(CNSNews.com) – Iran’s globe-trotting foreign minister, Javad Zarif, will be designated for U.S. sanctions later this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the White House on Monday. “The president has also designated – instructed me that we will be designating Zarif later this week,” he told reporters, while discussing the latest sanctions developments. President […]
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq—When Iran’s economy began to collapse last year under U.S. sanctions, Iranian computer programmer Mohsen Heidari decided to look for work in Iraqi Kurdistan. “It’s impossible to support my family, anymore, living in Iran,” said Heidari, who is from the Iranian city of Kermanshah. “Coming here was my last option,” Heidari said of the […]
As California enjoys a historic budget surplus of more than $21.5 billion, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for more than $2 billion in new taxes and fees. His plan calls for instituting a water tax, phone tax, and health care penalty known as the “individual mandate.” “Without the mandate, everybody’s premiums go up,” Newsom […]
In a recent Twitter interaction, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) agreed to work together on a bill that bans members of Congress from becoming professional lobbyists. It started Thursday with a tweet by Ocasio-Cortez decrying the findings of progressive consumer rights group Public Citizen that nearly 60 percent of former congressmen […]
Guest post by Ted Malloch, author of Davos, Aspen and Yale The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis just released this single snapshot of economic performance over the Obama years. What do you see? His eight years did more to destroy America than any of past presidents, be they Democrat or Republican. Look and study these few charts: Student […]
Elina Tarkazikis Cooling home price appreciation and growing wages may seem like good signs for house hunters, but home affordability still plunged to a more than 10-year low, according to Attom Data Solutions. Nationwide, Attom’s Home Affordability Index flopped to a reading of 91 in the fourth quarter, down 15% from a year ago and […]
Reverend Franklin Graham denounced a recent episode of the PBS cartoon “Arthur,” which showed two male characters getting married and Arthur and other characters applauding this blatant promotion of male sodomy. PBS is undeniably pushing the LGBTQ agenda, said Rev. Graham, and U.S. taxpayers are funding it. In a May 15 post on Facebook, Rev. […]
(CNSNews.com) – “We have a president who’s bragged about not paying taxes,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. Van Hollen asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin if he agrees that Congress “has an interest in verifying that the IRS is fairly enforcing the law and making sure the president, who […]
Earlier this year, I reviewed new fiscal projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and showed that balancing the budget would be relatively easy if politicians simply limited spending so that it didn’t grow faster than inflation. Though I made sure to point out that the primary goal should be to limit the burden of […]
The workers who assemble Apple iPhones make a starting wage of $3.15 per hour in the People’s Republic of China, according to The New York Times. “Apple has said the starting pay for workers at the world’s biggest iPhone factory, in Zhengzhou, China, is about $3.15 an hour,” The Times reported in a story published […]
