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By Saagar Enjeti Secretary of State John Kerry claims President Barack Obama did not retreat from his chemical weapons red line, even as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad crossed it several times. Kerry’s contention, laid out in a Tuesday talk at the U.S. Institute of Peace in D.C., is that Obama did not retreat because he was…
By Luke Rosiak Federal grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) bankrolled studies to discover that fraternity brothers like to drink, that “Jaws” is a scary movie, that little girls like Barbie dolls and that most people generally fear pain at the dentist. These and other taxpayer-funded academic studies were highlighted Tuesday in…
By Thomas Phippen Fish companies are suing the Obama administration for new rules that require companies to track the origin of each fish imported into the U.S. The rules, finalized Dec. 9, 2016, are designed to combat seafood fraud and illegal fishing, but opponents say the rules will harm the seafood industry and punish innocent companies. National Fisheries…
By Juliegrace Brufke Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer trolled Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Monday by sending him a modified 2009 letter originally sent to then-Majority Leader Harry Reid about confirmation hearings. The letter in question called on Reid to conduct a full ethics review of then-President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet appointees before hearings take place. Our…
By Ethan Barton Officials with the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have yet to tell Congress they’ve punished a pair of scientists behind nearly two decades of data manipulation at a federal lab or what’s been done to prevent more of it, according to a key congressman investigating the scandal. “We haven’t…
By Kody Fairfield Students at the prestigious University of London have demanded that philosophers who have long been titans of thought should be removed from their curriculum simply because they are white. Immanuel Kant, Plato, Descartes, and Bertrand Russell, among others, though being cornerstones to the current thinking of civilization, are apparently too white for the student union representing…
By Richard Pollock FBI counter-terrorism officials warned in the summer of 2015 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doing official business on her home email system potentially compromised national security, according to new 300 pages of new evidence released late Sunday. The warnings came even as Clinton — by then heavily favored to win…
By Phillip Stucky President Barack Obama was just too nice to combat racism in America, according to Slate’s top reporter on race relations. Slate Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie asserts that Obama wasn’t as radical as his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Bouie asserts that the appropriate way for Obama to combat the nation’s racism was…
By Phillip Stucky President-elect Donald Trump plans to name Observer media owner Jared Kushner as his senior advisor in the White House, according to a Monday report from Politico co-founder Mike Allen. Allen asserted that Kushner is already in the process of naming “his own staff” in the new administration. Trump’s team of lawyers reportedly…
By Eric Lieberman A man who taunted police by posing as the famous character from “Where’s Waldo?” turned himself into police while live streaming on Facebook Monday. British authorities used helicopters and detection dogs to locate 30-year-old JJ McMenamin of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, but had no luck, according to The Telegraph. The fugitive seemed to enjoy his evasive activities,…