By Greg Campbell Colorado marijuana businesses may soon have a place to put the considerable money they’re making, as the state legislature is poised to pass a bill allowing them to set up financial co-ops that would be similar to credit unions. Most pot retailers, landlords for grow operations and hemp farmers have found it impossible to…
MILWAUKEE, WI–Police are in the business of protecting and serving…their own interests. Last February, Robert Jackson‘s car was sideswiped by police, who then arrested him to cover up their ineptitude. Jackson was vindicated thanks to surveillance video, as was Tanya Weyker in Wisconsin. Last Year, Weyker, 25, broke her neck in four places after Sheriff’s…
By Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency has not been firing employees for watching pornography and falsifying federal documents, according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. “How much pornography would it take for an EPA employee to lose his job?” Issa asked EPA officials, including the agency’s second-in-command, testifying before the House Oversight Committee. Issa…
The government of Nigeria has accepted aid from the United States to track down and rescue the more than 300 girls who have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. President Barack Obama said that the U.S. will “do everything we can” to help Nigeria. “Obviously, what’s happening is awful and, as a father of…
By Sarah Hurtubise Just one of Obamacare’s many taxes could cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade, according to an industry report published Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Business projects that between 152,000 and 286,000 jobs will be lost by 2023 due to Obamacare’s health insurance tax. NFIB, a nonprofit association…
By: T.J. Wass The Pennsylvania union representing liquor store clerks has enjoyed a monopoly for decades and is in full panic mode to stop the privatization of the state’s liquor system. Legislators want to approve the sale of beer and wine in grocery stores and allow more competition between businesses like most sensible states in…
By Breanna Deutsch Apparently, sin taxes can lead to sinful activities. Due to heavy excise taxes on tobacco products in some states, the United States is facing a cigarette smuggling epidemic. In a study conducted by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, researchers found that the top five states that received smuggled cigarettes were New York (56.9…
Can the free market police free speech? Former CEO of Mozilla Brendan Eich stepped down after a controversy erupted when it was learned that he donated $1,000 to proposition 8 in California. Some say that it was a witch hunt, while others thought that it was a legitimate action of voluntary individuals behaving in a…
By Greg Campbell Colorado Republican lawmakers are willing to consider a bill that would give cities and counties more control over oil and gas operations in order to avert a November ballot initiative that would open the door to fracking bans. Republican state Rep. Frank McNulty told Denver’s Fox 31 that a legislative compromise…
High Frequency Money Printing A Bigger Threat Than High Frequency Trading Dow Hits Record High, While Growth Dwindles On Wednesday, most Americans may have been confused by what seems to be mixed economic signals. Wall Street was manic when the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record 16,580.84. The party began as CNBC…