By Blake Neff Norway’s largest bank is scrambling to apologize after it inadvertently issued a credit card bearing a grossly anti-Semitic caricature. DNB ASA, a partly state-owned bank, issued the VISA card to an Australian man named Alexander Beckett who lives in Norway. The card shows a stereotypical hook-nosed Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl…
By Blake Neff A new poll released Tuesday suggests that Republican voters continue to believe President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, and that he was born outside the United States. In fact, Republicans are more likely to think Ted Cruz was born in the U.S. than Obama, even though Ted Cruz actually was born…
By Ivan Plis Images continue to emerge of Syrian child refugees, drowned while attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece. The latest photograph to blaze across social media depicts the body of a drowned 3-year-old named Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the shore of a Turkish beach resort. A second photograph shows a policeman grimly…
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. military just spotted five Chinese Navy ships off the coast of Alaska, just as President Barack Obama is finishing his three-day tour up north. This is the first time Chinese Navy ships have made an appearance in the Bering Sea, as tensions between the two countries continue to build, The Wall…
A woman attempting to dodge a DUI has been brought up on charges of bribery after she offered three different officers sexual favors if they didn’t charge her with a DUI or narcotics possession. 24-year-old Arielle Engert was arrested in Clearwater, Florida after failing to pass a series of sobriety tests and blowing a BAC at…
Presidential candidate and former CEO of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina has risen enough in polls to merit a critical examination of her record of policy statements. Her debate skills and articulate responses to difficult policy questions has given her the opportunity to be included in an upcoming CNN debate along with other major candidates. Fiorina’s outstanding…
By Jonah Bennett Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said he plans to open Marine infantry to women, but confirmed that physical standards will remain the same. The deadline for the services to seek exemptions keeping women out of certain military occupational specialties is fast approaching, Navy Times reports. The clock is ticking, as the deadline is set…
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush went after Donald Trump in Miami, saying “the man’s not a conservative” in Spanish. Bush seemed to take delight in criticizing Trump, who’s made headlines and climbed in polls attacking illegal immigration, and denigrating Mexican migrants as “rapists.” “El hombre no es conservador” — the man is not conservative, Bush said….
By Blake Neff A sociology professor at Duke University is making waves in what can be a rather dry field by publishing a paper with the provocative title “Fuck Nuance.” “Seriously, fuck it,” the abstract says. Professor Kieran Healy presented his paper last week at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association. Healy uses the paper…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos CNN has changed the criteria for its upcoming Republican presidential primary debate, clearing the way for Carly Fiorina to make it on the main stage, the network announced Tuesday. RELATED: 8 Critical Things To Know About Carly Fiorina Fiorina wowed in the second-tier debate in August, and has argued since that CNN’s…