Juliegrace Brufke In a 75-20 vote Thursday, the Senate agreed to place a permanent ban on state and local Internet taxes. A provision in a larger bipartisan customs bill – the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act – that would force states to phase out the tax by 2020. Congress had passed a number of…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio expressed support for drafting women at the GOP debate over the weekend, but he has since said he will co-sponsor a bill that would entrench the current male-only draft requirement, unless Congress expressly expands it to include females, as well. “I do believe selective service should…
Juliegrace Brufke Martin Shkreli, the controversial former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, offered rapper Kanye West $10 million Thursday to refrain from releasing his album publicly. The notorious “pharma bro” – who was widely criticized for marking up a life-saving drug used to treat cancer and AIDS by 5000 percent – took heat for spending $2 million on the…
This documentary remained unseen for 25 years and now you can watch it here. Trump: Whats’s the Deal? takes a hard look at Trump during his hay day. It’s a damning examination of a man who has no character.
To vote or not to vote: that is the question in our hands. Which of the two is more like the art of onanism? Joey Clark [dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]eing one who usually finds it absurd to vote for the Presidency, election day often leaves me with a peculiar feeling I can only compare to a…
By Russ Read Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave a grim warning that failure to resolve the conflict in Syria could result in a “new world war.” “The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war?” Lavrov said to German newspaper Handelsblatt Thursday, “all sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating…
Kathryn Watson Federal bureaucrats who break the law or waste tax dollars almost never have to worry about being named in public records, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. Six of the top inspectors general (IG) — presidentially-appointed watchdogs tasked with fighting waste, fraud and abuse in the federal bureaucracy — withheld the…
The United Nations carbon dioxide emissions deal of 2015 may not be enough to exert any meaningful impact on projected global warming. A new report by the oil giant BP shows CO2 emissions significantly growing, despite huge gains in energy efficiency and countries forcing more green energy onto the grid. It looks like economic growth in developing…
Chris White President Barack Obama’s FY 2017 federal budget repeals oil and gas revenue sharing payments and uses a portion of the money to relocate coastal Alaskan communities supposedly ravaged by “climate change,” prompting global warming alarmists to sing his praises. The Washington Post’s environmental reporter, Chris Mooney, told his readers Tuesday the move to…
An Italian man is accusing his wife of “bad management of domestic affairs” after not properly cleaning the house and allowing groceries to go to waste. Accoding to USA Today: An Italian wife faces prison after her husband claimed she abused him by not cleaning and cooking enough, European media reported. The husband claimed his 40-year-old…