Blake Neff Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered his advisers to “draw up plans” for an independent presidential run thanks to continued strength of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders, The New York Times reported Saturday. According to the Times, Bloomberg is now seriously considering a run in a way he hasn’t before,…
Blake Neff A professor at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), is at the center of an epic meltdown over an upcoming visit by conservative author Ben Shapiro. It all started when CSULA’s branch of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth organization, announced that Shapiro would be appearing Feb. 25 for a lecture title “When Diversity Becomes a…
Saturday Night Live Has Field Day with Palin and Trump by Josh Guckert On Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey returned to reprise her role as Sarah Palin and Darrell Hammond returned to impersonate Donald Trump in reenacting the former’s endorsement of the latter. Likely one of the easiest political sketches to write in SNL’s history, Hammond’s Trump marvels at…
A tragic school shooting that left four dead in a small town in northern Saskatchewan is receiving scant attention by the American media. You can rest assured our president won’t begin to lecture Canadians about guns. After all, Canada has rigid gun control laws. President Obama assured us tragedies like this don’t happen in other countries….
Kathryn Watson Federal Aviation Administration officials are missing more than $32.5 million in taxpayer-funded property, according to a new Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General report. That’s about 15,000 pieces of property each of which is worth $100,000 or less, and could be anything from computers to utility vehicles. The agency responsible for regulating…
Guy Bentley A Swiss study claiming vaping can lead to smoking and harms current smokers’ chance of quitting suffers from “fatal” flaws, and the paper’s conclusions are misrepresentative, according to a leading public health expert. “We found no beneficial effects of vaping at follow-up for either smoking cessation or smoking reduction,” the authors conclude in the…
Jonah Bennett The USS Fort Worth, a Navy littoral combat ship, has suffered extensive gear damage while docked at a port in Singapore. The Navy is blaming the incident on a crew error. According to reports, the crew failed to use sufficient lube oil, leading to excessively high temperatures on the gears. Debris also found…
The Army’s Old Guard remains at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Friday, staring into the face of winter storm Jonas while the rest of the region takes shelter. "I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved." #Blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/A3aWiF6wmp — The Old Guard (@USArmyOldGuard) January…
Guy Bentley Democratic presidential candidate and senator Bernie Sanders is being lambasted for misunderstanding the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court, following a tweet Friday he has since deleted. Sanders tweeted “any Supreme Court nominee of mine will make overturning Citizens United one of their first decisions.” Any Supreme Court nominee of mine will…
Joy Behar, co-host of The View, expressed her surprise that Donald Trump shares many positions with socialist Bernie Sanders. Super liberal, socialist Bernie Sanders supporter Joy Behar says trump “isn’t as bad” as the rest of the GOP. In fact she sings his praises on everything from taxing the rich to socialized healthcare. “You know, I’m…