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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…
By Kathryn Watson House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members will mark up legislation Tuesday to give the Government Accounting Office (GAO) vastly expanded authority to conduct deep audits of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act sponsored by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie directs the Comptroller General of the United States, who…
By Juliegrace Brufke Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said the Federal Reserve should bail out Puerto Rico in the way it bailed out major banks during the financial crisis at a town hall hosted in San Juan Monday. “If the Federal Reserve could bail out Wall Street, it can help the 3.5 million American citizens…
By JP Carroll The German government has published an online sex manual for migrants, teaching them how not to commit sexual assaults, while also offering health and legal advice. “The site, which cost the German Federal Center for Health Education $136,000 to create, is intended to help bridge the gap between the typically reserved Middle Eastern attitudes…
By Steve Birr A decision to rename the George Mason University School of Law after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be voted on Tuesday and is drawing opposition from Democrats in Virginia. After receiving a $10 million grant in late March from the Charles Koch Foundation and an anonymous $20 million grant with…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will be the first Republican to co-sponsor a bill to block a pending judicial rule change that would dramatically expand the FBI’s hacking authority. The bill, which is expected to come out sometime this week, would seek to undo changes done to Rule 41 by the Supreme Court. He joins Senator Ron…
Burlington College is Going Under Because of Jane Sanders’ Debt Burlington College announced on May 16th that it will be closing by the end of next week. The primary reason for it’s closure was “the crushing weight of the debt” racked up by wife of Bernie Sanders, Jane O’Meara Sanders, during her time as president…
By Jonah Bennett Military analyst Elaine Donnelly has criticized GOP Sen. John McCain for inserting a provision to force women to sign up for the draft in the Senate version of the annual defense bill. “People who support both women and military readiness will be surprised and disappointed to know that behind closed doors, Senate…
The Obama DOJ is stepping into the middle of the fight over transgender accommodation. by Joey Clark The Obama administration has called on public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice based upon a student’s chosen gender identity. ABC News reports: As a condition of receiving federal funds, “a school…