By Michael Bastasch The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed a libertarian think tank after pledging to investigate ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public about global warming. AG Claude Walker served the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based free market think tank, with a subpoena Thursday, in an apparent effort to tie the…
Juliegrace Brufke The Department of the Treasury is expected to move on a rule proposed in 2014 requiring banks to look into the identities of those who hold shell company accounts in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers. The leak of more than 11.5 million confidential documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca exposes a number…
Luke Rosiak A federal agency will be breaking the law unless two of its top Obama administration appointees repay many months of their salaries to taxpayers after barring another federal employee from telling Congress how higher-ups were allowing multi-million dollar frauds as part of a political deal. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined Tuesday that the two…
Juliegrace Brufke If you don’t have a bank account or credit card and still need to pay taxes, local 7-Elevens will now accept cash payments. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Wednesday it was introducing the new option allowing individuals to make payments at 7,000 locations in 34 states across the nation. The agency partnered with ACI Worldwide’s…
by Lina Bryce According to a new study, the cost for one of the most important treatments for diabetes, insulin, rose by nearly 200 percent between 2002 and 2013. Researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that other diabetes medications have also increased in price, but that total spending on insulin in…
Yesterday I wrote a piece about a California assemblywoman who wants to set up supervised clinics where hard drug addicts can consume those drugs safely. I was of the opinion that taxpayer money should not be used for something like this and that private means of financing the program would be worth looking at. The article generated an…
The President, the Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the rest of the smarty pants experts can sing along with Jiminy Cricket, wishing upon a star to their hearts desire; but I hope they know when their dream comes true, it will unfortunately look like the nightmare they are trying to escape. by Joey Clark …
A Minneapolis road rage incident is under investigation after a female driver was hit by gun fire. The woman was reportedly cut off in rush hour traffic on Hennepin Avenue and reacted by honking her horn. The other vehicle pulled up beside her and the passenger reportedly fired into her car, hitting her once in the…
Casey Harper A researcher and a professor from Harvard University called for a national “pee-in” movement by LGBT activists to protest the recent LGBT bills in North Carolina and Mississippi. The article, published in a pro-LGBT magazine Wednesday, is written by Harvard Professor of law Bruce Hay and Mischa Haider, a researcher who describes herself as a “trans…
by Lina Bryce Actors portraying Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump debate border chickens and even their likeness to Jesus on @Midnight With with Chris Hardwick and it was indeed, hilarious! The March 23rd skit portraying Sanders and Trump played by actors James Admomian and Anthony Atamanuik might be the most believable impersonations to date. “I’m telling you, that’s an immigrant chicken, I’m…