By Michael Bastasch President Obama has created two new national monuments in southeastern Utah and southern Nevada totalling 1.64 million acres, despite intense opposition from American Indians living in the area. Obama created the Bears Ears and Gold Butte national monuments using his powers under the Antiquities Act, adding to the 265 million acres of…
by Michael Bastasch President Obama has created two new national monuments in southeastern Utah and southern Nevada totalling 1.64 million acres, despite intense opposition from American Indians living in the area. Obama created the Bears Ears and Gold Butte national monuments using his powers under the Antiquities Act, adding to the 265 million acres of…
by Ted Goodman The National Basketball Association (NBA) has agreed to set up a union “hotline,” for players, as part of the new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). Starting next season, players can complain about specific officiating decisions or the referees themselves via a new telephone hotline and a monthly report that…
By Kevin Daley Eleven judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear a challenge to a local law which strictly limits where new gun retailers may be opened. A three-judge panel heard the case in May and sided with pro-Second Amendment activists, ruling their challenge to the law could proceed. The full…
By J.W. Holland For the majority of my forty years on this earth, I was a typical Republican voter. Growing up in a state that allowed straight ticket voting allowed me to vote without much research or inward reflection. Just check the red box and move along. Becoming directly involved in numerous campaigns and political…
By Blake Neff Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher is attempting to deflect criticism of a Christmas Eve tweet wishing for “white genocide” by claiming it was a satirical joke made at the expense of delusional white supremacists. But in a previously published philosophy paper, Ciccariello-Maher explicitly praised the systematic extermination of white people in Haiti…
By Ryan Pickrell The president of the Philippines made his second murder confession in a month Tuesday. President Rodrigo Duterte claimed he threw a kidnapper out of a helicopter mid-flight during his tenure as mayor of Davao. The president’s statements were intended as a warning to corrupt officials, reports the Philippine Star. “If you…
In the past year, we’ve seen more hospitals and healthcare service providers using electronic health records, EHRs, as part of their workflows. According to the MHA online department of Ohio University, while service providers gain a lot from implementing an electronic medical record system, the true benefits of EHRs are actually enjoyed by us patients….
By Jonah Bennett The Israeli government claimed Tuesday to possess “ironclad” information showing that the U.S., despite its denials, was behind the United Nations resolution decrying Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke with CNN, that detailed information, received from Arab sources, will soon be provided…
By Richard Pollock A federal court ruled Tuesday the U.S. attorney general can still get involved in supervising the release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, offering President-elect Donald Trump an opportunity to intervene in the controversial case. In fact, the law requires it, according to the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals…