By Connor D. Wolf Arctic researchers in northern Russia have been taken hostage after five polar bears surrounded their weather research station. “People living in the Arctic must be prepared to face with a polar bear,” researcher Viktor Nikiforov said in a statement. “However, the station staff have no weapons. In addition, employees are not provided…
By Guy Bentley Uber’s lowest cost service has massively expanded access to cheap transport for low-income New Yorkers and serves people living outside the wealthy center far more than the city’s yellow taxi cartel, according to a new study. The Manhattan Institute study shows that while all UberX rides equated to only five percent of…
By Connor D. Wolf Legalizing marijuana in Arizona would lead to a flood of new tax revenue, eclipsing previous estimates, according to new analysis from the centrist think tank the Grand Canyon Institute. If Arizona voters decide to legalize recreational marijuana in a possible ballot initiative to be held in 2016, the state would benefit to…
By Connor D. Wolf The Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue gay marriage licenses may be out of legal options as she heads before a judge Thursday. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will stand before U.S. District Judge David Bunning for refusing to follow an order by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court refused her…
By Blake Neff Norway’s largest bank is scrambling to apologize after it inadvertently issued a credit card bearing a grossly anti-Semitic caricature. DNB ASA, a partly state-owned bank, issued the VISA card to an Australian man named Alexander Beckett who lives in Norway. The card shows a stereotypical hook-nosed Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl…
By Blake Neff A new poll released Tuesday suggests that Republican voters continue to believe President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, and that he was born outside the United States. In fact, Republicans are more likely to think Ted Cruz was born in the U.S. than Obama, even though Ted Cruz actually was born…
By Ivan Plis Images continue to emerge of Syrian child refugees, drowned while attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece. The latest photograph to blaze across social media depicts the body of a drowned 3-year-old named Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the shore of a Turkish beach resort. A second photograph shows a policeman grimly…
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. military just spotted five Chinese Navy ships off the coast of Alaska, just as President Barack Obama is finishing his three-day tour up north. This is the first time Chinese Navy ships have made an appearance in the Bering Sea, as tensions between the two countries continue to build, The Wall…
A woman attempting to dodge a DUI has been brought up on charges of bribery after she offered three different officers sexual favors if they didn’t charge her with a DUI or narcotics possession. 24-year-old Arielle Engert was arrested in Clearwater, Florida after failing to pass a series of sobriety tests and blowing a BAC at…
Presidential candidate and former CEO of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina has risen enough in polls to merit a critical examination of her record of policy statements. Her debate skills and articulate responses to difficult policy questions has given her the opportunity to be included in an upcoming CNN debate along with other major candidates. Fiorina’s outstanding…