Year: 2016

Juliegrace Brufke   The Obama administration’s lack of clear leadership and push to launch HealthCare.gov on schedule despite clear concerns led to the website’s disastrous roll out, a Tuesday report from the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services concluded. Users trying to purchase insurance through the federal marketplace – which continues to face challenges – experienced a slew of…

Andrew Follett   The mining and coal industries lost tens of thousands of jobs last year alone according to federal data, mostly due to federal regulations and low-priced natural gas. Mark Perry, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, aggregated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics into a chart. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics data aggregated by American…

Immigrants are a Benefit, Not a Detriment by Ben Ramanauskas The Republican Presidential debates have been dominated by one topic: immigration. The majority of the candidates have attempted to outdo each other with their anti-immigrant rhetoric. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two front-runners, have both promised to build a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico….

Juliegrace Brufke   In a letter written to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, GOP members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary said they won’t hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s expected nomination to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat in the wake of his death. Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa in addition to…

by Ben Ramanauskas On May 31, 1980, three gang members stormed into the Hong Kong apartment of a prostitute, Madame Lam.  She was to be the primary witness at the trio’s murder trial. One of the gangsters had rang Madam Lam’s doorbell in the afternoon and thinking he was a client, her husband—as he habitually did—withdrew…