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A U.S. federal probe has found that about a third of American Apparel's factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States. The findings, from a January 2008 federal investigation, may deal a blow to the corporation's image as a proponent of immigration reform. But the company said on Tuesday the potential loss of those 1,800 workers would have no significant impact on its results. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that some 1,600 current employees at American Apparel's Los Angeles factories appeared to...

He joins Castro and Chavez in criticizing the overthrow of looming dictatorship in Honduras! Mata covered the Honduras story here. We had another dictator for life, in the mold of Castro and Venezuela's Chavez seeking to turn that small country into another tinpot dictatorship. The Army, the courts and the Congress acted and tossed the bum out. And yet, Obama, who refuses to meddle when people in Iran are dying in the streets is peddle to the meddle to join some of the worst violators of human rights in the Western hemisphere in condemning Honduras. The cartoon above says it...

Congressman John Conyers Jr has had a very rough week, his wife, a member of the Detroit City Council pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, not only did she have to resign her office but she faces up to five years in prison. She was also implicated in another potential bribery case involving a controversial deep injection waste well near Romulus. Here is the coincidence, in 2003 and 2004, before Monica Conyers was elected, John Conyers and his staff raised environmental concerns about the well project. Monica Conyers' former aide, Sam Riddle, told The...

"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic.. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. Consider what happened recently when I sent an e-mail message to the Berkeley law professor Nancy K. D. Lemon pointing out that the highly praised textbook that she edited, Domestic Violence Law (second edition, Thomson/West, 2005), contained errors. Her reply began: "I appreciate and share your concern for veracity in all of our scholarship. However, I would expect a colleague...

A commercial you'll never see. Wouldn't be bipartisan ya know... In Obama’s economy, at the present rate of job loss… 5 people will lose their jobs before this commercial is over. By this time tomorrow, an additional 15,253 more people will lose their job…. By this time next week, another 91,518 more will be unemployed….. A month from now 473,000 more people will lose their job as well…. Had enough Hope and Change yet?

As California goes the way of the Dodo Bird or the California Condor Creating Orwellian Worldview pauses to conserve energy on this day of California’s sliding into the Pacific Ocean of insolvency. The last person out please turn off the lights!

Three Galaxies in Draco Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Benintende Explanation: This intriguing trio of galaxies is sometimes called the Draco Group, located in the northern constellation of (you guessed it) Draco. From left to right are edge-on spiral NGC 5981, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and face-on spiral NGC 5985 -- all within this single telescopic field of view spanning a little more than half the width of the full moon. While the group is far too small to be a galaxy cluster and has not been cataloged compact group, these galaxies all do lie roughly 100 million light-years from planet...

A new ad from Our Country Deserves Better PAC, a conservative group, attacks President Obama for "misconduct in the recent election." The ad declares it is time to "fight back" against the "leftist policies" of Barack Obama.

"...cultural anthropologists know that most societies not only accept polygamy, but idealise it, while evolutionary geneticists report super-male lineages such as that of Genghis Khan which are incredibly fertile. No one suggests that the conqueror was super-human in size, rather, he illustrates how societies can be converted into a winner-takes-all game. It is not true that Genghis Khan said the best thing in life was "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women." But there is a reason why many find this myth plausible. Civilisation has borne witness to the rise...

Apparently, YouTube doesn't think that a conservative journalist has anything to say to help all you budding citizen journalists out there. A glance at the denizens of the Old Media offered up as journalism experts on the Internet video giant will show a long list of well known lefties with not a single center or center right professional in the mix. On April 30, YouTube set up a channel dedicated to a sort of how-to instruction manual or an online media 101 class that folks interested in becoming citizen journalists can watch to help them learn some of the tricks...

Fixing health care is simple, says Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff, a possible contender for Democrat Chris Dodd’s seat in Congress. "Given our current tax code, the simplest way to bring down medical costs would be to fully tax health care benefits as wages and simultaneously increase the personal deduction by an amount significant enough to neutralize the effect of the tax increase," Schiff writes in Taki Mag. Doing so would accomplish two things. First, the uninsured would get a huge pay increase, enabling them to buy reasonably priced catastrophic policies. Second, those currently insured could opt out of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A powerful House committee chairman with a central role in President Barack Obama's global warming and health care legislation has been hospitalized. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., was not feeling well Tuesday and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for "routine testing," spokeswoman Karen Lightfoot said Wednesday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the last 40 years, dropping into a bar in Utah has been a complicated affair: Patrons have to fill out an application, pay a fee and become a member before they can go in for a drink. It is one of several restrictive rules governing alcohol consumption in Utah that made the heavily Mormon state one of the toughest places in the nation to get a drink. But some of that will change on Wednesday when a new state law kicks in eliminating the need for people to become members of bars to go...

Breaking per Fox Routine test per Waxman's staff.

A new national poll suggests that a bare majority of Americans support President Barack Obama's health care plan. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that most people are worried that their health care costs would go up if the administration's proposals are passed and only one in five think that their families would be better off under the Obama plan. Fifty-one percent of people questioned in the poll say they favor the president's health care plan, with 45 percent opposed. Obama aims to bring down health care costs and provide medical insurance to many of the...

California is on the brink of issuing IOUs and state workers will take a third unpaid furlough day in July after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers failed to strike a budget compromise late Tuesday. By allowing the fiscal year to end without trimming $3.3 billion from the 2008-09 education budget, lawmakers and Schwarzenegger lost the chance to cut spending in a manner considered crucial to bridging the $24 billion deficit. Instead, Senate Republicans, Democrats and the GOP governor remained in a political standoff over other parts of the budget, particularly how much to slash health and welfare programs. Without...

The latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll shows that President Barack Obama for the first time has a negative approval index more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, pollster Scott Rasmussen also disclosed that, if the economy does not improve over the next year, Obama's numbers will deteriorate even further and Democrats will suffer in 2010. Rasmussen is founder and CEO of Rasmussen Reports and co-founder of the sports network ESPN. He has been an independent public opinion pollster for over a decade, and most major news organizations cite his reports. Newsmax.TV's Ashley Martella...

The campaign finance dream team of Sens. Russ Feingold and John McCain is reuniting to block President Barack Obama’s first appointment to the Federal Election Commission and to push him to shake up the embattled agency. In a surprising move that invokes memories of a bitter skirmish during Obama’s annihilation of McCain in last year’s presidential election, Feingold (D-Wis.) and McCain (R-Ariz.) have placed a hold on the FEC nomination of Democratic labor lawyer John Sullivan, POLITICO confirmed Tuesday. Their hold could reverberate in Congress, the White House, the 2010 midterm elections and beyond. In a statement issued in response...

Gov. Deval Patrick has only himself to blame for an embarrassing poll showing a narrow win for Republican rival Christy Mihos, opposing strategists and potential challengers charged yesterday. “Patrick right now is running against himself - and losing,” said political strategist and author Dick Morris, a former top adviser to President Clinton who is working for Mihos. “It shows there’s tremendous vulnerability.”

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Construction spending fell more than expected in May, a sign the problems facing the nation's builders are far from over. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that construction spending dropped 0.9 percent in May, nearly double the 0.5 percent decline that economists expected. Adding to the signs of weakness, activity in the past two months was revised lower. For May, the only strength came in nonresidential activity. Residential construction dropped sharply, and spending on federal, state and local projects also declined. Total public construction dropped 0.6 percent, the biggest decline since a 1.7 percent fall in January. Spending...