CBP in collaboration with ICE intercepts largest cocaine shipment at Port Hueneme in 25 years

LOS ANGELES — U.S. customs agents seized 221.7 pounds (100.6 kilograms) of Cocaine worth approximately $2 million concealed in produce cargo vessels arriving from Ecuador and Guatemala. On January 22, while conducting an enforcement boarding of a refrigerated vessel arriving from Ecuador, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers discovered 80 bundles of cocaine weighing …

Rebuttal of Veronique de Rugy’s latest anti-defense lies

The French libertarian Veronique de Rugy, who currently lives in the US and writes garbage for the GMU’s Mercatus Center, and who is totally ignorant about federal budgetary and defense issues, but nonetheless thinks she’s qualified to comment on them, has a strange habit of lecturing the American people and American policymakers about what US …

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Disowns Women’s March Leaders For Backing ‘Peddlers Of Hate’

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida condemned leaders of the Women’s March Friday for failing to “repudiate anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.” Wasserman Schultz, who is Jewish, joins a growing list of left-wing personalities and groups distancing themselves from the organization run by co-presidents Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland and board members Carmen …

US Refineries Are Processing Record Levels Of Crude Oil To Keep Up With Demand

  by Michael Bastasch U.S. refineries are running at record levels to meet the high demand for gasoline and distillate fuel oil, according to federal data. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) found the four-week average of gross refinery inputs hit 18 million barrels a day in early July — a new record. The data shows the refining …

Turning the Tables on Verizon & Other Cable Buccaneers

Charles Murray’s new book — BY THE PEOPLE: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission —urges conservatives to embrace civil disobedience, but with a difference: We won’t loot CVS stores. In the face of all–pervasive government demanding we obey picayune regulations, Murray urges us to: “…withhold that compliance through systematic civil disobedience. Not for all regulations, but for …

Better off Renting? Renters Can Create More Wealth than Buyers in Many U.S. Housing Markets Now

With housing markets around the U.S. nearing the peak in their cycles, renters who reinvest their money have an increasingly better chance at creating wealth than individuals who purchase a home, according to the latest national index produced by Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University faculty. This marginal move in the Beracha, Hardin & Johnson Buy vs. Rent (BH&J) …

Ocasio-Cortez Has Racked Up Three Major Ethics Complaints During Her First Months In Congress

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has compiled a slew of ethics complaints during her first few months in Congress without providing much in the way of a response for any of them Watchdog groups have leveled ethics complaints at Ocasio-Cortez over her use of social media and alleged willingness to set up a million-dollar slush fund Ocasio-Cortez …

Like Country Music? Here’s a breakout artist that just might remind you why you do

I like songs I can visualize – music that doesn’t need a video to tell the story and William Michael Morgan delivers. He’s young and doing has just started being pushed by Warner Brothers music with his new album “EP”. A top producer in country music, Warner’s Scott Hendricks says that Morgan “is seriously one …