by Andrew Follett Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he wants to fight global warming using the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, but doing so will hurt the very people he claims to champion: everyday working Americans. NEWS: Sanders Statement on Effort to Repeal Clean Power Plan https://t.co/RTOq5VzMQJ pic.twitter.com/gXzEYMSyu5 — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 17, 2015…
From Russia Today: Around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces, the General Staff said. “In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ‘pipeline on wheels’ on the territories they control,”…
The political ideals of American Farm are no longer equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but sacrifice in the service of American Farm. by Joey Clark “It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk…
Damon Root writing in Reason Magazine offered his critical analysis of why the blustering by state governors about refusing Syrian refugees doesn’t hold any water. The U.S. Supreme Court provided an answer to these [refugee] questions in its 1915 decision in Truax v. Raich. At issue was the constitutionality of an Arizona law designed to…
After the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Charlie Hebdo has a simple message for ISIS. by Joey Clark The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire once pondered the modern phenomenon of “Dandyism” in an 1863 essay: “Contrary to what a lot of thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in…
By Lina Bryce 126 celebrities, musicians, and self-proclaimed “cultural leaders of America” excitedly announced their “new vision for our country” by endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for president recently. Some of these individuals, many natives of socialist countries, were in favor of Sanders over the socialist-lite, Hillary Clinton. There are others who openly endorsed the Vermont Senator who were…
Josh Fatzick Authorities in the nation’s capital are beefing up security around the monuments and in transportation hubs after a video from ISIS released Monday threatened terrorist attacks around the city. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority is ramping up random bag checks for people entering the D.C. subway system and putting additional officers at stations…
Josh Fatzick A suicidal transgender woman with a gun holed herself up in a downtown Washington office building for nearly twelve hours Monday, snarling traffic and generally causing chaos in the busy business district. Already on heightened alert after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Police shut down ten square blocks near the White House until…
Jonah Bennett France made history by being the first country in the European Union to invoke the mutual defense clause following the brutal attacks in Paris. The French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian invoked article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union while in Brussels, USA Today reports. According to the text of the clause,…
Steve Ambrose Some verbal jabs from a European official critical of PlayStation’s network security ignited unsubstantiated claims that PlayStation services were used in the Friday Paris terrorist attacks. Jan Jambon, the interior minister of Belgium, told Politico Nov. 10, the “most difficult communication between these terrorists is via PlayStation 4. It’s very, very difficult for our…