors, and is currently sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee. An excerpt: Section 1. No person or entity may bring suit against another person…
It Got Fixed: Tens Of Thousands On Hold Because HealthCare.Gov Can't Fix Enrollment Errors
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com “It got fixed,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of HealthCare.gov in their pre-Super Bowl interview. “Now it’s working the way it’s supposed to.” Some might find that hard to believe for any number of reasons, not the least of which is this report from the Washington Post today…
California Cracks Down On Unlicensed Exchange Of Knowledge
Because you can’t just share your experience, knowledge and expertise with other people willy-nilly. The government must license that sort of thing. Hacker boot camps have sprung up across the world in recent years, offering crash courses in the art and science of computer programming. These schools are particularly prevalent in the San Francisco Bay…
Is There A Gender Wage Gap, Or Do Men And Women Just Make Different Choices?
During his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promised action on the gender wage gap. “Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns,” he said. “That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal…
State Department Report: Keystone Pipeline Won't Add To Carbon Emissions
Last year President Obama said he would only approve the Keystone XL pipeline project if it is found that it wouldn’t contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. “Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation’s interest,” he said. “And our national interest will be served only…
Drones In North Dakota Make Big Headlines After Conviction
Farmer Rodney Brossart, whose case made big national headlines when the Nelson County Sheriff called in a US Border Patrol drone to help with his arrest, was convicted recently. Not for the original crime of cattle rustling which brought law enforcement to his doorstep but rather for his standoff with the cops. The conviction, like…
How Much Snow Does It Take To Trigger A School Snow Day Where You Live?
A lot of kids got a school snow day earlier this month, often more than one, and it had some people scratching their heads. Sure, it was really cold, but there wasn’t really a lot of snow in many places. Did schools really need to be closed? Is this costing us too much in lost…
Maybe This Is Why North Dakota Democrats Can't Get A Challenger For Kevin Cramer
In the 2012 cycle North Dakota Democrats lost ground. They broke even in the state legislature, but lost the only state-level executive branch office they held (Superintendent of Schools), and while Heidi Heitkamp made headlines by upsetting Republican Rick Berg in the Senate race, she still barely won. The last time Senator Kent Conrad, the…
President Obama's State Of The Union Speech Was Most Interesting For What It Didn't Contain
After watching President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight, I was more interested in what he didn’t say that what he did say. What the President did say was a rehash of pretty much everything he’s been saying for five years now, with one exception in the form of an executive order mandating a…