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The greens are focused on the wrong problem....

The batty bag bans One sure way to raise the blood pressure of environmentalists is to bring up the topic of plastic bags. They detest the things, and believe governments should ban them as a way to prevent both litter and global warming. But do such bans actually work? According to Bjorn Lomborg, the bans won't do an...

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Grassley calls out foreign influence One of the more troubling aspects to come out of Robert Mueller's investigation into in the 2016 presidential election is how determined Russia was to spread fear, lies, and misinformation. But as Sen. Charles Grassley notes in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, there's a more insidious, and ongo...

GAO audits the IRS No one likes to be the subject of an IRS audit. But the IRS itself gets audited every year by the federal government's internal watchdog, the GAO, to make sure the agency is performing its duties as required.

And likely won't any time soon...

Uncle Sam can't pass an audit The Government Accountability Office has released its audit of the federal government's general fund. What is the watchdog agency's verdict?

Your tax dollars at work...

Export Import Bank giving loans to deadbeats The Export-Import Bank is a little known federal institution with a very long history of aiding and abetting crony capitalism. But the agency has another, even worse, ascpet to its operations: it's been giving taxpayer-backed loans to deadbeats. According to the Government Accountability Office: