By Jonah Bennett Despite recent scandals at the Veterans Affairs Department, according to the Office of Personnel Management, the firing rate for the federal government has reached its lowest point in five years,reports the Federal Times. In 2009, the number of federal workers fired amounted to 11,564, but there has been a steady decline to only…
By Michael Bastasch Researchers with Israel’s Weizmann Institute have found that man-made aerosol emissions have had a net cooling effect on the planet since the Industrial Revolution. The idea is that few clouds may have populated the skies before the Industrial Revolution, but the increased aerosol emissions from man-made industrial sources may have actually increased…
By Blake Neff Former presidential candidate and Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is telling parents to ditch Common Core, and try out his vision of homeschooling instead. In his essay written for Campaign for Liberty, Paul derides Common Core as a “curriculum developed by federal bureaucrats and education ‘experts.’” He complains that the new standards replace…
A man in Jackson, Mississippi was hospitalized after he pulled a gun on a man outside an apartment complex. The would-be thief pointed a gun at a man outside the buildings and said, “I bet you don’t have one of these.” It turns out… he did have one of “these.” The thief was shot and…
CROWLEY, TX – A mother was arrested after she forced six children to ride on top of her car because she didn’t want them to get the seats wet. Kisha Young was arrested on allegations of intoxicated assault after she flung four of the six children from the top of the car when she took…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration’s foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline may be pleasing environmentalists but it’s damaging economic and political ties between the U.S. and its biggest trading partner: Canada. The Canadian government has been lobbying the Obama administration to approve the pipeline for years now, but the White House has been bowing…
NBC is reporting that the deadliest ever ‘out of control’ outbreak of Ebola is spreading across West Africa and is likely to get even worse. The infection has spread and killed at least 300 people in three countries, with many cases going unreported and with some people who are fleeing the virus spreading it even…
By Greg Campbell Despite calls for boycotts from people upset about Colorado’s new laws on gun control and legal pot, the state broke almost every tourism record in 2013, with out-of-state visitors spending more than $4 billion for the first time. That’s a 12 percent increase over 2012, reported Visit Denver, the city’s tourism and convention bureau,…
By Blake Neff Schools in the United Kingdom are banned from teaching creationism following a clarification of regulations released by the UK government last week. The new documents make plain that any school receiving public funds, which includes many church-run schools, will violate the Funding Agreement with the government if it teaches creationism as a scientifically valid…
By Greg Campbell Federal agents seized 350 pounds of Canadian hemp seeds bound for a Colorado farm, despite that hemp cultivation in states that permit it is legal under the recently passed federal farm bill. Hemp farming is permitted in both Colorado, which also legalized adult use of marijuana in 2012, and in North Dakota,…