By Chuck Ross All twenty female U.S. senators are sending a letter to President Obama asking for intervention on behalf of over 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped last month by Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization. “As the women of the United States Senate, we are writing to you today deeply disturbed by the abduction and…
By Sarah Hurtubise Just one of Obamacare’s many taxes could cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade, according to an industry report published Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Business projects that between 152,000 and 286,000 jobs will be lost by 2023 due to Obamacare’s health insurance tax. NFIB, a nonprofit association…
CHICAGO, IL – Miata Phelan is in jail, accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death because he didn’t buy her anything at the shopping mall. Phelan had been on a trip to the mall with her boyfriend Larry Martin, along with his 25-year-old cousin and 8-year-old son. On the way home, Phelan accused Martin of…
By Breanna Deutsch Electronic cigarettes may eventually replace nicotine gum and other smoking-cessation products as a medical tool to help addicts quit. Leading the charge is the American-based e-cigarette company, Thermo-Essence Technologies, which has developed an advanced device that delivers controlled amounts of nicotine to users and shares the addict’s information with his or her…
By Michael Bastasch Liberal billionaire Warren Buffett would do anything to lower the tax rate of his company Berkshire Hathaway, including building unprofitable wind turbines to get federal government tax credits. “I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate,” Buffett told an audience in Omaha, Nebraska this…
By Michael Bastasch Climate scientists have said the White House’s National Climate Assessment (NCA) resembles pseudoscience more than actual science. The National Climate Data Center released its third NCA on Tuesday, which warns of an ever-worsening environment and extreme temperature rises due to man-made carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. But it has been panned in…
By Brendan Bordelon MSNBC will apologize for an allegedly racist segment depicting a sombrero-wearing, tequila-guzzling Mexican on the morning of Cinco de Mayo, after the president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists demanded the network make amends. The offending clip aired Monday morning at 7 AM, just as MSNBC host Thomas Robert’s “Way Too…
Senator Rand Paul has been described as many things, a constitutional conservative, a Republican, and a libertarian. But is he any of these things, or a mixture of all?
By Sarah Hurtubise A survey of health care benefits managers found that most expect Obamacare to raise the cost of health care, The Hill reports. A poll by PlanSource, a health care software provider, found that of 266 health care benefits decision-makers, including chief financial officers, human resources officers and benefits managers, 60 percent believe the health…
By Chuck Ross A new video shows a leader of the Islamic terror organization Boko Haram saying that Allah commands the group to sell the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls it kidnapped last month as slaves.“I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,” said Boko Haram leader Abubaker Shekau in a video…