By Connor D. Wolf Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders toured a farmer’s market Sunday in downtown Los Angeles while failing to address how policies he supports have hurt local businesses. Sanders was followed by a large enthusiastic crowd as he walked through the historic downtown farmer’s market. He eventually left the city to have…
By Lina Bryce A 28-year-old Sikh, Sarwan Singh had been travelling in Punjab when he spotted a dog drowning in the canal. He says he didn’t hesitate for one instant , removing his turban to rescue the dog. Because Sarwan could not swim, he immediately fashioned a rope from his turban. That was when someone recorded the whole rescue….
Recently President Obama has been touting the “great economic recovery” that has been supposedly ushered in under his presidency. An interest rake hike coming out of the Federal Reserve this month would be the icing on the cake for this politically delicious narrative. All the signs of one happening were there: steady increases each month in the…
It’s a bit ironic; the people making Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ hats are mostly immigrants — people who don’t fit into Trump’s vision for America. For any other candidate this would be a non-issue. But for Trump, who has constantly lamented immigration and cheap labor as sources of economic hardship for Americans, it…
By Blake Neff The Arya scenes of Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” episode, “The Broken Man,” didn’t make any sense. Arya Stark has spent years on the run, seen repeated betrayals, come close to death countless times, and now she’s defected from an order of shapeshifting super-assassins who have explicitly warned they will kill her if she leaves. So…
By Lina Bryce These haunting images commemorate 72 years since D-Day, when 156,000 Allied forces made their daring attempt to invade and defeat Germany on June 6, 1942. Here are images and facts from that historic day and the invasion code named Operations Overlord and Neptune.
This election cycle is really giving emphasis to how horrible choosing the lesser of two evils can be. Most political arguments from supporters of either major party’s presumptive nominee center on an argument of how horrible the other candidate is. There is very little to sell in terms of positive messages this election year. Instead this…
With so many intent on turning this election into a contest of which candidate is worse, I thought it would be prudent to discuss what we stand to lose from both a Clinton and Trump presidency. Hillary Clinton recently refused to admit that individuals have a right to bear arms, openly dismissing the 2nd Amendment…
By Kevin Daley Pope Francis issued a new edict Saturday effectively countermanding a previous order and reflecting his ongoing struggle with interests entrenched inside the Roman Curia, the Vatican’s sprawling bureaucracy. The document is a motu proprio called “Like a loving mother,” which clarifies language and procedures governing the removal of bishops for negligence in clerical sexual abuse investigations. In…
By Chris White Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to dismiss the idea that Apple’s possible all-electric, self-driving vehicle, codenamed “Project Titan,” can compete with his empire, but there is evidence to suggest Musk should be concerned. Musk told attendees at a technology conference Wednesday he expects the maker of the iPhone and iPad will have…