Andrew Follett The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may have asked German car maker Volkswagen (VW) to build electric vehicles and a network of charging stations in the U.S. to atone for selling cars designed to cheat government-mandated emissions tests, according to unsourced reports in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The reports state the EPA is…
Andrew Follett The Russian news website Rus2Web is spreading awareness about the country’s reliance on high oil prices by making it into a retro video game. The game explicitly states that current oil prices are too low to support Russia’s government budget, economy and the strength of the Russian ruble. Any score below $90 dollars a barrel…
Guy Bentley The British people will decide for the first time in 40 years on Jun. 23 whether the country will remain in the European Union or whether it will leave and forge a new path outside the EU. “Britain will be permanently out of ever-closer union — never part of a European super-state,”…
Connor D. Wolf The smartphone app Tinder usually attracts young adults looking for random hookups, but some political advocates think it’s a great way to feel the Bern. Graduate student Jessica Garafola first started using the app in October to support Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. She documented her unique form of advocacy on a Tumblr…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, David Cay Johnston, has been covering 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump for “decades,” according to a recently resurfaced report, and now has enough evidence to pose a question to the billionaire mogul-turned-politician: How close is he to the Mob? The Federalist reported last year: Trump was building his eponymous empire of…
Connor D. Wolf A Massachusetts-based business professor, who supports raising the minimum wage, is urging lawmakers to proceed with caution as his state and others move to a $15 an hour minimum wage. Endicott College Professor Robert Chambers argues policies that raise the minimum wage can do a lot to address income inequality. The problem,…
By JP Carroll President Rafael Correa of Ecuador will not be running for re-election as the leader of his oil rich OPEC member country which he has ledsince 2007 and is facing economic turmoil due to low global oil prices. The country’s National Electoral Council announced Feb. 19 that elections would be held a year from…
By Andrew Follett Obama’s proposed oil tax would do a tremendous amount of damage to the economy, according to a recent report. A report published Tuesday by the conservative Tax Foundation found Obama’s plan to slap a $10 tax on each barrel of oil would kill 137,000 American jobs and cost the U.S. economy hundreds…
John McAfee, Libertarian Party candidate and cybersecurity guru, penned an op-ed in Business Insider to the FBI and to the public, offering to decrypt the San Bernadino phone for free using social engineering. In the op-ed he blasted the U.S government for using the All Writs Act of 1789 to order Apple to place a backdoor into…
Why “If you hate the government, please give up X” is a stupid argument [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]here probably isn’t a libertarian out there who hasn’t had a leftist ask them, “If you hate the government, why are you using roads, social security, police, etc…”? Granted, there are many more reasons than those listed here demonstrating why this…