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August 1, 2018 – Friday morning, 26-year-old software developer David Casarez put on a shirt and tie, grabbed his homemade cardboard sign saying “Homeless — Hungry 4 Success — Take a Resume” and positioned himself at an intersection in Mountain View, Calif. A passerby posted his photo on Twitter. Within a day, Casarez had over

July 26, 2018 – Would you rather show up at work on time or stretch out on the sofa and watch TV? Stupid question. Most people punch a clock out of necessity. But progressive Democrats want to make work optional and guarantee a slew of benefits to everyone, whether they get off the couch or

July 18, 2018 Democrats are so desperate to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the US Supreme Court that they’re resorting to scare tactics, telling Americans that his confirmation would put 130 million people at risk of losing their health insurance. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says Democrats can sink Kavanaugh by showing how his

July 11, 2018 Social-media giants like Twitter and Facebook used to brag about promoting free speech. Now they say they’re taking on a new role — the speech police. Twitter is suspending as many as a million accounts a day, with 70 million silenced in May and June, according to data disclosed Friday. The massive

July 5, 2018 People hoping to settle in the United States wait years for a green card to be legal residents. They play by the rules. Yet these law-abiding newcomers must feel like idiots, watching what’s happening on the southern border. Hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants are walking right in. They’re not waiting

June 28, 2018 Rank-and-file government workers won big over union bosses Wednesday, when the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Mark Janus, an Illinois state worker who refused to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The court struck down an Illinois law that allowed the union to deduct fees

June 21, 2018 What can Democrat Chuck Schumer, Republican Marco Rubio and President Trump agree on? Almost nothing, but they agree China is robbing America blind and has to be stopped. When the president slapped a punishing 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods starting July 6, his unlikely GOP ally, Florida

June 13, 2018 President Trump just signed the Mission Act, which is supposed to help ailing US veterans get prompt care, including the ability to see a civilian doctor on Uncle Sam’s tab. Don’t count on it. The fine print shows that vets are guaranteed nothing. The Veterans Affairs secretary is simply empowered to make