Andrew Follett The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded grants of half-a-million dollars each Wednesday to eight “high-risk, high-reward” space technologies, including an interstellar spacecraft laser drive and research to put humans into a hibernation-like stasis for lengthy missions. Projects that received grants also include a habitat configured to allow astronauts to sleep deeply during…
By Ethan Barton A child-molesting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who was paid $55,000 to retire is only one of many bad agency employees who skirted termination, according to a congressional committee. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held its third hearing Wednesday focused on EPA employees who successfully avoided serious punishment or resigned or retired…
Guy Bentley In a Twitter exchange with Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, the FDA refused to accept that e-cigarettes are less harmful than combustible cigarettes. Dear @FDATobacco,are #Ecigs less harmful than smoking cigarettes to the individual user? A simple “yes” or “no” will do. — Jeff Stier (@JeffaStier)…
Given the choice to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, one woman heroically chose death. by Joey Clark It should be common knowledge to any thinking and respectable person that there are far worse things than one’s own death—the passing of a loved one, being tortured endlessly, or receiving…
Originally ran at The Liberty Conservative After being blasted on Breitbart as a “Republican spoiler” and “renegade Jew” for refusing to support GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump, founder and editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, is firing back. Taking in stride the comments from the Trump-adoring media outlet, Kristol recently purchased the web domain www.RenegadeParty.com and…
Luke Rosiak A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) worker fired for bringing a stun gun to work and repeatedly discharging it claims everyone else in her office just watches TV all day, so she doesn’t understand why she’s being singled out for rare discipline. The office in question is the “Non-VA Purchased Care Support Office,”…
By Richard Pollock Three of the top four officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have jumped from CFPB to lucrative posts representing financial services industry firms their former agency regulates, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The latest of the departures is Quyen Truong, formerly deputy general counsel, who accepted a position…
By Jonah Bennett After a long battle, the Senate finally confirmed Eric Fanning as 22nd Secretary of the Army, making him the first openly gay civilian head of the service in history. The final hold on Fanning’s confirmation broke after GOP Sen. Pat Roberts relented and moved the process forward, Defense News reports. Roberts delayed Fanning’s confirmation because he…
As someone who has been writing about the cannabis community and industry for the past several years, it has been interesting to watch the evolution of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) on the issue of recreational marijuana legalization. When Governor Hickenlooper was up for reelection in 2014 he called Colorado’s legalization “reckless” and warned other…
Pundits are declaring Trump’s win in Oregon as some sort of major victory. Truth is, despite being the only candidate in the race, more than 30% of the GOP voters decided they would rather cast their ballot for a candidate no longer running. How this is supposed to signal the GOP getting behind Trump is…