“We have no cash left.” This was the alarming statement made by Governor Alejandro Padilla of Puerto Rico to the U.S. Senate. The worrying remarks from Padilla certainly seem accurate: Puerto Rico has more than $72 billion worth of debt —almost 100 per cent of its total annual economic output — and an estimated $30…
Amy Goodman, the Executive Producer of Democracy Now! has argued for “a progressive tax… that taxes people according to their ability.” Goodman went on to say, “Wealthier people make much more use of the resource of this country, an if poorer people had more money, they would put that money back into the economy. We…
By Connor D. Wolf The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to request Monday that a recent court decision to block a statewide right-to-work law be put on hold. Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Foust ruled Apr. 8 that right-to-work is unconstitutional. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel disagreed with the decision and plans to appeal it…
By Chris White NASA claimed Friday that part of its role in social media is to target and correct certain “end of the world-type” comments on Facebook before they go viral and terrify the masses. The claim comes after NASA was caught criticizing a random man-made global warming skeptic on Facebook for supposedly misrepresenting the…
By Chris White Tesla Motors wants mining companies that have never produced highly combustible lithium to provide the electric vehicle maker the material necessary to make its lithium ion battery. A report from Financial Post states that Tesla and two companies, Pure Energy Minerals Limited and Bacanora Minerals, are currently in talks to mine more lithium material…
By Jonah Bennett Anti-Muslim rhetoric should be stopped at once, as it threatens U.S. national security, RAND Corporation Senior Economist Radha Iyengar said Wednesday in an op-ed for War on the Rocks. For Iyengar, the rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States is facilitated by constant media coverage, as well as politicians looking to cynically…
By Guy Bentley The House Committee on Appropriations could be the last line of defense against Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation that will wreck the e-cigarette industry. The FDA regulation, expected to be announced imminently, will require all e-cigarette products that came on the market since February of 2007 (predicate date) to undergo a…
By Richard Pollock Hillary Clinton’s Department of State awarded at least $13 million in grants, contracts and loans to her longtime friend and Clinton Foundation donor Muhammad Yunus, despite his being ousted in 2011 as managing director of the Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank amid charges of corruption, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News…
By Jonah Bennett The international media fawned over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his supposedly intelligent remarks at a press conference Friday about quantum computing, which according to many outlets, makes him more than “just a pretty face.” But in reality, Trudeau seeded the question in advance and then gave nothing more than a grade-school…
By Casey Harper A man who allegedly fatally shot one Maryland firefighter and wounded another was released from police custody with no charges, police said Saturday. A worried man called authorities Friday fearing his 61-year-old diabetic brother had a blackout or seizure inside the home, the Washington Post reports. When two Prince George’s County firefighters responded to the scene, no one…