Jonah Bennett The Marine Corps is considering boosting acceptable weight limits for women. This potential switch in standards is reportedly intended to allow women to bulk up, in order to pass rigorous standards necessary to join ground combat units. With more muscle, these women will ideally suffer fewer injuries and slightly shrink the physical…
Casey Harper The Phoenix City Council has decided to give up the practice of praying before meetings out of fear a Satanic group will participate in the tradition. The council voted 5-4 Wednesday to replace its regular pre-meeting prayer with a simple moment of silence, the Arizona Republic reports. The kerfuffle began when Phoenix residents learned that a local…
JP Carroll The Venezuelan economy is doing so poorly that three dozen 747 airplanes had to fly in much-needed cash. Inflation will reach 720 percent this year in the oil rich country, according to the International Monetary Fund. While inflation is reaching an unprecedented rate, Venezuelan currency printing firms are unable to contend with the amount…
Michael Bastasch The National Parks Service (NPS) may be trying to stop an Arizona mining project by quickly and quietly creating a historical district on federal lands that would make such projects much harder to get approved. Federal lawmakers have sent letters to NPS demanding answers and have expressed worry the agency’s move is yet another…
Connor D. Wolf The Teamsters threatened to file a lawsuit Wednesday against West Virginia University in an effort to get emails related to what the union believes in a politically motivated right-to-work study. Right-to-work supporters in the state have used the study numerous times to justify the policy. The university released it in November…
Dr. Rand Paul, Thank you. I know you’ve heard it from many, but you deserve to hear it much more. On behalf of myself, my staff at The Libertarian Republic, and all our readers, thank you. It’s not just about how you kept us engaged and thrilled day after day in your ongoing battle against the…
Andrew Follett The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang (CWG) blog attempted to link the recent East Coast blizzard to global warming Wednesday, only to be shot down by veteran climate scientist Chip Knappenberger. “To me some folks at Capital Weather Gang are overly eager to link human-caused climate change to extreme weather events,” Knappenberger, a…
Casey Harper A Kansas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb a military base. John T. Booker Jr., 21, planned to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley military base in Manhattan, Kan., in April of 2015 in the name of ISIS. Agents arrested him following a months-long investigation. “If this…
Juliegrace Brufke Former Chief Restructuring Officer for the Department of Treasury Jim Millstein’s restructuring-advisory firm, MillCo Advisors, is reportedly raking in millions off of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. According to The New York Post, the former Obama official – who left the government agency in 2011 – could make as much as $52.4 million off…
Casey Harper The House Judiciary Committee passed a resolution Wednesday in an effort to rein in rampant executive overreach — a measure done largely in response to President Barack Obama’s overuse of executive orders. The resolution creates a task force to study executive overreach and ways to reduce it. Many in Congress believe the measure will…