By Jonah Bennett Pentagon officials told The Associated Press on Monday that the military is currently finalizing plans to remove the ban on transgendered servicemembers. An official announcement from the Department of Defense is expected later this week. The ban won’t be lifted immediately. Instead, the Pentagon plans to give all services approximately 6 months…
By Blake Neff Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed the business model of Uber and other companies built on the sharing economy in an economic policy speech Monday. Federal Elections Commission data reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation, however, shows that Hillary’s biggest supporters decisively favored Uber over conventional cabs by a 25:1 margin. Uber, which…
By Blake Neff A professor at the University of California, Riverside has fired back at critics who say she’s faking her American Indian ancestry by simply insisting she is one, with absolutely no evidence. Andrea Smith is recognized as a major figure in Native American studies, and has repeatedly claimed Cherokee heritage and allowed herself to…
By Michael Bastasch Is the world on the verge of another “Little Ice Age”? Scientists with the University of Northumbria say the world could plunge into another mini ice age within the next 15 years as solar activity declines. Prof. Valentina Zharkova presented a new solar model to those gathered at the National Astronomy Meeting…
By Connor D. Wolf In an apparent response to San Francisco raising its minimum wage to a new national high, local Chipotles have raised prices just as dramatically. “We believe the outsized San Francisco price hike was likely because of increased minimum wages,” an investors report, obtained by the American Enterprise Institute, detailed. The report was…
Mark Dice is at it again. It’s hard not to love this guy, despite his kooky conspiracy theory stuff. Dice asked people if they wanted to have a bar of silver bullion (worth $150) or a bar of chocolate. Guess which one they preferred? This is how bad our monetary education is in the United…
By Casey Harper During the Miss USA 2015 contest Sunday, Miss Texas and soon to be first runner up, Ylianna Guerra, dropped some honesty on the audience — and they loved it. Guerra made it to the question answering portion and judge and former Miss Universe Michelle McClean-Bailey posed this question: “Last year, CEOs in the United States…
Amazon Says ‘No Evidence’ Cruz Books Sold In Bulk Purchases By Rachel Stoltzfoos Amazon backed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in his fight against The New York Times Monday, saying there is “no evidence” his book sales are driven by “strategic bulk purchases.” The Cruz campaign accused TheNYT Friday of lying when it said his new book, “A Time For…
Taxpayers Funded ‘Bizarre Quasi-Communist’ San Francisco Mime Troupe By Kathryn Watson Most American taxpayers probably don’t know their hard-earned dollars funded a politically charged mime troupe in San Francisco, but that happened. The troupe is just one of the many examples cited in Rep. Steve Russell’s second issue of Waste Watch, which the freshman Republican…
By Geoffrey Ingersoll A Texas-based fast food chain is going counter to Texas culture when it comes to gun rights. Whataburger, which has nearly 800 locations in 10 states, announced that Texas customers will be denied the right to open carry their weapons, even though the state’s governor signed a bill last month to allow open carry, the…