by Jim Duncan Thanks to this video from Fusion, you’ve got a great new drinking game this election season. For every country America is currently bombing that you can’t name, take a shot. Fun, huh? You’ll probably get one or two at least. I mean Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are kind of obvious, but can…
A new Gallup poll reveals that Americans dislike the Federal Government more than any other major industry in the country. The study shows that only 28 percent of those polled had a positive view of the government, while a whopping 55 percent had a negative view. 16 percent participating had a neutral view or no…
By Luke Rosiak An image-cultivating, deal-making American expatriate who seemingly could talk himself into almost any job despite lacking essential skills and work ethic, bamboozled a top federal housing agency into putting him in charge of a $1.5 trillion portfolio of mortgage guarantees. Multiple documents and interviews assembled by The Daily Caller News Foundation show…
Connor D. Wolf A Pennsylvania teacher has had her pension benefits revoked following years of doing nothing but union work instead of her job, a lawyer involved said. Allentown Education Association President Debra Tretter has done nothing but union work since getting elected in 2009. In that time, she continued to accumulate pension benefits reserved…
By Thomas Phippen The organization President Barack Obama founded to bring the federal government into the digital age is in big trouble not just for being unprofitable, but for losing $1 million every month. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday reveals that the start up, dubbed “18F,” spends about $1 million more each month than it recoups…
Steve Birr More than two dozen firearms that were supposed to be in the custody of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) somehow made their way back to the streets and were used in other crimes, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation appear to show. An internal memo from the D.C. Department of Forensic…
By Michael Bastasch Michigan regulators have gotten most of the blame for allowing high levels of lead get into the city of Flint’s drinking water, but a new government report notes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wasn’t enforcing federal law despite knowing lead was seeping into people’s drinking water. A new Congressional Research Service (CRS)…
Kathryn Watson Federal Aviation Administration officials are missing more than $32.5 million in taxpayer-funded property, according to a new Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General report. That’s about 15,000 pieces of property each of which is worth $100,000 or less, and could be anything from computers to utility vehicles. The agency responsible for regulating…
Kathryn Watson General Services Administration (GSA) officials designed a $75 million federal law enforcement facility so unsuited to what the intended occupants needed that they couldn’t use the building when it was completed, according to the Government Accountability Office. GSA, already notorious for wasteful spending on conferences and employee videos, didn’t talk to the Federal Protective Service (FPS)…