By Connor D. Wolf Weighing in on the importance of his campaign, presidential hopeful and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders noted if his campaign fails, it’s not just a reflection on him but also a reflection on his ideas. “If I do badly, and I don’t run a good campaign, and we don’t get our message…
By Blake Neff A Marine veteran diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been suspended from school and labeled a possible threat after requesting to have a non-Muslim counselor, Campus Reform reports. Jeremy Rawls served two tours in Iraq and is a rising senior at Mississippi College, a Baptist school with about 5,000 students. He says his academic career has been derailed since the college…
By Ivan Plis A hotshot lawyer in Kenya’s capital is prepared to offer President Barack Obama 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats for the hand of his 16-year-old daughter Malia. In an interview with The Nairobian, Felix Kaprono says he first “got interested in [Malia] in 2008,” when she was 9 and 10 years old during Obama’s…
Renewables Are Disruptive to Coal and Gas by Ramez Naam Over the last 5 years, the price of new wind power in the US has dropped 58% and the price of new solar power has dropped 78%. That’s the conclusion of investment firm Lazard Capital. The key graph is here (here’s a version with US…
By Ramez Naam Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have recently expressed concern that development of AI could lead to a ‘killer AI’ scenario, and potentially to the extinction of humanity. None of them are AI researchers or have worked substantially with AI that I know of. (Disclosure: I know Gates slightly from my…
A British research project found that women are buying sexual services more now than ever. Researchers believe that it has to do with the fact that busy women no longer have the time for intimate relationships. The initial findings come from Lancaster and Manchester Metropolitan University, and were conducted on a group of 21 male…
The mother of a four-year-old son, Heather Hironomus, tearfully signed an order allowing for the circumcision of her boy, so that she could be released from prison. The event has stirred a national debate about the necessity of circumcision, and the question of whether all children should be allowed the right to bodily integrity. Hironomus…
By Connor D. Wolf In the fevered debate over international trade, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and trade promotion authority have been used almost interchangeably. But in the end, they are not at all the same thing. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (And You): Simply put, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a major international trade deal between 12 countries that began negotiations…
The U.S. Navy is prepping an elite dive team to begin the process of raising an enemy warship from a Georgia river. The CSS Georgia, which was scuttled by its own crew to avoid capture by General William Sherman in 1864, will be pulled from the Savannah River. The heavily armored Georgia is considered an…
By Blake Neff A new decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals holds that New York’s state government has the right to ban “Choose Life” license plates on the grounds that such a statement is “patently offensive.” The dispute stems from a now-suspended program offered by New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) which…