Juliegrace Brufke The Senate passed a measure Tuesday aimed at stopping a Department of Labor regulation critics fear will limit low- and-middle income Americans from seeking retirement advice. “This rule will reduce the availability of investment advice for retirees and make the advice that is available more expensive. Higher costs and a more burdensome system also means more expenses…
Veterans Affair Secretary Robert McDonald compared the time veterans wait to receive healthcare at the VA to the waiting times at Disney World. He said that his agency shouldn’t use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn’t. “When you go to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in…
I support Gary Johnson for the LP nomination because I want a candidate who has experience and a solid record of making an impact. I realize he isn’t perfect and I don’t support some of his platform, but he is the best damn choice we have. Unlike the rest of the LP candidates, Johnson is…
By Connor D. Wolf Former McDonald’s President Ed Rensi warned Tuesday that replacing workers with robots is far less costly than hiring new employees at $15 an hour. Democratic lawmakers and advocates from across the country have fought to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Those in support believe the policy could help…
By Bruce Cohen If you haven’t heard of Mary Matalin, you haven’t been paying attention. At least, not to politics. Her Website www.Matalin.info says this about her: …served under President Ronald Reagan, made her marks George H.W. Bush’s Campaign director and most recently as assistant to President George W. Bush, and as assistant and counselor to Vice…
By Richard Pollock A little known Swedish-Canadian oil and mining conglomerate human rights groups have repeatedly charged produces “blood minerals” is among the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donors, thanks to a $100 million pledge in 2007, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. “Blood minerals” are related to “blood diamonds,” which are allegedly mined in war zones or…
By Russ Read Iranian state media makes a constant point to push Sen. Bernie Sanders to the masses, but Iranians are quite worried about the possibility of a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency. No prior U.S. election has infatuated Iran as much as the 2016 U.S. presidential race, according to Nasser Karimi, an Associated Press journalist based…
By Connor D. Wolf White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz denounced a plan Friday to let Puerto Rico set a minimum wage for younger works below federal standards. Puerto Rico faces profound fiscal problems over its growing $70 billion in debt. Congressional lawmakers introduced a measure Wednesday aimed at getting the region out of financial…
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…
First published on The Liberty Conservative Is it just me, or have people lost sight of the concept that a private organization is just that– private? They can make their own rules as they see fit, that is until a progressive’s feeling get hurt and they make it their crusade to tackle the private organizations and all who…