The U.S. government will not renew funding for a major research project into Lassa fever, a decision that will, in turn, cut resources for a facility in Sierra Leone that is at the forefront of the current battle against the Ebola virus. The National Institutes of Health rejected a proposal from New Orleans-based Tulane University […] Continue reading → 
A government audit has revealed that roughly $619 billion in federal grants and loans given out in fiscal year 2012 have not been properly accounted for. The latest figures come courtesy of the US Government Accountability Office, who on Friday published a report in which it warned that much-needed oversight is all too absent from a federal […] Continue reading → 
Earlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of Obamacare backers who argued that the difference between provisions providing subsidies in states with state-run health exchanges and providing no subsidies in states with federal exchanges resulted from inadvertence or a typographical error. Typical among them was MIT health […] Continue reading → 
Representative Paul Ryan’s new anti-poverty plan, released yesterday, is more ambitious than I had expected. I didn’t expect him to tackle criminal-justice reform, for example, but his plan calls for softening mandatory-minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders. I didn’t expect the plan to include higher-education reform, but it has several worthy ideas, from reforming the […] Continue reading → 
Conn Carroll The Earned Income Tax Credit is one of the federal government’s most successful anti-poverty programs. As House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) notes in his newly released anti-poverty plan today, it “makes low-income families more likely to work by increasing work’s rewards” and “encourages households to enter the labor force.” However, the […] Continue reading → 
The Senate agreed Wednesday on an $11 billion measure to temporarily fix a multibillion-dollar shortfall in federal highway and transit programs, setting up a vote next week on several alternatives. But senators will likely end up simply adopting a measure that passed the GOP-controlled House by a sweeping bipartisan vote last week, which would send […] Continue reading → 
Mary Katharine Ham, In which the agency that’s been giving millions in bonuses to people for causing and lying about the untimely deaths of veterans asks for the GDPs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Anguilla, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Equatorial Guinea combined from taxpayers to stop doing that. Super: The Department of Veterans […] Continue reading → 
During last year’s budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” When Boehner responded with “But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem,” Obama replied, “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.” In one sense, the president is right. What’s being called a […] Continue reading → 
A shocking new report from government watchdog group Judicial Watch shows just how hypocritical and out of touch the Obamas are, particularly regarding the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on their vacation travel versus their constant talk about income inequality, the struggling middle class and the poor. The outrageous sums of money that are spent […] Continue reading → 
Last year, the United States spent over $37 billion on foreign aid. Apparently, that wasn’t enough for President Obama, who is calling for a 30% increase in US contributions to the UN, as well as a couple million here, couple million there, a few more million over there, and so on. A significant portion of […] Continue reading → 
Michael Schaus The White House Calligrapher makes just under $98,000 per year… I never imagined “calligrapher” as a viable career option. In fact, I’m pretty certain that was not on the list of career possibilities that my college advisor shared with me in high school. (Breitbart) Land of the (mostly) free… Americans are beginning to […] Continue reading → 
It’s going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers’ annual financial-disclosure forms. The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement […] Continue reading → 
Perilous times on the horizon Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse A lot of people that I talk to these days want to know “when things are going to start happening”. Well, there are certainly some perilous times on the horizon, but all you have to do is open up your eyes and look to see […] Continue reading → 
The Obama administration unveiled measures to handle a surge of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. — particularly unaccompanied children — by adding border enforcement personnel and funding repatriation efforts. The U.S. plans to spend $9.6 million to help Central American governments repatriate citizens who’ve crossed into the U.S. illegally. The money is intended to enable […] Continue reading → 
Republican primary challenger Chris McDaniel puts the nation’s $17 trillion debt at the center of his bid to represent Mississippi in the Senate, bashing six-term Sen. Thad Cochran as a profligate spender who has contributed to a problem that McDaniel considers “immoral.” At the same time, the potential tea party hero pledges support for Mississippi’s […] Continue reading →