by Ethan Barton More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show. The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa…
by Joseph Klare Norwegian black metal legend Fenriz of the band Darkthrone is learning a valuable lesson about civic duty thanks to his local neighborhood town council. In spite of a employing a campaign poster of himself with his cat which read “please don’t vote for me,” he won the election. Ole Fenny — if that…
by Josh Guckert Historical documents reported Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine suggest that in the 1960s, a sugar executive paid off Harvard researchers to downplay links to heart disease. One of those researchers eventually became the head of nutrition at the Department of Agriculture. In that role, he was able to influence current dietary guidelines, including…
by Josh Guckert In Weirton, West Virginia, Police Officer Stephen Mader was fired after refusing to shoot 23-year-old Ronald D. Williams Jr. on May 6. When Mader got to the scene, Williams was contemplating suicide, waving a gun and asking Mader to shoot him. Said the officer, “I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just…
In a Surprise Move, Feminists Defending the Rights of the Convicted in California By Avens O’Brien In August, the state legislature of California passed a bill to approve imposing mandatory minimums in sexual assault cases. This bill came about after the surprisingly short six-month sentence of Brock Turner for three counts of felony sexual assault…
by Jenna Ranger To those who are still looking for answers in what’s left of the rubble of the Twin Towers, 9/11 is a still unfolding tragedy. Many survivors struggle with PTSD, left to try and let go of the anger and frustration of having so many unanswered questions. Forty-one percent of the victims of 9/11…
by Brian Nichols Over the past few weeks, the NFL and public at large have been abuzz due to San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the National Anthem at the beginning of the final two preseason games of the NFL schedule. Considered many in the general public as a sign us…
At Saddleback College in California a group of conservative students, the Young American’s For Freedom, were denied the right to stage a 9/11 memorial on campus grounds. Upon hearing of their memorial’s rejection they consoled themselves by settling on erecting posters across the campus this week as the 15th anniversary of the attack quickly approaches….
Blake Neff A former student at Michigan Technological University (MTU) is suing the school, saying he was railroaded out of the university after an innocuous joke so the school could claim it was tough on racism. Matthew Schultz’s life suddenly fell apart last fall in the wake of racial protests at the University of Missouri and…
By Brett Chandrasekhar One of the beloved words of the left is the t-word: tolerance. But while they talk a good game, are they really that committed to it? Here are five ways libertarians are more tolerant than liberals. 1) Anti-minimum wage As economist Walter Block states, the minimum wage “is an unemployment law [….