Lindsey Graham: Just go ahead and raise the debt ceiling
Last Friday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham set out to distinguish himself among rivals, arguing that the question of whether to raise the debt limit was an obvious one: “At the end of the day,...
View ArticleDespite the scandal, wait times for veterans at the VA have gone up by an...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is still recovering from the scandal which erupted in 2014 over manipulated wait lists. A year later, the number of veterans waiting a month or more for appointments...
View ArticleBelieve it or not, the Republican House is about to let the Export-Import...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are poised to deal a sharp blow to their traditional allies in the business community by allowing the federal Export-Import Bank to go out of business at...
View ArticleToday the Export-Import welfare bank finally closed its doors
The Export-Import Bank is a New Deal relic of corporate welfare that’s managed to earn the support of Congress for over 80 years. That ended today, when organized pressure from free-market critics...
View ArticlePuerto Rico is the victim of bad economic policy—on steroids
With the flurry of news about last week’s Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and gay marriage, you may have missed reports that the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is in serious financial trouble. The...
View ArticleA big part of Social Security is about to run out of money
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 11 million people who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year — unless Congress acts, the government said Wednesday. The trustees that oversee Social...
View ArticleThe State of Georgia says educating citizens about its laws for free is...
The State of Georgia is pursuing a lawsuit against one Carl Malamud, whom it accuses of perpetrating piracy and “a form of terrorism.” Malamud’s heinous crime? Operating public.resource.org, a popular...
View ArticleGet ready for slower lines at the airport
Prodded by frequent failures to detect mock explosives and weapons during tests, the Transportation Security Administration is retraining airport screeners in Atlanta and across the country. The move...
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A turtle delivers mail faster than the U.S. Post Office
It’s Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare all over again. Except the tortoise is a turtle (there is a difference) and the hare is the federal Postal Service. Reddit user r/malvoliosf shared a screenshot of a...
View ArticleClinton emails reveal she requested a book with advice on deleting emails...
No, this is not a story from The Onion. One of the tastier revelations from the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has released is the fact that she asked to borrow a copy of a book...
View ArticleSocial Security turns 80 on Friday and it may be time for the program to retire
WASHINGTON – Social Security turns 80 on Friday, and the massive retirement and disability program is showing its age. Social Security’s disability fund is projected to run dry next year. The...
View ArticleThe TSA’s invasive and yet non-functional body scanners cost us $160 million
Politico has rounded up some depressing numbers on just how much of our money our government has wasted pretending to keep us safe at the airport: The $160 million bill includes $120 million for the...
View ArticleNew York City’s bail system is a nightmare of big government bureaucracy
Earlier this year I wrote here at Rare about Riker’s Island Prison in New York City, where more than 1,500 people have been held for a year or longer without a trial. Shockingly, half a dozen of them...
View ArticleSocial “Security” is anything but
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, forever changing the American systems of taxation, retirement, and federal spending. But a program that...
View ArticleGenius federal employees accessed Ashley Madison on government Internet...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay...
View Article10 years later, a reminder that government failed during Hurricane Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans in 2005, flooding 80 percent of the city and killing close to 2,000 people, Washington quickly decided on a scapegoat: FEMA director Michael Brown. A former...
View ArticleKentucky clerk once again denies gay marriage license, despite federal order
MOREHEAD, Ky. — A Kentucky clerk’s office on Thursday again refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the...
View ArticleNew report confirms hundreds of thousands of vets died because of VA wait times
A total of 307,000 veterans have died while waiting for the Department of Veterans Affairs to process their health care applications, a new inspector general report found. Allegations of mismanagement...
View ArticleWith a devastating toxic spill and lack of accountability, one lawmaker wants...
WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker says the head of the Environmental Protection Agency should be impeached, but the effort appears unlikely to get very far. A spokesman for the Republican House...
View ArticleFall fights: What’s a fiscal conservative to do?
If you’ve been paying any attention to political news, you know this fall is going to be an interesting one, to say the least. Since congressional appropriators failed to finish all 12 spending bills...
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