By Jonah Bennett Army plans indicate military officials will cut 40,000 troops from the force over a period of two years. Neither domestic nor foreign outposts are exempt from the cuts, according to a document obtained by USA Today. The end result would be a total of 450,000 troops. Any lower than this number, and the Army may not succeed…
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By Blake Neff A new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found that the massive investment in grants and student loans by the federal government is a major contributor to the unbridled growth in the cost of attending college. College tuition rates have consistently risen faster than inflation for some 25 years. One theory for…
By Josh Fatzick This spokesperson had a pretty bad day last week when a reporter cornered her boss, St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green, to ask about the $26,000 the city was spending to provide her with a take-home car. “No, no, no,” Melanie Streeper said over and over to KTVI2 reporter Elliott Davis as he…
Does WaPo Really Want To Take The Name Of A ‘Slaveholder’ Out Of Its Masthead? By Josh Fatzick A columnist for The Washington Post published an Op-Ed Monday arguing that the newspaper needs to drop the “Washington” from its name because George Washington, after whom the paper is indirectly named, owned slaves. Marc Thiessen goes on…
By Josh Fatzick After the earthquakes that rocked Haiti in 2010 left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, Bill Clinton’s half-brother promised a Houston businessman he could help land contracts to rebuild. Roger Clinton took $100,000 from the man on the promise that influence from his brother could get him a contract through the Clinton…
By Jonah Bennett An F-16 collided with a Cessna C150 about 11 miles north of Charleston, S.C. Tuesday morning. The F-16 was not from the South Carolina Air National Guard, WYFF4 reports. While the status of the Cessna pilot is unknown, the military pilot from the F-16 was apparently able to safely eject prior to the…
KIEL, GERMANY – Prosecutors are investigating a 78-year-old man after it was reported that he might be in violation of Germany’s War Weapons Control Act… for owning a Nazi Panther tank. It took 20 hours to remove the enormous World War II era tank from the man’s cellar… which makes us wonder, just how big is…
By Michael Bastasch In 2008, Dr. Ivar Giaever joined over 70 Nobel Science Laureates in endorsing Barack Obama for president, but seven years later the Nobel Prize winner now stands against the president on global warming. “I would say that basically global warming is a non-problem,” Giaever, who won the Nobel for physics in 1973, told an audience at…
By Michael Bastasch Oil may be black gold, but human breast milk has become white gold and it’s worth way more than crude oil. The Associated Press reports that human breast milk “could trade for 400 times more than the price of crude oil and 2,000 times more than iron ore.” Not only that, people will pay…