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L.A. County tops in factory jobs

Los Angeles Times (CA)

by Walter Hamilton

October 23, 2007

There are 808,000 factory jobs in the five-county Southern California region, making up a bit more than 11% of the region's total employment, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Taken by itself, Southern California's manufacturing base would rank third among states, after California as a whole and Texas. Los Angeles County is the nation's largest manufacturing center, with 462,300 jobs, topping Chicago by more than 72,000.

Passing Obamacare the Chicago Way

PJ Media

by Walter Hudson

June 1, 2012

Big Pharma told to support passage of Obamacare, "or else."

Here's an outrage: sleazy government officials approach a major business interest and want to enter into "negotiations." The officials casually mention, "You've got a nice little business here. It would be a shame if something happened to it." Both sides know the business needs permits to operate, current regulations could be changed or delayed and the bureaucracy's normally glacial pace could begin to approach that of plate tectonics. All it takes is a little ill will on the government side and costs and delays start to escalate for the business side. And there's no one to complain to for obvious reasons.

New Jersey gun laws: felony for possession of antique flintlock

overlawyered.com

by Walter Olson

February 15, 2015

Gordon VanGilder, a 72 year old retired schoolteacher, now faces felony charges for possessing a 225 year old flintlock pistol.

Because the right to trial is an anachronism?

More Green Madness On the Plains

blogs.the-american-interest.com

by Walter Russell Mead

August 25, 2011

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil from tar sands in Canada across the entire midwestern United States to Port Arthur, Texas.

It could eventually transport 900,000 barrels of oil a day and without government funding of any kind has the potential to create 20,000 jobs starting early in 2012. The greens want President Obama to kill it of course; the political blindness and the wishful thinking that so frequently vitiates green policy proposals is fully on display. Let's summarize the different sides of the argument...

Bank Breaks Into Woman's House, Destroys All of Her Belongings... And It Was The Wrong House

mrconservative.com

by Warner Todd Huston

July 25, 2013

If you haven't paid your bills there is expectation that you can lose everything, of course.

But what if you are not behind in your bills, but a bank that isn't your bank breaks into your house, hauls away your belongings, changes your locks, all claiming you owe them money? And what happens when the bank realizes it got the wrong house? Worse, how would you feel if the bank refuses to pay you back for its destruction of all your belongings? Well, that is what happened to an Ohio woman.

Obama Signs Executive Decree Allowing Himself To Shut Down All U.S. Communications

mrconservative.com

by Warner Todd Huston

July 12, 2013

It seems like every day this president is looking to grab more power for himself. This time he's attempting to take on the power to take over all communications in the country in the case of an emergency.

Now, one assumes that by "emergency" Obama means "threats to his power," but there you have it. According to Marilyn Daly of Examiner.com, Obama signed an executive order expecting to give the Department of Homeland Security the power to shut everything down just when you'd think that we as citizens would need information the most; during a crisis. The EO is titled the Assignment of National Security Emergency Preparedness Communications Function.

Perino: Media Rallied Behind Woodward When Bush Admin Criticized Him

breitbart.com

by Warner Todd Huston

February 28, 2013

In an appearance on Fox News, former Bush White House Press Secretary Dana Perino noted that when the Bush team tried to push back against Bob Woodward's reporting, it "failed miserably" because the media rallied behind the iconic journalist.

Yet now, after harsh words about Obama, Woodward is being treated like a pariah by that same media. With Bob Woodward in the news over his report that someone in the Obama administration threatened that he'd "regret" writing so harshly about the President, Fox News talked about how the Bush administration dealt with the famed Washington Post reporter.

Chris Matthews on Obama's SOTU: 'There's Nothing Lefty in Here'

breitbart.com

by Warner Todd Huston

February 14, 2013

President Obama's State of the Union speech was yet another opportunity to demand a new laundry list of big government programs and massive spending, but MSNBC's Chris Matthews seemed to have some trouble seeing anything "liberal" in it.

As he analyzed the speech during his February 13 broadcast, Matthews told Chuck Todd that he truly couldn't see any overtly leftist. "There's nothing lefty in here. What's the left-wing part? Objectively, was there a left wing piece to this speech last night? I mean, truly left? I didn't see it," he said. Still, even in his denial a bit of truth broke through Matthews' partisanship: "I mean, basically, he was moving the ball maybe one foot to the left of the midfield."

NPR Falsely Claims GOP Invented Sequestration

breitbart.com

by Warner Todd Huston

February 12, 2013

Ahead of the President's State of the Union speech, taxpayer funded National Public Radio (NPR) tried to help the White House push the false notion that the sequestration budget cuts was conceived by Republicans.

The fact is, sequestration was invented by President Obama and pushed by Harry Reid and House Democrats, not Republicans. It is certainly true that the GOP agreed to the plan, but they did not "invent" sequestration. Even often left-leaning "fact checker" PolitiFact noted that Obama was the one that invented the sequestration budget conceit and rated "mostly false" any claim to the contrary.

Koch Industries Responds to 'Misleading' UK Articles

breitbart.com

by Warner Todd Huston

February 7, 2013

Koch Industries recently published a response to the work of UK Independent journalist Steve Connor, whose work, Koch says, "misled readers." The two articles accused Koch Industries of secretly funding attacks on climate change.

The articles written by Connor "got many facts about Koch wrong," according to the open letter published on the company's website. Koch was also unhappy that the British newspaper edited down its letter to the paper without their knowledge, "censoring key information and important context." The accusatory pieces were titled "Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science" and "Top climate scientist denounces billionaires over funding for climate-sceptic organisations," published on January 24 and 25 respectively. Koch's open letter pointedly said that the articles were "predictable in repeating tired and debunked partisan accusations" about their company and said journalist Connor essentially started with a premise and went on to "prove" his claims, "offering readers just one side of the story."

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