A Florida City police officer shot and killed a family pet on video Tuesday morning. The officer, whose name has not been released, approached the Palacios family’s house and knocked on the door to inform them that they had left their car door open. When the family answered the door, Duchess, a bulldog mix, bolted out…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk teamed up with the vast majority of Senate Democrats to block a bill Tuesday that would crack down on sanctuary cities. He was the only Republican to vote against the measure. The bill would increase penalties for illegal immigrants who return to the U.S. after they’re deported, and…
The White House is backing away from comments made by president Obama this week after he declared in an interview that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server does not pose a national security threat. “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” asserted Obama in a recent interview with 60 Minutes. When asked…
By R. Brownell Coming in from the Tenther Blog, Kansas has just proposed a piece of legislation that has now limited the excessive interaction between the state of Kansas and the federal government: No state agency, state agent or state employee shall enter into any agreement, including, but not limited to, cost-sharing agreements and grants, which…
Andrew Follett writes The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently called for countries to start taxing carbon dioxide emissions to finance struggling governments. “It is just the right moment to introduce carbon taxes,” IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at a conference [need to put what day this took place], because “finance ministers are looking for revenues.”…
Some senior U.S. officials involved with the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal are questioning the legality of the agreement after concluding it conflicts with existing federal statutes, according to Fox News. Section 5.1.2 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the formal name of the deal, effectively allows foreign subsidiaries of U.S. parent…
Gowdy Silents Critics: “We’ve Broken New Ground” Trey Gowdy and his select committee on Benghazi seemed to have been thrown under the bus by House Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, when McCarthy had this to say about the investigation: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” McCarthy, who was lined up to be the next speaker, said…
Jonah Bennett on October 8, 2015 Recent experience suggests that in the event of a defense bill standoff between Congress and the White House, the White House tends to win. At least, that’s what’s happened the past four times when the White House threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, according to a new…
Donald Trump Continues to Exemplify Authoritarian Tendencies by Josh Guckert In a Fox News interview with Bret Baier of Special Report on Tuesday, Donald Trump made some of his most surprising comments yet on the proper role of government. Most notably, he defended the near-universally despised eminent domain program which allows the government to confiscate land from…
From IMDB: A young, idealistic woman buys a small farm in Paris, Virginia, fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming an organic farmer, only to discover that corruption lurks just below the surface in Fauquier County. From The Chalres Koch Institute: At first glance, a Virginia farm and the city of Las Vegas may appear to…