Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Top Stories of 2014...

◼ Top 10 political stories of 2014 - The Hill


◼ “When news breaks, and it broke quite a bit this year, Twitter and other social media is increasingly the place we check first.” - Heritage

◼ What Your Tweets Tell Us About the Year’s Biggest Stories - Daily Signal
In the whirlwind of the daily news cycle, stories come and go abruptly, moving faster than ever before. But in what may appear a clutter of events are those gripping stories that kept us talking, namely on Twitter.


◼ The 10 best cars of 2014. - LA Times

◼ How Progressive Was Hollywood in 2014? - Tom Weiss/PJ Media
"A vast majority of the writers, directors and stars may call the far left edge of the political spectrum home, but their most successful movies, at least of 2014, don’t," writes Tom Weiss.

What was your favorite movie from this year?
◼ The Seven Biggest Liberal Fails Of 2014 - W. JAMES ANTLE III/Daily Caller
Want to get your New Year started off right? Let’s recap 2014′s biggest blunders from the left. (Why only seven? Our time is limited.)

7. The child migrant crisis at the border....
6. The Democrats’ abortion obsession backfired....
5. France was forced to abandon its “super-tax” on the rich....
4. Vermont had to shelve its single-payer health care system....
3. The spending cuts that didn’t cause a recession.... KEEP READING
2. All things Gruber. Forget HealthCare.gov. Health care policy wonk Jonathan Gruber went from being the architect of Obamacare to its one-man wrecking crew. Gruber was caught admitting transparency would have killed Obamacare, thanks to the stupidity of the American voter. He suggested premium subsidies would in fact be limited to the state-based exchanges. He acknowledged Obamacare wouldn’t control costs, an admission he once made of his previous project, Romneycare. He said it “wasn’t supposed to” control costs.

1. Republicans won in November. Not only did Republicans recapture the Senate, after failing to do so in 2010 and 2012. Republicans will hold the governorship in Democratic states like Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois. Troubled incumbent GOP governors won reelection in Kansas, Maine, Florida and Wisconsin. Republicans held Ohio in a landslide. Republicans will control 69 of 99 state legislative chambers, a record high.
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California Policy Center's 2014 Top 20 Countdown of the MOST READ articles and studies of the last 12 months:
◼ California’s Most Financially Stressed Cities and Counties - California Policy Center #1 MOST READ OF 2014
◼ City of Redondo Beach Fights Unions – Full-time Firefighters Make $220,990 Total Compensation - California Policy Center #2
◼ Transparency Website Shows True Cost of Unionized Government in California - California Policy Center #3
◼ The Differences Between Public and Private Sector Unions - California Policy Center #4
◼ Unaffordable California – It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way - California Policy Center #5
◼ Evaluating Total Unfunded Public Employee Retirement Liabilities in 20 California Counties - California Policy Center #6
◼ How Much Do Los Angeles Police Officers Make? - California Policy Center #7
◼ How Much Do California’s State, City and County Workers Really Make? - California Policy Center #8
◼ How Much Do CalPERS Retirees Really Make? - California Policy Center #9
◼ Calculating California’s Total State and Local Government Debt - California Policy Center #10
◼ California’s “Prevailing Wage” – Floor Vacuuming at $45.93/Hour - California Policy Center #11
◼ The Average Orange County Firefighter’s Total Compensation is $234,000 per Year - California Policy Center #12
◼ Comparing CalSTRS Pensions to Social Security Retirement Benefits - California Policy Center #13
◼ The Ideology of Public Sector Unions vs. Private Sector Unions - California Policy Center #14
◼ California vs. Texas in one chart - California Policy Center #15
◼ The Fall of Pacific Grove – How it Began, and How City Officials Fought Reform - California Policy Center #16
◼ $170,000+ Average Pay & Benefits for Full-time Employees of Small California Town - California Policy Center #17
◼ Unions Extensively Interfere with California Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Permitting - California Policy Center #18
◼ How Much Do CalSTRS Retirees Really Make? - California Policy Center #19
◼ Evaluating Public Safety Pensions in California - California Policy Center #20
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◼ Watch the 6 Best Ads of 2014 - Daily Signal
◼ 15 Must-See Charts From 2014 - Daily Signal
◼ The Top News Stories of 2014 in 47 Captivating Photos - Daily Signal
◼ The Most Biased Media Moments of 2014 - Daily Signal

◼ Your top 10 stories of 2014 - Allen West
◼ 10.Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read. This one is very recent – but it confronts issues of race and culture that make people very uncomfortable, for good reason.
◼ 9. ISIS at the Mexican border: US attack imminent?
◼ 8.Exclusive: Confidential source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi Americans still need answers.
◼ 7. Mark Cuban, Stephen A. Smith and the dirty little secret about blacks and racism. Did I ever mention liberal hypocrisy?
◼ 6. Green Beret clarifies difference between war and twitter for Gwyneth Paltrow. Oh Gwyneth. You and your fellow Hollywood liberal elites just don’t get it.
◼ 5. ISIS is beheading children: Obama drops two bombs.
◼ 3. Folks, you’re missing the point about Donald Sterling.
◼ 2. Bombshell: Bowe Bergdahls’s fathers first words at the White House were Arabic.
◼ 1.Christian Grammy nominee walked out of the show – I don’t blame her one bit.






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