By Michael Bastasch Liberal billionaire Warren Buffett would do anything to lower the tax rate of his company Berkshire Hathaway, including building unprofitable wind turbines to get federal government tax credits. “I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate,” Buffett told an audience in Omaha, Nebraska this…
By Michael Bastasch Climate scientists have said the White House’s National Climate Assessment (NCA) resembles pseudoscience more than actual science. The National Climate Data Center released its third NCA on Tuesday, which warns of an ever-worsening environment and extreme temperature rises due to man-made carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. But it has been panned in…
By Brendan Bordelon MSNBC will apologize for an allegedly racist segment depicting a sombrero-wearing, tequila-guzzling Mexican on the morning of Cinco de Mayo, after the president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists demanded the network make amends. The offending clip aired Monday morning at 7 AM, just as MSNBC host Thomas Robert’s “Way Too…
Senator Rand Paul has been described as many things, a constitutional conservative, a Republican, and a libertarian. But is he any of these things, or a mixture of all?
By Sarah Hurtubise A survey of health care benefits managers found that most expect Obamacare to raise the cost of health care, The Hill reports. A poll by PlanSource, a health care software provider, found that of 266 health care benefits decision-makers, including chief financial officers, human resources officers and benefits managers, 60 percent believe the health…
By Chuck Ross A new video shows a leader of the Islamic terror organization Boko Haram saying that Allah commands the group to sell the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls it kidnapped last month as slaves.“I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,” said Boko Haram leader Abubaker Shekau in a video…
New Mexico police officer Charles Vernier was arrested after choking a repo truck driver for eight minutes when he tried to repossess the cop’s car. Los Lunas police arrested Vernier on charges of aggravated battery and interference with a police officer. When police arrived at the scene, Vernier was spotted with the repo driver under…
By Breanna Deutsch The Yosemite National Park Service is telling visitors to leave their unmanned aircraft systems at home. [contextly_auto_sidebar id=”pwyuNN6Ddhsz5ZXkkezB1NA0d8WqEkq2″] Last week, Yosemite National Park officials released a statement notifying tourists that drones are banned from being used within the park’s boundaries. The statement said drones have been witnessed “filming climbers ascending climbing routes, filming…
By Brendan Bordelon Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum dismissed Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul’s 2016 presidential ambitions, claiming “the Republican Party is not a libertarian party” and suggesting few GOP voters would be swayed by Paul’s small government message. Santorum swiped at the senator Monday during an appearance on CNN’s “Crossfire,” where he told…
By Brendan Bordelon Vice President Joe Biden promised during a speech that the Obama administration would stop all deportations of illegal immigrants, telling a heckling immigration activist that “we’ll do that too, kid.” The vice president spoke Saturday at the graduation ceremony for Miami Dade College in Florida. CNN rebroadcast a portion of his commencement…