See life in a mining state in a time of economic hardship and government over-regulation. Jobs are hard to find and the government is countering with the Southern Appalachian Labor School, or SALS. This is a job training program in construction. Hear what real West Virginians think about that.

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By Frank McCaffrey — See life in a mining state in a time of economic hardship and government over-regulation. Jobs are hard to find and the government is countering with the Southern Appalachian Labor School, or SALS. This is a job training program in construction. […]

By Bill Wilson — On May 1, 2012, the Occupy movement once again took to the streets, this time to celebrate International Workers’ Day, a leftist, invented holiday that was originally founded to promote Marxist and labor movement ideology . Eventually, it even became a national holiday of the then-Soviet Union to promote the workers’ revolution. The ostensible idea behind the protest, […]

By Rebekah Rast — The wind energy industry got some more hot air knocked out of it recently. Discovery News reports , “wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomenon that could put a damper on efforts to expand […]

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By David Bozeman — Although I have devoted much of my life to preserving America’s defining values and institutions, through activism, party leadership and as a columnist, I have always held a day job.  The ideas I advance, including the ones extolling capitalism, individual initiative […]

By Rick Manning — The monthly release of the nation’s unemployment rate is due out from the U.S. Department of Labor on May 4 amidst a gathering storm of skepticism about the meaning of the reported unemployment rate and gloom about what appears to be a stalling […]