SEC Investigating Possible Insider Trading in Heinz Buyout

In one of the fastest enforcement actions ever filed for suspicious trading, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen a Swiss trading account that turned a $90,000 options play into $1.7 million profit just before Heinz’s recent $23 billion buyout by billionaire Warren Buffett and Brazilian equity firm 3G Capital. 17 Feb 2013

Rangel Proposes Bills to Reinstate Draft, Require Women to Sign Up

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) wants to bring back the military draft and require women to register for the Selective Service. 16 Feb 2013

Taxpayers Spent $14K to Send NJ Transit Workers to Super Bowl

The New Jersey Transit Corporation spent over $14,000 to send four of its employees to the Super Bowl in New Orleans to scout out transportation and security in advance of next year’s big game at MetLife Stadium. 16 Feb 2013

Internal Walmart Email: 'Sales Are a Total Disaster'

The recent hike in payroll taxes is dragging down sales for discount retailers like Wal-Mart. With less disposable cash in their wallets, lower-income shoppers have less to spend. 15 Feb 2013

New Data Prove Obama Defying Immigration Laws

Federal law specifically states that any alien granted entry into the United States must be financially self-sufficient so as not to become a “public charge” dependent on welfare. 15 Feb 2013

GOP Leverage Uncertain in Sequester Debate

In an effort to dodge President Obama’s State of the Union charges that Republicans want a government shutdown, GOP lawmakers are scrambling to maintain leverage in the debate over the impending sequester. 14 Feb 2013

Civil Rights Leaders to Obama: Amnesty Will Crush Black Employment

Two members of the eight-person U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the independent bipartisan agency tasked with "objective and comprehensive investigation, research, and analysis" of civil rights issues, have warned President Barack Obama that granting illegal immigrants effective amnesty would “harm lower-skilled African-Americans by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment.” 14 Feb 2013

Jack Lew Holds Cayman Islands Fund Obama Called 'Largest Tax Scam In The World'

During a Wednesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Obama Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew pled ignorance to a $56,000 investment he held in a Cayman Islands fund registered to Ugland House, the exact building that President Barack Obama has called “the largest tax scam in the world.” 14 Feb 2013

Bill Gates' Education Reform Sparks Conservative Opposition

The second richest person on the planet, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has used the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $37 billion to fund philanthropic interests the world over. But Gates’s investment of $173 million to shape and promote a uniform set of education standards, known as the Common Core, has some education advocates mounting a state-level resistance to the Gates initiative. 13 Feb 2013

SOTU Fact Check: Obama's Minimum Wage Hike Won't Reduce Poverty

President Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address included a controversial call to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.00, a move that some employers and economists say would kill jobs and encourage cost-shifting in the form of higher prices in an already rickety economy. 12 Feb 2013