Michael Bastasch Coal mines shed more than 11,000 jobs in the last year, according to recently released employment data, as the industry continues to contract under onerous federal regulations and faltering demand. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there were around 56,700 coal miners employed across the U.S. as of March 2016, which is down about…
Blake Neff The father of a British schoolchild is complaining after his son’s school called the police when he visited the website of an anti-immigration political party. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the U.K.’s main anti-immigration party, and collected just under 13 percent of the vote in the country’s 2015 election. It also…
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 lawsuit filed Friday accuses Indiana-based union officials of allegedly storming a church-owned construction site to brutally assault nonunion construction workers. Iron Workers Local 395 officials were adamantly opposed to Dyer Baptist Church using nonunion construction workers. Local 395 Business Agent Thomas Williamson Sr. demanded the project be turned over to…
by Michael Bastasch The National Parks Service (NPS) may be trying to stop an Arizona mining project by quickly and quietly creating a historical district on federal lands that would make such projects much harder to get approved. Federal lawmakers have sent letters to NPS demanding answers and have expressed worry the agency’s move is yet another attempt…
Blake Neff Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released a new undercover video, which he says proves Common Core education standards are simply a play by textbook publishers to make money by selling modified textbooks. O’Keefe’s Project Veritas first released his video Tuesday morning through The Daily Mail. The video shows an undercover Veritas reporter interviewing Diane Barrow, a West Coast sales…
Michael Bastasch The EPA issued new regulations Monday aiming to reduce migrant farm worker exposure to pesticides. The rules got a big welcome from activist groups who have been pushing for more regulations on pesticides. Interestingly enough, many of these same activist groups have gotten millions of dollars in grants from the EPA over the years for…
By: Laura Meyers The US Capitol Police will soon be participating in a new potty training program to learn how to use the bathroom without leaving their guns behind for children to find. There have been three incidents in 2015 where a police officer has left a firearm in a bathroom stall. One gun was…
By Lina Bryce Texas Rangers are investigating whether or not excessive force was used when a sheriff’s deputy punched a pregnant woman during what began as a CPS removal of a minor. The March 4th confrontation began when Deanna Jo Robinson and her husband’s six-year-old stepson, who suffers from cerebral palsy, told school officials that his…
By Lina Bryce Police say an internal investigation has been launched relating to the video posted on social media where an officer can be heard threatening to break the leg of a 17-year-old high school student near the Blaisdell YMCA in south Minneapolis. Urban League Academy High School senior and 17-year-old Hamza Jeylani, alleges that he…