by Phillip Stucky Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won’t run for president in 2020, Rubio told local radio station News Radio 970 WFLA Wednesday. “If I wanted to run for something else, I wouldn’t have run for Senate,” Rubio said. “My opponent keeps saying I’m gonna run for president. If I wanted to run for president…
by Michael Bastasch Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said she’s done talking to “climate deniers” who don’t think human activities are causing global warming. “If they haven’t figured out by now, what in God’s name could anyone say to them?” McCarthy said in a Facebook Live interview with Mashable Tuesday. “I don’t check out flat Earth…
by Robert Donachie Working directly with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet, according to an e-mail released through Wikileaks. Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, forwarded a memo detailing the “technical and digital priorities,” for the 2016 presidential race to John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton 2016 campaign,…
by Josh Guckert In a recently rediscovered interview, Donald Trump, Jr. makes a joke about the Aurora shooting on the same day it occurred. As reported by The Denver Post, Trump, Jr. appeared on the “Opie and Anthony” show on July 20, 2012. During the segment, the hosts played interviews with witnesses to the infamous…
by Saagar Enjeti Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has overtaken Libertarian nominee Gov. Gary Johnson among active duty U.S. military voters, according to a Military Times poll. A Sept. 21 poll of military voters previously found Johnson and Trump were effectively tied, each holding approximately 37 percent of support. Despite a slew of scandals in the last…
by Kevin Daley When Chief Justice John Roberts promised the Senate Judiciary Committee he would serve as the U.S. Supreme Court’s umpire — dutifully calling balls and strikes — he most certainly did not anticipate Justice Sonia Sotomayor swinging for the fences from the end of the bench. Sotomayor gave the Robert A. Stein Lecture at the…
by Ryan Pickrell An anti-American protest outside the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines took a violent turn when police ran over protesters with a van. For weeks, President Rodrigo Duterte has been bashing the U.S. in foul-mouthed tirades, stirring up anti-American sentiment in a country that has long been a staunch American ally. Around 1,000…
by Brett Chandrasekhar Though Gary Johnson was unable to reach the 15% cutoff to make the debates this year, there is another important number his supporters are hoping he’ll achieve. By hitting 5%, Johnson will make the Libertarian Party (LP) eligible for public funding for the presidential campaign in 2020. Many principled libertarians, however, are…
by Michael Bastasch Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton came out against a New Hampshire natural gas pipeline after privately telling trade unions she “does not oppose pipelines,” according to emails. Environmentalists cheered Clinton’s opposition to the pipeline, which they saw as bad for the climate, but trade unions quickly contacted the campaign concerned the former…
by Ted Goodman Minority employees working for The New York Times earn 10 percent less than the average wage, and female employees make 7 percent less than male coworkers, according to a new study. The News Guild of New York, a union which represents 3,000 journalists and media employees in New York-based media organizations, conducted a study in…