Blake Neff A former Obama administration official and Harvard University president said college campuses are becoming a place of “creeping totalitarianism” in a recent interview with The Weekly Standard. Lawrence Summers served as director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. Before that, he served as Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and…
JP Carroll Amnesty International and Africa Resource Watch have published a report alleging Fortune 100 tech firms like Apple and Microsoft use cobalt mined by children in Africa. The report focuses on cobalt mining in the war-torn Democratic Republic of The Congo and how Chinese mining firms provide Congolese cobalt to tech giants. Amnesty International names…
Kathryn Watson General Services Administration (GSA) officials designed a $75 million federal law enforcement facility so unsuited to what the intended occupants needed that they couldn’t use the building when it was completed, according to the Government Accountability Office. GSA, already notorious for wasteful spending on conferences and employee videos, didn’t talk to the Federal Protective Service (FPS)…
Connor D. Wolf Six minimum wage advocates were arrested Monday during a rally at Logan International Airport in Boston for refusing to comply with state police. The protest was part of a national movement aimed at bringing attention to low-wage airport workers and a $15 minimum wage. State police were forced to take action after…
Andrew Follett Oil prices are set to rise again due to growing foreign demand, which could set the stage for another American oil boom built on the infrastructure of the first fracking boom, according to an economist who works on energy issues. “Even with China’s economy slowing, global oil use will still rise by 1.3 million barrels…
Hillary Clinton claims she never sent or received any information marked classified through her private email server arrangement. An unclassified letter from an Inspector General tells a different story. by Joey Clark A letter obtained by Fox News from Inspector General Charles McCullough III shows Hillary Clinton’s private server contains information from the U.S. governments…
Long before Austin Petersen entered the US presidential race, the gutters of the Libertarian Party, online chat rooms, and social media collectives, foamed at the mouth and fought tooth and nail in a figurative sense of the ideas of “purism”. With libertarians owning a large amount of the conversation in terms of online presence, a…
Rachel Stoltzfoos A federal judge ruled Tuesday the Obama administration can’t use executive privilege to shield Operation Fast and Furious documents from Congress, and ordered the administration to turn over the requested documents. Public disclosures from the Department of Justice (DOJ) about its response to the botched operation undercut the administration’s attempt to invoke executive privilege,…
Casey Harper A Minnesota cop has been put on leave after allegedly writing a Facebook post that infuriated Black Lives Matter advocates and appalled local officials. Black Lives Matter activists blocked traffic Monday with one of their protests. In response, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jeffrey Roth allegedly wrote on Facebook that locals should run over the…
Chris White An innovation group Tuesday awarded its annual Luddite Award to a group of techno-luminaries espousing anti-artificial intelligence (AI) rhetoric. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) foisted the Luddite Award honor on various groups of technologists and scientists critical of AI, but aimed the bulk of its scorn at physicist Stephen Hawking and…