By Peter Fricke Free-market advocates say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wants to treat the symptoms rather than the cause of U.S. businesses seeking lower taxes overseas. Lew is the latest Obama official to make the case for restricting the ability of U.S. companies to merge with foreign companies in order to relocate to lower-tax countries….
By Ryan Lazarus It has become a standard practice for cops to shoot dogs while on the job. There are certainly instances where cops legitimately fear for their safety and draw their weapons, but it appears all to often officers use neighborhood pooches for target practice. It happens on routine non-emergency calls and on thrilling no-knock…
The Freedom Report podcast today examines the issues surrounding the recent court ruling which struck down Washington D.C.’s onerous gun laws. People who have a registered firearm are now allowed to open carry in public in the capital city. The ruling also allows for those who are not citizens of the district with registered firearms…
By Blake Neff Published: July 25, 2014 Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul outlined his views on education reform in a speech to the National Urban League in Cincinnati Friday. The National Urban League is a political advocacy group focused on issues of importance to black Americans in cities, such as racial discrimination and gun violence. While…
Pictured: Carlos Cachari Ticona signing in to lobby for relaxing child labor laws CREDIT: REUTERS Bolivia recently passed a law which reduces the minimum age of employment from 14 years old to 10. The law offers some protections to children who decide to work, such as parents being required to supervise those between 10 and twelve….
By Connor D. Wolf President Obama used his pen and phone to raise the minimum wage for new federal contractors, but a federal workers’ union isn’t satisfied. They ask: Why must the minimum wage hike be limited to new contractors? “It was shameful that so many in the President’s own workforce are forced to work…
By Michael Bastasch Published: July 25, 2014 Climate models relied upon by scientists and governments may be greatly overstating the warming that has occurred since the late 1950s, argues a paper analyzing the discrepancies between modeled and observed temperatures. The paper, which was published in the journal Environmetrics, found that observed temperatures differed greatly from modeled temperatures…
By Jonah Bennett Despite dropping approval ratings, a poll released Friday by CNN/ORC indicates little political will for the impeachment of President Barack Obama. The issue was brought to the forefront most recently by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, also the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. According to the results of the poll, while 45 percent of…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is speaking at the National Urban League Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio today on the subject of civil rights. The Mayor of Baltimore (and secretary of the Democratic National Committee), Stephanie Rawlings-Blake published an op-ed today to counter his speech with the title: “Blacks shouldn’t be fooled by Rand Paul.” She criticizes…
By Jonah Bennett According to President Barack Obama, companies that use cross-border mergers to avoid U.S. taxes are in effect revoking their citizenship, CNN reports. On Thursday, Obama is set to pressure Congress to close corporate tax loopholes, which allow for mergers to take place in familiar tax havens like the Cayman Islands. The process, called…