By Kathryn Watson House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members will mark up legislation Tuesday to give the Government Accounting Office (GAO) vastly expanded authority to conduct deep audits of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act sponsored by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie directs the Comptroller General of the United States, who…
By Michael Bastasch Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker told a D.C.-based libertarian think tank he would be withdrawing a subpoena he sent the group in April as part of a broader investigation into ExxonMobil’s global warming stance — and in the same email threatened more legal actions against the group. “Attorney General Walker’s subpoena…
By Juliegrace Brufke Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said the Federal Reserve should bail out Puerto Rico in the way it bailed out major banks during the financial crisis at a town hall hosted in San Juan Monday. “If the Federal Reserve could bail out Wall Street, it can help the 3.5 million American citizens…
By JP Carroll The German government has published an online sex manual for migrants, teaching them how not to commit sexual assaults, while also offering health and legal advice. “The site, which cost the German Federal Center for Health Education $136,000 to create, is intended to help bridge the gap between the typically reserved Middle Eastern attitudes…
By Steve Birr A decision to rename the George Mason University School of Law after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be voted on Tuesday and is drawing opposition from Democrats in Virginia. After receiving a $10 million grant in late March from the Charles Koch Foundation and an anonymous $20 million grant with…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will be the first Republican to co-sponsor a bill to block a pending judicial rule change that would dramatically expand the FBI’s hacking authority. The bill, which is expected to come out sometime this week, would seek to undo changes done to Rule 41 by the Supreme Court. He joins Senator Ron…
Burlington College is Going Under Because of Jane Sanders’ Debt Burlington College announced on May 16th that it will be closing by the end of next week. The primary reason for it’s closure was “the crushing weight of the debt” racked up by wife of Bernie Sanders, Jane O’Meara Sanders, during her time as president…
“Many ‘trends’ reported in the media or proclaimed in politics likewise depend entirely on which year has been chosen as the beginning of the trend.” – Dr. Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics, p. 360 It’s reefer madness in America as fear mongers look to push back against the inevitable coming of legal marijuana. Are fatal car…
By Blake Neff A controversy has erupted at Dartmouth College after a pro-police display was torn down by Black Lives Matter activists, who denounced it for memorializing the “perpetrators” of “state violence.” In honor of National Police Week (which falls May 15-21), Dartmouth’s College Republicans reserved a bulletin board at the Collis Center and used…
By Casey Harper A new video shows Seattle University students struggling to say how men and women are different, if they’re even different at all. The Family Policy Institute of Washington released a video this week where it interviewed students at Seattle University about gender identity and transgender bathrooms. The students soon struggle to explain how gender is…