Gordon Duff, a columnist for Iran’s state-controlled English-language media outlet PRESSTV, penned an article Tuesday claiming that the CIA is responsible for the outcome of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Duff’s hypothesis is based on his claim that the CIA can
Question: Do you think the Democrats are worried about a housing slump in the second half of 2014? Earlier this week, I participated on a panel in Washington at a conference sponsored by my friends at The Five Star Institute,
On March 26th the U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal laws barring gun possession by people convicted of minor domestic violence. According to the Associated Press, this applies “even in states where no proof of physical violence is required to support
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that by the end of the budget window in 2024, interest payments on the U.S. debt will quadruple, reaching a stratospheric $880 billion a year. According to Senate Budget Chairman Jeff Sessions (R-AL),
“Without electricity the National Assembly in the country with the largest proven oil reserves,” observes one tweeter, disseminating a picture of Venezuela’s legislature consumed by darkness. Even President Nicolás Maduro’s radio show is offline as the country faces increasing blackouts
Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader who turned himself in to authorities last month after he was charged with committing murder and terrorism. Lopez has spent more than a month in a military prison as President Maduro worked to
The death of far-right Ukrainian leader Oleksander Muzychko threatens to raise tensions in the already-shaky new government in Kiev, Ukraine. Police had attempted to arrest Muzychko at a café, but he opened fire on them. As The Guardian reports: According to Ukraine’s
Democrats are becoming vocal about growing concerns over the lack of Latino enrollment in Obamacare healthcare exchanges as the deadline to sign up nears. Despite claiming about a third of the uninsured population, the Obama administration has struggled to attract
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police said they had found a suspicious package on a public bus in Brussels and had called in the bomb squad to investigate on the day of the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama. The package
On March 25th a Home Depot customer with a handgun in Roseville, Mich., stopped an attack by another customer who had shoplifted a drill and was using a dirty needle to stab at security officers trying to apprehend him. According
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray and an entourage of CFPB employees, several of whom are veterans of the Obama and Elizabeth Warren campaigns, descended on Nashville, Tennessee, for a payday loan field hearing Tuesday at the Country Music
An unknown amount of crude oil has been accidentally discharged into Lake Michigan just south east of Chicago, oil giant BP reports. The company confirms that its Whiting, Indiana facility, situated just at the border of Illinois and Indiana and
A massive wall of earth came cascading down on the tiny enclave of Oso about 55 miles northeast of Seattle Washington. Fourteen people are known dead and 176 are reported missing. More than 150 rescue workers sifting through nearly a
The relatives of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have taken to the streets of Beijing to protest the lack of new evidence pointing to the government’s conclusion that the flight crashed into the southeastern Indian Ocean, leaving
A fatal shooting aboard the Norfolk-based U.S.S. Mahan has left officials at the world’s largest naval base searching for answers. The investigation into the shooting that took place aboard the Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer at 11:20 p.m. Monday continues, as the
Fisker Automotive, the electric car manufacturer that received a $529 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009 and then went belly-up, forcing the government to lose $139 million on its loan, admitted Monday it had sold virtually all
After immense pressure from the American public to scrap the governments “metadata” collection efforts, Presidente Obama is strongly considering, and will ask the Congress to end the NSA “bulk collection” of the metadata. Here is the catch. The government, or
A new study by the left-leaning think tank the New American Foundation finds that 40% of the over $1 trillion in U.S. student loan debt belongs to graduate students. “Most of these degrees are not intuitively worth it,” Jason Delisle,
The United Kingdom is preparing more steps to punish Russia for annexing Crimea from Ukraine. The European Union and United States have both already implemented many sanctions against Russia. Now Britain’s Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) might end
Covered California, the Golden State’s troubled Obamacare exchange, will mail 4 million voter registration cards to residents who have enrolled in health insurance plans (largely Medicaid), the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The state Obamacare exchange was not initially registering voters, but
The U.S. has scheduled 1,150 Marines to move to Darwin, Australia in April, as part of a “rebalancing” of the Asia-America axis. This move is adding to the 200 that are already there. The plan is to eventually have up to 2,500 US
As Malaysian authorities definitively conclude that no one could have survived the crash of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Telegraph reports that police are working with a “suicide mission theory,” as all signs point to the plane being flown deliberately
The House of Commons voted today to allow Scots to vote in the UK General Election in 2015, even if they vote for Independence. Meaning they will return 59 MPs to a Parliament of a country they will not be
Democrats and union officials usually blame management obstruction, international competition, and the growth of robots for the 80% decline in the percentage of Americans working in the private sector that are unionized. However, Steve Early, longtime union staff member and
Scores of angry relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard Flight MH370 set out on a protest march to the Malaysian embassy in Beijing Tuesday to demand more answers about the crashed plane’s fate. Around 200 family members, some in tears,
