By Steve Birr The former head of security for the Transportation Security Administration is on paid administrative leave and will be reassigned, not fired, despite being replaced after repeated security failures. Deputy TSA administrator Darby LaJoye replaced Kelly Hoggan Monday as security chief, but did not fire him. Hoggan will reportedly be reassigned and is…
By Juliegrace Brufke GOP lawmakers said the nation’s welfare system is keeping Americans trapped in poverty during the Ways and Means Committee hearing on the welfare system in 10 years Tuesday. “The current system is a disjointed maze of more than 80 different programs that have been layered on top of one another with little regard for…
By Jacob Bojesson The parents of two victims who died in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks wrote a letter to French President Francois Hollande, notifying him they will no longer pay taxes and by extension fund the president’s “jihadist friends.” The parents are furious with Hollande’s policies, which they claim allowed for the attack to happen. Paying…
Pro-Marijuana Activist Tommy Chong: Being Disinvited to Sanders Event was “an Insult” Earlier in 2016, actor Tommy Chong of the popular duo “Cheech and Chong” announced his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Among other things, Chong cited Sanders support of legalizing “the super-medicine, marijuana.” Chong is among many celebrities who have endorsed the…
By Bruce Cohen If you haven’t heard of Mary Matalin, you haven’t been paying attention. At least, not to politics. Her Website www.Matalin.info says this about her: …served under President Ronald Reagan, made her marks George H.W. Bush’s Campaign director and most recently as assistant to President George W. Bush, and as assistant and counselor to Vice…
Let’s get something straight: I think Idris Elba would make an awesome James Bond, I loved Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and I am not opposed to the premise of female Ghostbusters. I am not some alt-right reactionary who feels the need to take up intellectual arms in defense of white, heterosexual men….
By JP Carroll President Barack Obama signed the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015 May 16 and not a whole lot of people took notice, with the exception of scared Colombian farmers. The new law makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite and prosecute just about anyone involved in the drug trade, which means coca…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos In newly released 911 tapes, an abortion clinic worker describes the scene of a botched abortion, telling the operator “the fetus is breathing, so we need to care for it now.” The baby later died at the hospital. The incident happened in February at an Arizona family planning center, when a 27-year-old…
By Connor D. Wolf BALTIMORE, M.D. — Baltimore city residents expressed disappointment in response to the city circuit court Monday finding a police officer not guilty in connection to the death of Freddie Gray. Officer Edward Nero was charged with several misdemeanor offenses after Gray died April, 2015, in his custody. Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams found Nero not…
Ethan Barton New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court Monday over the Gold King Mine spill. Balderas filed the lawsuit on behalf of the New Mexico Environment Department, which argues the EPA’s response to the spill was inadequate, the Farmington Daily Times reported. Environmental Restoration LLC,…