Recent Election Trends Show Disdain for Big Government By Pia Varma What yesterday’s Presidential election has proven more than anything else,is that people are sick of government corruption and bureaucracy. Whether Donald Trump is the right man for the job or not is irrelevant. For all his plethora of faults, the fact of the matter is…
By Joe Klare Election Day is tomorrow. Are you voting for Trump or Hillary? Never mind, I don’t care and your vote is statistically meaningless and little is going to change. But there are some states where your vote can actually mean something. In some states, voters will be deciding on marijuana legalization. And I’m…
by Kitty Testa According to the Innocence Project, “Astonishingly, more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.” Most of us believe that we would never confess to a crime we did not commit, but many people are unable to stand up…
By Joe Klare A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) shows just how many people are being arrested for simple drug possession, marijuana in particular. More than one of nine arrests by state law enforcement are for drug possession, amounting to more than 1.25 million arrests per…
Lack of US Leadership in Syria is Devastating! by Darnyell Wint The ongoing plight of Syrians is catastrophic. The bombs are relentless, with no sign of a humanitarian pause coming anytime soon. The State Department has even suspended bilateral talks with Russia on implementing a sustaining ceasefire. According to John Kirby, Spokesman for the State…
by Blake Neff Minnesota will let health insurers increase their rates by at least 50 percent next year to protect the state’s Obamacare health insurance individual market from “collapse,” the state announced Friday. The announcement came from Minnesota commerce commissioner Mike Rothman, who explained bluntly that the state’s individual market was barely staying afloat. “The Commerce…
by Micah J. Fleck Veteran Affairs is just another bad government body with incoherent, inefficient methods of doing things. Nowhere is that more clear than in this most recent case, where Chicago’s Edward Hines Jr. VA hospital was found mishandling cadavers. Reports Tribunist: The Department of Veterans Affairs can’t seem to keep up with the burden…
by Micah J. Fleck According to a new interview with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. foreign policy in Syria now involves a plan to overthrow the dictatorship there through Jihadi extremist groups. As a result, the U.S. is, according to Lavrov, refusing to separate these extremists from the moderate rebel forces in an attempt…
by Kody Fairfield Republican Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul has come out swinging at the “use it or lose it” philosophy on government spending in a conversation with The Daily Caller News Foundation. Paul argued that the government should encourage fiscal responsibility in its agencies by spending less in federal dollars, instead of championing frivolous spending for…
By Kody Fairfield According to a new report from a government watchdog group with oversight, and as reported on by Fox News, it appears that less than 1 out of 5 employees who had security clearance in the United States State Department never finished the mandatory information training for handling classified information. Based on training records obtained from the Foreign Service…