by Kaytee Moyer Allegations of chaos and voter fraud at the Nevada GOP Caucuses spread like wild fire over the internet as the caucuses unfolded last evening. Reports via Twitter indicated that many caucus locations were overwhelmed by the high numbers of caucus-goers that showed up. Some locations quickly ran out of ballots while others,…
Immigrants are a Benefit, Not a Detriment by Ben Ramanauskas The Republican Presidential debates have been dominated by one topic: immigration. The majority of the candidates have attempted to outdo each other with their anti-immigrant rhetoric. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two front-runners, have both promised to build a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico….
Blake Neff A Canadian judge has struck down a recently deceased doctor’s plan to create a scholarship for heterosexual white men on the grounds it is “contrary to public policy.” Radiologist Victor Priebe died on New Year’s Day 2015, and included a provision in his will to establish a scholarship with an unusual stipulation. The…
Juliegrace Brufke In a letter written to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, GOP members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary said they won’t hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s expected nomination to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat in the wake of his death. Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa in addition to…
Shkreli is Wrong, But Only Responding to Government Incentives by Ben Ramanauskas Martin Shkreli has managed to engender feelings of revulsion in the vast majority of the population. He incurred widespread odium when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the drug Daraprim, which is commonly used to treat toxoplasmosis, which kills people with weakened immune systems, such…
Sanders Doesn’t Understand Why Canadian Pharmaceutical Industry isn’t that Great [dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]nce again, Bernie Sanders has taken to Twitter to educate us all on how great the Canadian healthcare system is. The Vermont Senator is a big fan of the Canadian “universal” healthcare system, and therefore infers that because the government pays for their prescription…
by Ben Ramanauskas On May 31, 1980, three gang members stormed into the Hong Kong apartment of a prostitute, Madame Lam. She was to be the primary witness at the trio’s murder trial. One of the gangsters had rang Madam Lam’s doorbell in the afternoon and thinking he was a client, her husband—as he habitually did—withdrew…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who dropped out earlier this month, isn’t going to endorse anyone in the ongoing contest for the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Paul is facing a reelection Senate campaign against Jim Gray, the former Democratic mayor of Lexington. When asked whether he was going to endorse anyone, he simply said,”No.” Some of…
By Guy Bentley The two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination are mostly associated with dishonesty and socialism, according to the latest Gallup poll. The public’s impression of Hillary Clinton leaves much to be desired. The words that first spring to mind when the public hears Clinton’s name are “dishonest/liar/don’t trust her/poor character.” Clinton’s only…
by Elias J. Atienza Actor Adam Baldwin of the TNT show “The Last Ship” has officially jumped off the ship known as Twitter. Coming after Twitter has announced a ‘Trust and Safety Council’ and allegedly started “shadowbanning” accounts, Baldwin is just one of many people leaving the platform. He told the Independent Journal Review that Twitter’s…