Less than a week after Donald Trump acquired the 1,237 delegates needed to grasp the nomination at the July convention sponsors are beginning to shy away, seeing that what they once thought was going to be a contested convention is now a reluctant coronation of Trump. Which, due to his complicated and often negative relationship with…
This past weekend former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson won the 2016 Libertarian Party nomination for President. This fall he will do battle with the presumptive nominees from the GOP and Democratic Party; Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And as far as the presidential race is concerned, Governor Gary Johnson is Mary Jane’s last chance…
By Ted Goodman The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started its unprecedented wireless spectrum auction Tuesday. The FCC is buying the spectrum rights of participating television stations in a “reverse auction” that started at 10 a.m. In the reverse auction, broadcasters will bid downward against each other to sell their spectrum rights to the FCC. It…
By Andrew Follett A forestry company filed a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against Greenpeace Tuesday for misrepresenting the company’s environmental record to raise funds and promote its agenda. Greenpeace knowingly and deliberately made false claims about the company while fundraising, and fabricated evidence of Resolute’s alleged environmental malfeasance, according to the forestry and paper company Resolute…
Last week Hamilton County, OH Municipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard was deciding cases in his courtroom when the overwhelming odor of marijuana caused him to stop the proceedings. “This courtroom has an overwhelming smell of marijuana,” the judge said. “So whomever has it, if you want to give it up right now it’s going to…
By Casey Harper A 74-year-old volunteer cop has received the maximum sentence for killing an unarmed black man. A Tulsa County judge sentenced Robert Bates to four years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting Eric Harris in April of 2015. Bates, who is white, was serving as a volunteer deputy during an illegal gun sales sting,…
By Saagar Enjeti Two American service members were injured in separate instances over the weekend in Iraq and Syria. Both were engaged in advise and assist missions with indigenous forces fighting Islamic State when they were hit by “indirect fire.” Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis insisted they were not present on the front lines or engaged in “active combat.” When pressured…
By Blake Neff The “playbook” for Trump University employees has been revealed as part of a massive trove of documents that were unsealed Sunday by court order. The playbook reveals the aggressive sales tactics used by the seminar program to convince people to part with thousands of dollars. An on-going class action lawsuit against Trump University,…
North Korea doesn’t have an independent media; so when an editorial runs praising Donald Trump, that’s basically the tyrannical government endorsing him. Trump supporters must be scratching their heads at the notion that one of the U.S.’s most aggressive enemies is hoping their man becomes president. After all, they believe Trump to be a man…
By Andrew Follett The study, published late last week, generated results that don’t support its conclusions, according to a leading radiation researcher. Dr. Rodney Croft, the director of the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research, argues in an article published by a medical news site Monday that the study exposed the mice to far more radiation than cell phones actually…