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10/04/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Controversy erupts over ban of hot new drug

(BigGovernment.news) A pending federal ban on an ancient Asian herb called kratom is drawing pushback from some researchers and alternative-medicine advocates. The federal Drug Enforcement Agency’s proposed restrictions on kratom’s painkilling properties could take effect after a 30-day notice period ends Friday. DEA spokesman Russ Baer couldn’t give the exact date that possession, manufacture and distribution […]

09/29/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

GAO criticizes HHS over security of patient health records

(BigGovernment.news) [AMI Newswire] A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Monday said the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) oversight of health care privacy laws “may not be as effective as it could be,” and could expose health care records to more serious cyber attacks. A team of GAO investigators, lead by information security […]

09/26/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Texas poised to withdraw from refugee resettlement program

(BigGovernment.news) Texas plans to withdraw from the federal refugee resettlement program due to concerns that some refugees might pose a security threat, the governor said last week. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he has given the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) notice that Texas would withdraw from the resettlement program unless the office unconditionally approved […]

09/22/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

21 states sue over new federal overtime rules because they will penalize workers, not reward them

(BigGovernment.news) Another day, another top-down, one-size-fits-all rule imposed on businesses by Washington bureaucrats with no business experience of their own that is supposed to “help workers,” but which will, in the end, hurt them. In fact, expect this new rule to cost many workers their jobs as companies cut back and lay off. Nearly half […]

09/19/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

TSA security background checks remain unreliable

(BigGovernment.news) The Transportation Security Administration’s program for issuing security credentials at the nation’s ports remains unreliable, and could allow serious breaches, an inspector general’s report said. Department of Homeland Security inspector general John Roth’s report, issued Sept. 1, said the TSA’s identification credentials system is in such a state of disarray that “there is a risk […]

09/16/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

High-tax Democrats in liberal cities and left-wing states are driving taxpayers out

(BigGovernment.news) Economics 101 is one thing that liberals don’t get and will never understand. Second to that is tax policy. Liberals think that government “creates jobs” – and that is true to an extent. When you grow government, you “create” jobs. But you rob from the tax base to create those jobs because government employees […]

09/06/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Epic fail: IRS has failed to notify taxpayers their identity has been stolen

(BigGovernment.news) Here’s hoping the next Congress and president whittle the IRS down to a shell of its current size so that the agency will no longer have the power to abuse the taxpayers it is supposed to serve. Or, at a minimum, let’s hope the next president cleans house and replaces the current inept leadership […]

08/31/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

How to kill jobs, big government style

(BigGovernment.news) No matter how hard you try to convince socialist Democrats that artificially hiking wages will kill employment and hurt the poor the most, they refuse to listen – even when the proof is staring them in the face. Washington, D.C. is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Democratic Party, which explains why city […]

08/26/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Hysteria over Coal Will Remake Oregon into the ‘Brownout State’

(BigGovernment.news) In the mid-1800s, thousands of pioneers and settlers living in the eastern United States took the famed Oregon Trail westward, in search of land, resources and a better life. Today, it seems, a majority of Oregonians want to take the state back to those times, at least technologically. A new law passed by the […]

08/19/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

More proof that more money for education does NOT equal better outcomes

(BigGovernment.news) Once again, new data show that there is exactly zero correlation to better educational outcomes if more money is spent on “education,” contrary to what big-government Democrats tell us. As reported by AMI Newswire, Figures for K-12 education spending updated this week show a continuing lack of connection between funding and higher school quality. A review by the […]

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