National Debt Will Soon Eclipse GDP, Says Comptroller General
The U.S. government will soon owe more than the entire economy produces, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told the Senate Budget Committee recently. ...
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7-Eleven Customer With Concealed-carry Permit Kills Hatchet-wielding Attacker
A customer with a concealed-carry permit probably saved the life of a Washington-state convenience-store clerk Sunday morning by shooting a man who was attacking him with a hatchet. ...
Schumer Wants $1 Million From Washington for Long Island Brewery Project
Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) threw his support behind a Long Island community's application for a $1 million federal grant to build a beer "incubator" for microbrewers. ...
Doctors, Hospitals Owed by Failed ObamaCare Co-ops May Get Stiffed by Uncle Sam
The Obama administration wants the failed ObamaCare co-ops to pay back their federal loans before they pay doctors and hospitals, possibly leaving healthcare providers with millions of dollars' worth...
Proposed Federal Regulation Could Squelch Popular Financial Advisers
A proposed Labor Department rule regarding investment advisers could have a chilling effect on the speech of popular advisers such as Dave Ramsey. ...
Married Chinese Pastors Sentenced to Years in Prison for Opposing Cross Removal
A Chinese court sentenced a husband-and-wife team of Christian pastors to significant jail time and heavy fines for opposing the removal of their church's cross by the government. ...
How ObamaCare Reduces Competition and Rations Care
ObamaCare, supposedly designed to protect Americans from big insurance companies and their denial of costly care, has itself led to larger healthcare conglomerates and rationing of care. ...
One-word Change to TPP Represents Massive Power Grab, Says Watchdog
A one-word change to a footnote in the Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to impose significant criminal penalties on individuals and entities caught violating copyright laws even if those...
Wisconsin Governor Signs Bills Defunding Planned Parenthood
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stripped Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, of up to $8 million in taxpayer funds when he signed two bills into law Thursday. ...
Cancer and ObamaCare: a Double Whammy
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including many cancer patients, are finding their troubles multiplied by ObamaCare paperwork and co-op failures. ...
DHS Loses Hundreds of Badges, Guns, and Electronics
The Department of Homeland Security reported that hundreds of its badges, firearms, computers, and cellphones were either lost or stolen over a 31-month period. ...
Emergency Rooms Short on Lifesaving Drugs
Emergency rooms across the country are facing a severe shortage of drugs, many of which are necessary to save lives — and, as usual, government is largely to blame....
Rx for Healthcare
The book The Primal Prescription tells how healthcare became costly and burdensome, as well as methods to obtain good medical treatment and how to avoid needing it. ...
Kansas Court Upholds Injunction Against Law Banning “Dismemberment” Abortions
A Kansas appeals court upheld a lower court’s injunction against a law banning abortions in which the unborn baby is dismembered alive — and discovered a “right” to abortion in...
Two Republicans Get on the Equality Act Bandwagon
Two congressional Republicans have announced they are cosponsoring the Equality Act, which would prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination and open up restrooms and locker rooms to members of the opposite sex....