McAfee/Weiss Ticket’s 2nd Video Debuts by Avens O’Brien John McAfee‘s bid for the Libertarian nomination continues to heat up, as the campaign has gained a dynamic new campaign manager with Tiffany Madison, and has surged forward with volunteers and new marketing. This afternoon, Judd Weiss, McAfee’s VP pick, released the second video for the campaign, which…
By Russ Read U.S. forces have borrowed a strategy from Israel known as the “knock on the roof” in an apparent effort to minimize civilian casualties in the fight against Islamic State. As ISIS continues to suffer losses in Syria and Iraq, its forces have retreated to population centers in order to blend into the civilian population…
By Blake Neff Britain’s single-payer health care system descended into chaos Tuesday as thousands of the country’s junior doctors went on strike over a pay dispute. Junior doctors (roughly the equivalent of medical residents in the U.S.) have had intermittent work stoppages over the last few months, but until now they kept working in critical…
“Outsider” Chair Candidate Speaks About New Tech for the LP, Candidates, and the Importance of Local Politics By Avens O’Brien In my speech to the Libertarian Party of Minnesota in mid-April, I asserted that I had come back to the Libertarian Party after spending a few years avoiding the Party in favor of other liberty…
By JP Carroll Mexican cartel killers shot up the local federal police headquarters as well as a hotel known to be frequented by cops in the tourist town of Acapulco in what became a two-hour gun battle Sunday. The BBC reports that tourists and locals alike in the Las Playas area of Acapulco quickly fled to to…
By Steve Birr A track fire caused stress on the D.C. Metro Saturday as passengers had to be evacuated off a train for the second time in under two weeks, and Metro’s leader says it will continue to happen if the federal government doesn’t hand over more money. Metro Chairman Jack Evans is currently requesting $300…
By Juliegrace Brufke Americans can expect the cost of their health-insurance premiums to expand under Obamacare due to the hefty losses the law has caused for insurers. The Hill reports insurers are readying for the increases to make up for the financial strain they have faced since the president’s landmark health-care legislation was implemented. “There are…
By Blake Neff Fired University of Missouri (MU) professor Melissa Click is back, and now she’s claiming that sinister forces took away her job to send a warning to black people. “This is all about racial politics,” Click says in a lengthy and sympathetic profile in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “I’m a white lady….
By Richard Pollock Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of…
By Andrew Follett Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are causing an explosion in plant growth, according to a huge scientific study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study is the largest of its kind and was written by 32 scientists from 24 colleges and universities in eight countries. It used three long-term satellite records of plant area and 10 different global…