A San Francisco Jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, who said Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller gave him terminal cancer. The award consists of $40 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages. 

Consumer bankruptcies are surging, corporate debt has doubled since the last financial crisis, state and local government debt loads have never been higher, and the federal government has been adding more than a trillion dollars a year to the federal debt ever since Barack Obama entered the White House. On top of everything else, everyone else around the world has been on a massive debt binge as well. Unfortunately, all debt bubbles must burst eventually, and the one that we are in right now is definitely on borrowed time.

Today saw two arsonists charged with starting some of the deadly wildfires that have consumed well over half a million acres in California. There are now over 14,000 on the frontline with crews, including almost 2,000 inmates, 200 soldiers, and dozens of firefighters from overseas fighting fires and some are projecting that they may not get the fires under control until September.

Authorities looking for a missing 4-year-old Georgia boy say his father and another man were training nearly a dozen children at a remote New Mexico compound to commit school shootings.

We’ve all done it. Whether it’s from flipping through a magazine too quickly or licking the edge of an envelope so it can be sealed shut, we’ve all experienced the wrath of a papercut. The wound should look more like a Quentin Tarantino film for the amount of pain it causes, which begs the question—why does a papercut hurt so badly?

“…Rising discontent is gathering at an unstoppable pace, much to the alarm of the ruling elite… Brexit is going to be a sideshow to the problems of Europe that are becoming more and more evident.”

The Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Safety also wants to explore new funding to help arm certain school employees.

State taxes are collected on four economic activities: consumption (sales tax), labor and investment (income tax) and real-estate ownership (property tax). The affluent can escape sales and income taxes by moving to a new state—but real estate stays behind. Property values must ultimately support the obligations that politicians have promised, even if those obligations aren’t properly funded, because real estate is the only source of state and local revenue that can’t pick up and move elsewhere. Whether or not unfunded obligations are paid with property taxes, it’s the property that backs the obligations in the end.

“The Iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level”

An alarming number of older Americans are being forced into bankruptcy, as the rate of people 65 and older who have filed has never been higher – at three times what it was in 1991, while the rate of bankruptcies among Americans age 65 and older has more than doubled, according to a new study by the The Bankruptcy Project.

The Wallis Chamber of Commerce celebrated their annual banquet Saturday August 4, 2018 with a “Big Barn Bash”.

The Sheriffs’ Association of Texas has awarded the Sheriff J.W. Jankowski Memorial Scholarship for the 2018 Fall Semester to Heather Ruemke, daughter of Austin County Sheriff’s Office, Sgt. Billy Ruemke and Pam Ruemke. 

It won’t be AVs that single-handedly bring about that future on their own.

If the burden of proving its effectiveness was put on government, rather than liberty, vanishingly little of government would survive, but more market miracles would occur.

Retired teachers are now looking to the Texas Legislature to provide more money after a Teacher Retirement System vote Friday that could change how much retirees will see in their pension checks in the future.

If the majority of Americans think they are getting the short end of the stick on international trade, this sentiment ultimately affects how politicians campaign, how policy decisions are made, and the success of the wider economy…

The new feature is part of Microsoft’s “Defending Democracy Program”

For the first time in 55 months, the auto industry cut back spending on incentives. The result was a plunge in auto sales.

Activists want to increase minimum wage for tipped workers.

The debt-to-GDP ratio in the United States is now 106%, meaning that the national debt is larger than the size of the entire US economy. Yet the debt keeps growing. Rapidly. The problem is the way that it’s been used.