JP Carroll The President of Venezuela’s newly inaugurated legislative branch, called the National Assembly, announced the country’s conservatives will attempt to legally oust Socialist President Nicolas Maduro in six months. According to the Los Angeles Times, National Assembly President Henry Ramos Allup told National Assembly deputies in his inaugural address, “We will recover our autonomous power, pass…
Chris White The head of the U.S.’ biggest oil and natural gas lobby told a crowd of reporters and energy insiders Monday that free energy markets, not government intervention, kick-starts the innovations needed to both wean Americans off foreign oil. “The worst thing we can do is ask the government to intervene in energy markets,” American…
Jonah Bennett Paris police shot and killed a knife-wielding man Thursday, who tried to enter a police station yelling “Allahu Akbar” on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The attack took place in Paris, right after French President Francois Hollande gave a speech commemorating the attacks on Charlie Hebdo — a satirical magazine that poked fun…
Rand Paul gracefully deflected harsh criticism from Libertarian Party presidential hopeful Gary Johnson on Fox Business’s Kennedy yesterday and gave his thoughts on Johnson’s campaign. Paul does the wise thing here by refusing to play tit for tat with Johnson and rejecting the notion the two are in competition.
Kentucky Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Rand Paul was in hostile territory yesterday when he featured as a guest on the ultra-liberal daytime talk show The View. But the senator held his ground, defending the American right to bear arms. Host Whoopi Goldberg pleaded with Paul on gun control, saying she can’t understand how “anyone objects to getting…
ROY MOORE STRIKES BACK by Joey Clark Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has ordered AL probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, frustrating the United States Supreme Court’s landmark ruling from last year that legalized same-sex marriage across the nation. Roy Moore’s order declares: “Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders…
Andrew Follett Instability in the Middle East hasn’t led to an increase in oil prices thanks to the surge in American oil production caused by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to a Tuesday National Public Radio article. Historically, when political tensions increased in the Middle East, the price of oil rose, as the conflict could potentially interrupt…
Jonah Bennett Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered the Marine Corps to submit a plan by Jan. 15 to make the Marine Corps boot camp gender-neutral and remove the word “man” from job titles. In a letter dated Jan. 1, Mabus told Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller to construct a plan and make preparations to implement co-ed changes by…
Chris White After Nevada’s governor yanked solar power subsidies for customers, Elon Musk’s mega-solar panel company SolarCity decided to make good on its threat to drop 550 energy jobs in the state. Nevada’ Public Utilities Commission (PUC), guided by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, decided to change the state’s government-mandated solar metering rules last month. With the…
The mass sexual assaults that occurred on New Year’s Eve in the Germany cities of Cologne and Hamburg have received scant media attention. That’s because the perpetrators were all refugees from Syria. Europe’s media and the liberal media here have decided that this kind of story will just fan the flames of anti-refugee sentiments, so…