Just in time for the Fourth of July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added a new regulatory weapon to its arsenal. In a Federal Register notice on July 2 titled “Administrative Wage Garnishment,” the EPA stated that by the authority of the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA ) of 1996 it […]
(CNSNews.com) – Public pension holdings and investments for the nation’s 100 largest public-employee pension systems hit a record high of $3.2 trillion ($3,218,198,000,000) in the first quarter of 2014, a 0.5 percent increase from $3,200.8 billion in the prior quarter, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. At the same time, benefit payments totaled […]
(CNSNews.com) — Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto called the state budget plan signed Friday by California Gov. Jerry Brown “insanely distorted health care” because it continues a 10 percent cut in Medi-Cal funds to hospitals and other health care providers for low- income families, but increases state funding to abortion providers by 40 percent. Bishop Soto, who […]
According to a recently published briefing book “obtained by Politico” by the liberal megadonor group Democracy Alliance, “progressives’ long term success hinges on our ability to fundamentally change our current political system – including large questions about who can vote, the role money should play in politics, and what our courts look like.” The briefing, […]
A congressman trying to visit a federal facility housing unaccompanied illegal immigrants from Central America was denied access to the building today. According to a press release, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., attempted to visit the Fort Sill Army post—run by the Department of Health and Human Services—in Lawton, Okla., Tuesday but was told that he would […]
(CNSNews.com) – Dismissing Republican criticism of Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi terrorist attack, President Clinton referred to ten occasions during the Bush administration when U.S. diplomatic personnel had been killed, and asked where the GOP anger had been then. “When ten different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were […]
A recent study labeled Mississippi as the nation’s most corrupt state, but state auditor Stacey Pickering says it should get credit for its efforts in fighting corruption. The study by researchers Cheol Liu from the City University of Hong Kong and Indiana University’s John L. Mikesell found corruption in Mississippi was tops among the states from 1976 through 2008. […]
With 26 legislative days left before the Export-Import Bank’s charter expires Sept. 30, a preliminary count of the agency’s supporters and opponents finds that 40 percent of House Republicans are against extending its life. According to an analysis conducted by The Hill newspaper, four in 10 House Republicans – 93 or so of the chamber’s 233 majority […]
With the rapid advance in Iraq of the deadly terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), political leaders and policy analysts are concerned not only with regional security in the Middle East but with new threats to America’s national security. In Part 1 of this interview, The Heritage Foundation’s expert […]
Children caught crossing the border into the United States appear well coached as they willingly surrender themselves. The youngsters respond to questions from U.S. Border Patrol agents by following directions written on printed handouts provided by smugglers. “They carry scripts with them telling them how to answer questions,” Shawn Moran, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, […]
