By Michael Bastasch For weeks, the media has focused on “faithless electors” not casting their votes for President-elect Donald Trump, but it turns out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a bigger problem in this arena. In fact, Clinton had more “faithless electors” than any presidential candidate in more than a century. Seven electors…
By Andrew Follett A faithless elector in Texas voted Monday for the libertarian former Rep. Ron Paul, which is one more electoral vote than Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson received. Paul was not a candidate in the presidential election and did not receive enough popular votes in the 2016 election to be worth counting by any…
by Publius If it’s been said once, it’s been said a million times. Pundits and politicians have no ethics. In light of the election of Donald Trump, many have looked for ways to put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court despite a GOP majority in the Senate. These outlets include New Republic and notable rag, Daily Kos. Each…
by Chris White The Washington Post blamed the Electoral College for making so-called man-made global warming nearly impossible to “thwart.” The last two U.S. presidents who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College have actively worked against efforts to end global warming, Todd Cort, the co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment,…
by Phillip Stucky Anti-gun activist group Betsy Riot launched a letter-writing campaign that targeted elected officials nationwide in November, and the letters continue to pour in. Below is an unedited transcript with the group, and it reveals a very important undercurrent of liberal ideology. The activists sent violent images of people with self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the families…
by Jonah Bennett Thirteen thousand troops will be on hand to provide security and support for GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. There will be 5,000 active-duty troops and 8,000 National Guard members from around the country at the inauguration, continuing a tradition that dates back to 1789, the first ever inauguration, according to…
by Blake Neff CNN’s online coverage of Monday’s deadly terror attack on a German Christmas market focused on the attack’s potential to stoke far-right anger, rather than the threats of Islamic radicalism. The attack in Berlin killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more, but on CNN’s website, the network’s top story warned about…
by Josh Guckert The 2016 presidential election has fittingly ended in perhaps the most strange turn of events in recent American history. While President-elect Donald Trump did receive an adequate number of electoral votes to assume the presidency on January 20, there were six faithless electors in the presidential vote, the most since 1808, when six New…
Anyone Who Reads About Russian Hacks And Donald Trump Should Read This First By Rachel Stoltzfoos The reports on the intelligence community’s (IC) alleged conclusion that Russia wanted President-elect Donald Trump to win the election have been, in a word, schizophrenic. They’re also drawing on some odd sourcing. The Washington Post broke the story, reporting…
By Michael Bastasch The U.S. Navy has spent more than $58 million on alternative fuels for its “Great Green Fleet,” according to a Senate report on Pentagon waste. The report, by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain’s office, found the Navy’s goal of weaning itself off petroleum products has cost taxpayers millions of dollars and did…