By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush awkwardly chest bumps his brother George W. in behind-the-scenes footage released by his campaign Tuesday. “Oh!” someone says in surprise as Jeb approaches his brother and goes in for the chest bump, to wide laughter. “Thanks,” Jeb says to Bush, apparently referring to his help campaigning for…
Jimmy Kimmel plays Donald Trump and has an insightful and funny heart-to-heart chat with the cast of Fuller House. https://www.facebook.com/FallonTonight/videos/10153964386848896/
by Elias J. Atienza According to an exclusive with Breitbart Tech, Twitter is apparently ‘shadowbanning’ accounts that are ‘politically inconvenient.’ This comes from a source inside the company who spoke with Breitbart Tech. According to the article, this has been corroborated by a senior editor at a ‘major publisher.’ The source claims that Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favored…
How a candidate is perceived is more important than where they actually stand. If anything has been proven true this election cycle, it is that public perception trumps facts. This is the secret that Donald Trump and even Bernie Sanders have tapped into. It doesn’t matter how much reality clashes with their rhetoric, because their campaigns are…
by Blake Neff A newly-released poll conducted by Democrat-aligned Public Policy Polling (PPP) appears to have been deliberately designed to ferret out any possible racism among South Carolina’s Republican voters. But the attempt largely seems to have failed. The poll released Tuesday asks 33 questions, and most of them are basic for just about any poll…
by Connor D. Wolf A handful of states are considering bills designed to outlaw local minimum wage ordinances in a time when advocates have seen their biggest successes at the city level. Idaho, Alabama and Washington are all considering banning localities like cities from enacting their own minimum wages. The highest minimum wages, however, have been…
by Ethan Barton Six obscure nonprofits funded almost entirely by federal taxpayers in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that recruits technically skilled seniors for cheap labor are “scandals waiting to happen,” according to an expert on advocacy groups. “The idea of government funding charitable works ought to be something conservatives and libertarians are concerned…
by Connor D. Wolf Welfare has often been criticized as a program that traps people in perpetual poverty, but a Tuesday report finds that working recipients are at reduced risk of this threat. The welfare system consists of many different local and federal programs aimed to help those in need — but it often traps people…
by Michael Bastasch The Obama administration has vowed to sign a United Nations global warming deal in April, despite intense opposition from the Senate and a Supreme Court ruling derailing the government’s green regulatory scheme. “We’re going to go ahead and sign the agreement this year,” Todd Stern, the U.S.’s climate envoy told reporters Tuesday, brushing…
by Andrew Follett Americans are enjoying cheap energy with the average price of gasoline at only $1.70 per gallon and natural gas near historic lows. Thanks to #shale & #fracking, Americans’ share of spending on energy fell to <4% in December, 3rd lowest level ever pic.twitter.com/9Syuy1NPyv — Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) February 15, 2016 In fact, Americans…