Steve Birr Activists who violated federal law with a public marijuana smoking demonstration in front of the White House will meet with the Obama Administration Monday to discuss the future of legalization. Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller spearheaded Initiative 71, which legalized up to two ounces of marijuana for personal home consumption in the District…
Juliegrace Brufke Taxpayers in the United States said Obamacare risk corridors is the worst government mandate, according to Americans for Prosperity, a prominent conservative advocacy group. In honor of tax day, the organization created its “Taxpayer Madness bracket,” taking into account tens of thousands of votes to determine which mandates were were the biggest hinderance to the country. “After…
Luke Rosiak A federal agency will be breaking the law unless two of its top Obama administration appointees repay many months of their salaries to taxpayers after barring another federal employee from telling Congress how higher-ups were allowing multi-million dollar frauds as part of a political deal. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined Tuesday that the two…
Even Paul Krugman and Mother Jones are sick of Bernie Sanders [dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]arlier this week it was revealed that left-leaning civil rights movements in Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont aren’t “feeling the Bern” by The Daily Beast. At the time, many wrote off these lone civil rights causes as insignificant, given Bernie’s voting demographic in Vermont…
Michael Bastasch Republican lawmakers have subpoenaed the Obama administration demanding information regarding the Gold King Mine blowout that contaminated rivers with millions of gallons of mine waste. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans subpoenaed the Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday night, demanding records related to the Corp’s peer review of the government’s technical evaluation…
by Michael Bastasch The Obama administration has vowed to sign a United Nations global warming deal in April, despite intense opposition from the Senate and a Supreme Court ruling derailing the government’s green regulatory scheme. “We’re going to go ahead and sign the agreement this year,” Todd Stern, the U.S.’s climate envoy told reporters Tuesday, brushing…
Michael Bastasch The White House’s global warming claims are now being contradicted by the Obama administration’s own scientists. President Barack Obama’s administration has repeated the talking point over the year that man-made global warming has increased the incidence of heavy rainfalls across the U.S., but a new study casts doubt on this assertion. National Oceanic…
Juliegrace Brufke Former Chief Restructuring Officer for the Department of Treasury Jim Millstein’s restructuring-advisory firm, MillCo Advisors, is reportedly raking in millions off of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. According to The New York Post, the former Obama official – who left the government agency in 2011 – could make as much as $52.4 million off…
Rachel Stoltzfoos A federal judge ruled Tuesday the Obama administration can’t use executive privilege to shield Operation Fast and Furious documents from Congress, and ordered the administration to turn over the requested documents. Public disclosures from the Department of Justice (DOJ) about its response to the botched operation undercut the administration’s attempt to invoke executive privilege,…
Michael Bastasch President Barack Obama’s decision to put a moratorium on new coal mine leases could end up costing Americans billions of dollars as more federal lands are locked up. Instead, if Obama could have generated nearly $88 billion of economic activity from opening more federally-controlled lands to coal mining, according to a recent study…