ByMATT WALSH  |   @MATTWALSHBLOG Anthony Bourdain killed himself today. Fashion designer Kate Spade committed suicide earlier in the week. That’s two prominent suicides in the span of just a few days. And they are far from alone, sadly. Suicide is a veritable epidemic across the nation. Suicide rates are on the rise in almost every state. In some areas, they have risen by 30% […]

Why Fact Checkers Need to Accept That They Can Err. Kalev Leetaru examines the limited avenues of recourse the subjects of negative fact checks have to dispute rulings they believe are inaccurate. Women and Cyber. In our latest cybersecurity podcast, former Homeland Security official Phyllis Schneck discusses her pioneering role in the cyber defense realm. Religious Freedom Isn’t Baked Into […]

“In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.”— Tim Heaton To know the South, you have to be from the South. Widely varied in climates, cultures and cuisine, the former Confederate states are […]

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its target short-term interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point for the second time this year, citing falling unemployment and rising inflation. The Fed also indicated that it probably would raise rates two more times this year, up from the single hike previously expected. The move pushes the target rate, which is […]

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her top deputy, Raj Shah, “are planning their departures,” CBS News reports, citing sources inside the White House and close to the administration. Sanders has told friends she plans to leave at the end of the year, CBS News reported, while Shah hasn’t set a date. Sanders declined to comment on the […]

By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) – “Lindsey Graham is a danger to the country by even proposing ideas like authorizing war with Korea,” Sen. Rand Paul tweeted on Monday — one day after Sen. Graham went on ABC’s “This Week” and said the United States should go to war against North Korea if North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un does not agree […]

By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) – The federal government collected a record $1,143,141,000,000 in individual income taxes through the first eight months of fiscal 2018 (Oct. 1, 2017 through the end of May), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. Despite the record individual income tax collections, the federal government still ran a deficit of $532,241,000,000 over those same eight months, […]

  By Chuck Ross |   The Daily Caller Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that more firings are possible following the release of a forthcoming Department of Justice report of an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. “If anyone else shows up in this report to have done something that requires termination we will do […]

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has never bought the line that Trump’s tax cuts would pay for themselves. Instead, it has projected that tax revenues over the next 10 years will fall $1.5 trillion short of government spending over that period. The report from the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Tuesday confirmed the CBO’s conclusion: For May, increases in […]

Just three days after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in favor of a baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay “wedding,” a court in Arizona is forcing a pair of Christian small-business owners to provide their products to a homosexual couple. On June 7, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that Brush and Nib, […]

Written by  Raven Clabough Vermont will require all residents to have health insurance by 2020, despite the national backlash against ObamaCare’s individual mandate that demanded the same requirement of all Americans. Just days after Vermont signed its individual mandate into law, New Jersey followed suit. The two states now join Massachusetts, which has had a similar mandate in place for years. […]

The President of the United States Donald Trump turns 72 on today, 14 June. In the last couple of years alone the real estate tycoon-turned-politician has made major strides in his Presidency. To mark this milestone, IBTimes UK takes a look at the many sides of Trump. The businessman Trump is worth an estimated $4.5bn (£3.2bn). While he did inherit […]