Holiday Wrap: Shopping Up 2.7 Percent
National retail sales during the 2013 holiday shopping season grew by 2.7 percent, according to data released this week by ShopperTrak – which bills itself...
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ADP: Economy Adds 238K Jobs
The American economy had another solid month on the employment front in December, private payroll processor ADP reported this week. “The U.S. private sector added...
A Billion Smokers
Nearly a billion people on the planet earth smoked cigarettes on a daily basis in 2012, a new report reveals. That’s a big increase from...
2013: Year Of The Gun
Twenty-one million applications for firearm purchases were run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in 2013 – a 7.7 percent increase from...
Website To Tackle Government School Failures
South Carolina’s worst government-run school district has landed on the pages of a new website devoted to exposing the chronic failure of government-run education in...
US Senate Extends Unemployment Benefits
The U.S. Senate approved a three month extension of expired “extended” unemployment benefits – a move which will cost taxpayers $6.4 billion in the event...
Lindsey Vonn Out Of 2014 Olympics
Superstar American skier Lindsey Vonn – a four-time world champion and the first American to win gold in the women’s downhill event – will not...
Chicago Gun Ban Struck Down
A year ago this website took a moment amid the post-Newtown, Connecticut handwringing to point out that Chicago – home to a leftist mayor and...
Barack Obama: Back From Vacay
U.S. President Barack Obama is back in the office this week after a fifteen-day Christmas vacation in Hawaii. He spent most of his break playing...
Auburn Fans Blast South Carolina
Auburn fans are publicly rebuking the University of South Carolina football program in the wake of the Tigers’ defeat in this week’s big national championship...