By Jonah Bennett Published: April 6, 2015 Troops in special operations units, of both genders, are overwhelmingly concerned that political pressure will cause leaders to cave on important training standards, a series of surveys conducted by the Associated Press and RAND Corporation reveals. The surveys, which went out to 18,000 special operations troops and had…
by Josh Guckert April 7, 2015 Government Agencies Are Out of Control When George Washington became President, his cabinet consisted of only an Attorney General and the Secretaries of State, War and Treasury. Needless to say, in the two centuries since then, government bureaucracy has gotten completely out of control, and it has become nearly impossible…
By Jonah Bennett Elon Musk has made millions from government solar panel subsidies, and may have found a way to make even more if rumors Tesla will soon introduce a whole-home battery are true. Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and chairman of solar panel manufacturer SolarCity, set off a wave of anxious speculation Monday when…
By Bedford Published: March 31, 2015 The Air Force is desperately trying to retire the A-10 jet aircraft, and lawmakers are desperately trying to push back. On Monday, Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters from Michigan sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense arguing not only that the A-10 should receive full funding,…
Paul Shepherd (R-ID) thinks the U.S. has the right to pass religiously motivated legislation. He’s wrong. He predominantly seems to think his personal religious beliefs justify a newly passed memorial in his state of Idaho that urges Congress to impeach any judge that rules in favor of equal rights for member of the LGBT community….
By Josh Fatzick A black state senator from Nebraska called police in America ‘his ISIS’ and said if he had a gun he would use it to shoot police. According to Watchdog Nebraska, during a legislative hearing on Friday, the long-time state senator, Ernie Chambers, said the ISIS mindset doesn’t just exist in the Middle East,…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 24, 2015 Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer repeated the claim that more than 7,000 Americans were killed by “climate change-fueled” natural disasters last year in an attempt to tie burning fossil fuels with extreme weather. The claim, however, is patently false, according to Politifact. It’s also a horribly misleading based…
By Michael Bastasch Next year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will start denying disaster funding to states that don’t incorporate global warming into their emergency preparedness plans. Governors looking for disaster preparedness funding will have to start reporting on how man-made global warming will impact their states such as “more intense storms, frequent heavy…
by: Lina Bryce Ricky Jackson, 58, was sentenced to death for a murder he didn’t commit and spent nearly four decades behind bars. Now he will receive more than $1 million from the state for wrongful imprisonment, ruled an Ohio court on Thursday. According to a release from the Associated Press, Jackson and two other men were…
By Jonah Bennett A platoon is receiving serious scrutiny from the Army for a tradition called “Racial Thursdays” in which soldiers regularly sling racial slurs against each other in a free-for-all environment. A black noncommissioned officer (NCO) has finally had enough and decided to inform the media of the practice. The NCO is convinced that…