Ex-Navy SEAL Punished for Not Requesting Pentagon Permission by Josh Guckert Matt Bissonnette is a former SEAL Team 6 member who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. On Friday, he agreed to forfeit $6.8M in book royalties and speaking fees to the government. This came after he failed to clear his disclosures with the…
Blake Neff The Democratic mayor of Petersburg, Va., has denounced all critics of his leadership as racist Republicans in a bizarre email replete with many grammatical errors. Petersburg, a city of just 32,000 people, is battling severe budgetary issues. It has an expected budget deficit of $12 million and over $19 million in unpaid bills. The…
By Micah J. Fleck Well, who would have thought? A government entity that can’t manage money. Only this time, it lied about this fact for years and only got found out in a recent audit. According to Reuters: The new report focused on the Army’s General Fund, the bigger of its two main accounts, with…
By Micah J. Fleck The news has once again rolled around that the EpiPen, a specific brand of epinephrine auto-injector, has risen in price astronomically – far beyond the normal rate of inflation. Most recently, the company behind the EpiPen, Mylan, has reportedly raised their price from $100 to $500 per pack – right…
Trump Sounded Different Sixteen Years Ago by Josh Guckert In a video from 2000, Donald Trump, states that third-parties must be permitted to debate. He called their exclusion “disgraceful” and said that it is “amazing that they can get away with it.” He goes on to describe Republicans and Democrats as “concerned” and “extremely nervous” about the prospects of a…
Blake Neff In a concession to activists who claim the song is offensive, the marching band at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) will no longer play the song “Dixie” as part of its routine at sporting events. “Dixie” was first published in 1860, just prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. Although…
Jonah Bennett Facebook recently banned the profile of respected journalist and academic Jonathan Spyer for mentioning the threat radical Islam poses to Europe, then later reinstated his account without explanation. The Middle East analyst and senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center had written a brief post mentioning specific keywords such as “Islamist” and…
Blake Neff Donald Trump said Thursday he regrets some of the remarks he has made while running for president, making a surprising concession in his first speech after a big campaign shakeup. “I regret it,” the Republican nominee told a crowd in North Carolina. “Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues,…
Clarke Says Politicians Have Thrown Police Overboard by Josh Guckert In an edition of Hannity which aired Wednesday, Sheriff David Clarke stated that President Obama is a “straight-up cop-hater.” One of the reasons Clarke used is that Obama opposes the “1033 program,” which deploys military surplus equipment to local police stations. Last year, Obama took steps…
by Russ Read Russia has killed more civilians in Syria than the Islamic State since Moscow began air strikes last year, a report from the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reveals. Russian attacks have killed approximately 2,704 civilians since its forces intervened in Syria last September. In comparison, ISIS has killed 2,686 civilians since it began its…