Luke Rosiak A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) worker fired for bringing a stun gun to work and repeatedly discharging it claims everyone else in her office just watches TV all day, so she doesn’t understand why she’s being singled out for rare discipline. The office in question is the “Non-VA Purchased Care Support Office,”…
By Richard Pollock Three of the top four officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have jumped from CFPB to lucrative posts representing financial services industry firms their former agency regulates, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The latest of the departures is Quyen Truong, formerly deputy general counsel, who accepted a position…
By Jonah Bennett After a long battle, the Senate finally confirmed Eric Fanning as 22nd Secretary of the Army, making him the first openly gay civilian head of the service in history. The final hold on Fanning’s confirmation broke after GOP Sen. Pat Roberts relented and moved the process forward, Defense News reports. Roberts delayed Fanning’s confirmation because he…
As someone who has been writing about the cannabis community and industry for the past several years, it has been interesting to watch the evolution of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) on the issue of recreational marijuana legalization. When Governor Hickenlooper was up for reelection in 2014 he called Colorado’s legalization “reckless” and warned other…
Pundits are declaring Trump’s win in Oregon as some sort of major victory. Truth is, despite being the only candidate in the race, more than 30% of the GOP voters decided they would rather cast their ballot for a candidate no longer running. How this is supposed to signal the GOP getting behind Trump is…
Petersen, Johnson & McAfee Face Off One More Time Before The LP Convention By Avens O’Brien The last Libertarian Party presidential debate before the National Convention took place on Monday in Las Vegas. I was fortunate to be able to attend, and managed to “live-tweet” the experience extensively. The event was hosted by the Libertarian…
The Libertarian Perspective By Lee Enochs “For the best government is the least amount of government.” After watching last night’s debate between Libertarian presidential contenders Austin Petersen, Gary Johnson and John McAfee, I realized that Austin Petersen is the true heir to Ron Paul’s Libertarian legacy and not Johnson or McAfee. I also believe…
As a Libertarian, I have proudly mixed feelings about the transgender bathroom controversy now raging across America. On one hand, I do not want to see any American discriminated against, I do believe the Obama administration is acting very imperialistic in the way it is handling this sensitive issue. Last Friday, the Obama administration issued,…
By Jonah Bennett The United States decided Monday it wants to provide arms to the Libyan government, just five years after overthrowing the regime and accidentally providing weapons to Islamic militants. Several other countries have joined the U.S. in asking the United Nations to grant an exemption to the five-year-old arms shipment ban currently imposed on…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Senate used money from benefit cuts to military veterans in the 2016 budget to pay for the resettlement of an additional 3,000 Afghan interpreters in the United States. A dispute over a similar pay-for plan is behind the Judiciary Committee’s refusal to expand the program again in the 2017 budget. The Special Immigrant…