by Phillip Stucky Former President Bill Clinton wanted a “young Latina celeb type” to join him on the campaign trail, according to hacked internal emails. “WJC asking if we should have a Latino surrogate do events with him,” Bill Clinton’s chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote in February. “Not sure that’s the focus for the…
by Saagar Enjeti FBI investigators found reams of classified information in the home and car of suspected NSA spy Harold T. Martin III. Martin reportedly had “six full banker’s boxes worth of documents,” along with nearly 20 terabytes of classified information in digital storage. Martin amassed multiple computers, thumb drives, and other digital storage devices, all…
by Eric Lieberman Website likes Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and many others are not working Friday morning, allegedly because unknown hackers attacked the servers of Dyn, which is a major domain name system (DNS) host. The attack is believed to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DNS is the technical network that converts website address names…
by Robert Donachie President Barack Obama compared Obamacare to phones that literally burst into flames at a Thursday speech at Miami Dade College. Touting his landmark healthcare bill to a crowd of thousands, Obama said: “The problems that may have arisen from the Affordable Care Act is not because government is too involved in the…
by Ted Goodman The Arlington Municipal Patrolman’s Association (AMPA), which is one of four police unions in the city, is contesting a new police department policy that prohibits association members from meeting with new academy recruits while off-duty and outside city property. The AMPA, which represents about 350 of the city’s 600 sworn officers, filed a lawsuit, arguing…
by Luke Rosiak An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) geologist said he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong by constantly watching pornography and masturbating on the job because he always finished his meager workload and his colleagues spent lots of time doing “personal” things, too. Besides boredom at work, the EPA employee said he watched pornography…
by Jacob Bojesson The British Army was accused of racism Wednesday after tweeting an image of a soldier wearing dark face paint as part of his camouflage. “Being a #soldier in the jungle requires a robust sense of humour,” read the tweet from the British Army’s official account. The account frequently tweets out images of troops…
by Josh Guckert In an interview with The Nation, Milo Yiannopoulos admitted what most have suspected for a while: that he is not really a libertarian. As reported by TJ Brown (a.k.a. That Guy T) of FEE.org, Yiannopoulos stated: Libertarians are children. Libertarians are people who have given up looking for an answer. This whole ‘everybody…
by Amber Randall University of Toronto faculty signed a letter criticizing hate speech against their transgender and black students in light of a fellow professor’s refusal to use “genderless pronouns.” Approximately 250 faculty members endorsed the letter, implying that Peterson’s statements are leading to a rise in threats against some of the students, reports Metro News….
by Andrew Follett NASA is sending the space probe New Horizons to an extremely unusual red object far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Dubbed 2014 MU69, the object has a diameter of about 30 miles and orbits the sun once every 293 years. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered 2014 MU69 during a preliminary survey to find a suitable object for the…