Jacob Bojesson The Internet has become a tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to keep its citizens in place. Through the web, the government surveills their every move and puts them behind bars if their online behavior is not in line with Beijing’s sentiment. Recently, Chinese officials began developing a social credit system in which the government keeps…
Jonah Bennett Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Friday that more claims about the agency should be fact-checked, just as he uttered a complete falsehood. “I’m always glad when veterans issues are raised, I just wish there would be more fact-checking on some of the numbers that are used,” McDonald said at the…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Since the Center for Medical Progress released the first undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood’s dealing in aborted fetuses in July, a series of missteps have plagued CMP’s rollout, media coverage of the videos, and Planned Parenthood’s response to the scandal. The story has been distorted from the start, from CMP’s insistence Planned Parenthood “profited”…
Andrew Follett A new study suggests that President Barack Obama’s oil policy could be responsible for China escalating its rhetoric and squaring off with the U.S. in the South China Sea. The United States can now reduce the global supply of energy, hurting Beijing. This ability stems largely from America’s increased production of oil and natural gas derived from hydraulic fracturing. China, on its end, interprets…
Jacob Bojesson While watching the Oct. 13 Democratic debate from his refuge in Moscow, Edward Snowden got a glimpse of hope for the future. Edward Snowden commented on the chances of him returning to the U.S. one day in an interview published Friday by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He said the words of Bernie Sanders and…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson pulled in $3.5 million in campaign donations this week after furiously fighting off media reports Friday that he lied about his childhood and admission into West Point. The $3.5 million was accompanied by 100,000 new followers on Facebook. “What I have always said about the media is being proven…
Geoffrey Ingersoll Democrats and unions who supported the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline blasted President Barack Obama after he announced Thursday he was rejecting the project following a seven-year federal review. Proponents of the pipeline said the administration is killing job creation and energy independence to pander to environmentalists, despite the State Department’s findings that…
Josh Fatzick The shadow senator for Washington, D.C., who is less a senator and more a lobbyist to Congress, is in Europe this week trying to get the city added to a list of unrepresented nations. Paul Strauss, one of two D.C. shadow senators who are tasked with pushing the cause of D.C. statehood, left…
Geoffrey Ingersoll The Department of State thinks that it’s just fine if Canada and Mexico decide to legalize recreational marijuana. State Spokesman John Kirby answered a question at a Thursday press briefing about whether the recent federal election in Canada, as well as the Mexican Supreme Court ruling, would impact crime cooperation. The ruling established…
Jonah Bennett A judge just killed the lawsuit of Jesse Snodgrass, an autistic teenager who officers arrested in 2013 after a female officer allegedly pretended to like him in order to entrap him in a drug distribution ring. The original charge against Snodgrass didn’t pass muster in court, so his parents Doug and Catherine went…