How One State Made the Minimum Wage Irrelevant

How One State Made the Minimum Wage Irrelevant: "DICKINSON, N.D.—As policymakers in Washington, D.C., debate raising the federal minimum wage, entry-level workers in North Dakota enjoy pay levels nearly twice the current federal minimum."



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Rising Healthcare Premiums

Rising Healthcare Premiums: "n nine of the 10 states that have filed their proposed 2015 insurance rates, the largest health insurers are increasing premiums between 8.5 percent and 22.8 percent for next year, reports the Wall Street Journal.

These proposals are a reflection of rising prescription-drug costs, medical inflation (around 5.4 percent for 2014) and the ACA's fees and coverage mandates, according to insurance companies. Notably, in the 10 states that have filed rate proposals, the insurers with the largest enrollments for 2014 are the ones who offered the lowest, or second-lowest, health insurance prices. Now, having gained market share, these insurers feel that they can raise rates. "



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Liberals Stupid Arguments Against the Hobby Lobby Decision » Eagle Rising

Liberals Stupid Arguments Against the Hobby Lobby Decision » Eagle Rising: "he brilliant Steve Deace has written some good stuff in the past. I mean the man is practically a conservative legend across the nation, but his most recent article really makes me happy. In it he uncovers the idiocy of some of the arguments the liberal Left is making about the Hobby Lobby decision. And boy did someone need to call them out..."



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African-American Republican Offers Perfect Campaign Video » Eagle Rising

African-American Republican Offers Perfect Campaign Video » Eagle Rising: "Here’s another candidate who deserves your support. Alabama Republican Darius Foster is running for a seat in the Alabama State House in a district that is overwhelmingly Democrat. To win, he’ll need a lot of creativity, help and luck. He’s starting the fight pretty strong with his first campaign commercial."



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Hobby Lobby Haters Have No Idea What They’re Against » Eagle Rising

Hobby Lobby Haters Have No Idea What They’re Against » Eagle Rising: "We’ve become used to the inane ramblings of liberals.

Oftentimes, they sound like old drunk men who’ve succumbed to the worst type of dementia… a dementia of the soul.

These liberals hate, not for reason, but for passion.

They have no idea why they hate us, our values and our beliefs – they only know that they do hate them and they hate us."



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What the Supreme Court's Union Dues Ruling Means | Conservative Byte

What the Supreme Court's Union Dues Ruling Means | Conservative Byte: "The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision on Monday that mandatory public union dues violate some members’ First Amendment rights.” In the ruling, “Justice Samuel Alito said that the precedent that had upheld the state of Illinois’ right to require membership dues was shaky."



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UNHINGED: Guardian Columnist Calls For Women To Have Sex Inside Hobby Lobby Stores In protest Of SCOTUS Ruling | LibertyNEWS.com

UNHINGED: Guardian Columnist Calls For Women To Have Sex Inside Hobby Lobby Stores In protest Of SCOTUS Ruling | LibertyNEWS.com: "The level of filth and perversion being spewed in social media in response to the SCOTUS ruling on contraception mandates is staggering. Angry, unhinged radical feminists are so upset that companies cannot be forced to bankroll their $5 a week contraception pills they’re actually calling for public sex acts to occur inside of Hobby Lobby stores."



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NYT: Scientists 'Startled' at Great Lakes' Rise; Another Warmist Prediction Is Biting the Dust | NewsBusters

NYT: Scientists 'Startled' at Great Lakes' Rise; Another Warmist Prediction Is Biting the Dust | NewsBusters: "An undated but clearly recent page at the National Wildlife Federation breathlessly warns readers, in a section entitled "Threats from Global Warming," that "Lake Erie water levels, already below average, could drop 4-5 feet by the end of this century, significantly altering shoreline habitat." A Thursday Huffington Post Canada Business entry observed that "the (Great Lakes) basin has experienced the longest extended period of lower water levels since the U.S. and Canada began tracking levels in 1918." Of course, it's because of "climate change.""



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Megyn Kelly Takes on Bill Ayers: ‘You Sound Like Osama Bin Laden’ | Conservative Byte

Megyn Kelly Takes on Bill Ayers: ‘You Sound Like Osama Bin Laden’ | Conservative Byte: "Megyn Kelly took on domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, in an exclusive interview tonight on “The Kelly File.”

Ayers told Kelly that Weather Underground took credit for slightly more than 20 bombings in a period where there were more than 20,000 bombings in the U.S. in opposition to the Vietnam War."



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Feds to cut road payments | Conservative Byte

Feds to cut road payments | Conservative Byte: "So let’s give people more money to not work, and spend less on infrastructure.
Check it out:

The federal government will start reducing road and transit payments in August, potentially leaving states scrambling to cover the gap."



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