By Blake Neff Over 1,100 employees of the Chicago Public Schools are getting a pink slip, the school district announced Thursday afternoon. Five hundred fifty of the layoffs, about half, will be teachers, with an additional 600 being support personnel such as clerks and security guards. The newly announced dismissals are in addition to 147…
By Michael Bastasch President Obama is emphasizing global warming ahead of the November elections, but a new poll suggests he faces an uphill climb. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 35 percent of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to mankind is warming the Earth while another 18 percent says the world…
By Jonah Bennett The heightened controversy over the status of the US Export-Import Bank has been taken up by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday in an effort to come to terms on whether the bank’s charter will be renewed in September. The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), an 80-year-old federal agency, provides government-backed loans to…
The Libertarian Republic takes on the topic of actor Gary Oldman’s controversial statements in an interview with Playboy magazine. Oldman outed himself as a “libertarian” who hates political correctness and then went on to defend Mel Gibson and his anti-semitic statements that earned him the ire of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Oldman initially seemed to…
By Blake Neff A new survey of teachers in 34 countries finds that teachers in the United States work harder than their colleagues around the world, but are also happier than them. The survey was conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a global economic organization that primarily consists of Western, high-income democracies. The…
Taxi cab drivers in Washington D.C. are protesting against freedom by staging a major protest in the district. The streets of the capital are totally jammed with cabbies honking and creating a ruckus. Drivers are protesting against Uber and Lyft, which allow people to summon a car service on their mobile phones and pay with…
A new study into domestic violence is claiming to prove that in relationships women are more likely to be physically and verbally abusive than men. The University of Cumbria asked 1,000 people of both genders their experiences with domestic violence using a scale of aggression that ranged from simple verbal abuse to more aggressive physical…
Someone notify the World’s Dumbest Criminals! SEATTLE, WA – A 70-year-old woman is glad to be alive and still in position of her vehicle after three vicious thugs attempted to steal her car. The three men grabbed her keys, but they didn’t get far since none of them knew how to drive a stick shift….
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive Legislators in the state of New York passed a bill that would ban residents from taking photos of themselves with tigers. The law is a reaction to people taking photos of themselves with the tigers and posting it on dating websites. The…
By Jonah Bennett A massive 55,000-square-foot warehouse in Texas is the location the federal government has chosen to process the waves of unaccompanied migrant children showing up at the U.S. border, ABC News reports. The original information on the warehouse was obtained by the Associated Press through a public records request. The rate of illegal minors…