Russ Read It is becoming increasingly clear that there are two interpretations regarding the fight against Islamic State: the first, a more complicated reality of the situation in Syria and especially Iraq, the second, the image of success against ISIS cultivated by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama continued to praise the recent success of…
Toni Ann Booras The American Civil Liberties Union took legal action Thursday to block a Kansas voter ID law ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The ACLU wants a federal judge to suspend the state’s voter ID requirement until the lawsuit it filed over the law in February goes through trial, set to begin in 2017, reported Reuters. The…
JP Carroll A topless woman angrily approached the Mexican president Wednesday while he was in Denmark for an official visit. According to Danish and Mexican media, a Swedish woman took off her shirt in front of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his wife as they were visiting a castle in Denmark. The protester belonged…
Casey Harper A Texas deputy constable has been hospitalized after he was ambushed and shot in the back four times late Wednesday. Two law enforcement officers pulled over for a traffic stop in Houston just before midnight Wednesday when an unknown gunman fired six shots at them, 9News reports. Four bullets hit Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton in the…
Guy Bentley Forcing restaurants, movie theaters, and grocery stores to put calorie counts and nutritional information on menus has no long-term impact on obesity. So says a new study from the Cato Institute, which draws on nearly 300,000 respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) who hail from 30 large cities between 2003…
By Jon Fye In January of 2012, the preparation for the coming Colorado Caucus was upon us. Our local Ron Paul group was training to understand the Colorado Caucus because we all wanted the opportunity to vote for the national delegates that the Colorado GOP would send on to the Republican Convention that summer. We were…
By Luis R. Rivera III The following is a contrast and comparison of the three candidates that participated in the 2016 Libertarian Party Debate showcased on FOX Business. More specifically, this contrast and comparison covers the candidates’ actual performances. It should be noted that this essay is not meant to be exhaustive, you can watch the…
By Blake Neff HBO’s new movie about the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is drawing fire from critics who say it warps the truth to vilify Thomas. The confirmation hearings for Thomas, held in 1991, turned into a major political battle after Anita Hill, who worked under Thomas while he was at the…
The British steel industry has been at crisis point since last month, when Indian based company, Tata Steel, announced it’s plan to close down its plant in Port Talbot, Wales. With the prospect of 40,000 British steel workers suddenly losing their jobs; politicians, the media, and the public are all very understandably anxious. However, this…
Ethan Barton It appears the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no plan to protect humans and wildlife if contaminates left behind after August’s Gold King Mine spill are stirred up and reach dangerous levels. The EPA spilled 880,000 pounds of dangerous metal waste, including lead and arsenic, into the Animas River in August 2015…