By Fred Lucas The Internal Revenue Service seized $446,000 from the bank accounts of brothers Jeffrey, Richard, and Mitch Hirsch in 2012, claiming a “structuring” violation against the owners of Bi-County Distributors Inc. for making multiple bank deposits of less than $10,000. The government never charged them with a crime, nor gave them a hearing to enable…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Billions of taxpayer dollars could be at risk of abuse in the government’s credit card program, but actual fraud is difficult to find, according to a government audit released Tuesday. Government employees spent $8.7 billion on small items using purchase cards in 2014. The Government Accountability Office (GAO)…
The USU in Maryland is using some of its resources to train students for a zombie outbreak, according to the DOD.
By Richard Pollock What does the nearly bankrupt federal agency that helped trigger the great recession of 2008 do when top officials want a swank new headquarters? They erect a Taj Mahal-style building that costs taxpayers 53 percent more than promised. That’s the conclusion of Federal Housing Finance Authority Inspector General Laura S. Wertheimer, who released…
By Kathryn Watson Two Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) employees hid a strip club they owned and operated on government time from federal officials, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. DEA workers Glen Glover of New Jersey and David Polos of New York were convicted Thursday of failing to disclose their…
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Ethan Barton Federal agencies apparently spent $35 million on 20 questionable studies, a report has found, including experiments on what makes goldfish feel sexy and if being liberal is genetic. “We ought to reevaluate a system that spends federal funds looking for America’s next top model over a cure for cancer,” Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said in…
California Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman introduced a proposal in the state legislature earlier this week that would set up supervised drug consumption sites for users of heroin, crack, opioids, and other drugs. A committee vote on the measure was delayed, showing the reluctance of Eggman’s colleagues to take such a drastic step to address rising…
Millennials. They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it? Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have…