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Amber Randall A Georgia police sergeant was fired earlier this July for flying a Confederate flag over her house. The Confederate flag flew over former police sergeant Silvia Cotriss’s house for over a year, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She told the outlet that she had not received any complaints about the flag from her neighbors during that…
by Thomas Phippen New Jersey police shot a 76-year-old man armed with a shotgun through the back door of his home when they responded to the wrong address of a 911 call. Responding to the presumed location of a 911 call, two police arrived at Gerald Sykes’ home Friday night. After not receiving an answer at the front…
And How Far Would He Go? By Elias J. Atienza Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) hinted at a 2020 run during his speech at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. As one of the few libertarian Republicans in elected office, Amash is looking to continue the movement Ron Paul inspired. Amash is one of the few…
Elena Weissmann Wikileaks released nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers just days before the convention kicked off. The leaks, dating from January 2015 to May 2016, reveal Democratic staffers colluding with certain media outlets and discussing how to best undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders, among other embarrassing revelations. Despite the magnitude of the hack and its consequences for DNC…
Robert Donachie Hillary Clinton has taken in roughly seven times the amount of donations from hedge funds than Barack Obama did in ’08. In this election cycle, hedge funds have contributed $122.7 million to Hillary’s campaign. That number is more than twice that of the total contributions hedge funds made in 2012 and it comprises…
by Casey Harper More than a year after the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing riots, all six charged Baltimore police officers walked free and the attorney who prosecuted them faces a mountain of lawsuits, possible disbarment and calls for her resignation. While the lawsuits face a tough battle and the disbarment is unlikely, Baltimore State’s Attorney…
By Blake Neff PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Bernie Sanders may have thrown his support behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, but socialist die-hards aren’t ready to give up the ghost. Several people attending a “socialist convergence” in downtown Philadelphia Wednesday night declared Sanders a reviled traitor to the socialist cause, which would…
By Phillip Stucky Republican nominee Donald Trump is in hot water for his call for Russia to release Clinton’s deleted emails, but top Democratic donors announced two separate bounties for Trump’s tax forms. Democrats united against Trump during the third night of the DNC Wednesday. Each speaker mentioned Trump’s taxes, and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine…
By Kathryn Watson Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed publicly for the first time in a recent CBS News “60 Minutes” interview that using private email servers was “recommended” to her. The revelation — highlighted in a Judicial Watch lawsuit against the State Department — raises new unanswered questions about who…
By Jonathan Haggerty Donald Trump filed applications this month for temporary visas for 78 guest workers at his Mar-a-Lago resort and Trump National Golf Club in Florida. According to a Trump interview in September, finding Americans to fill jobs is a monumental task. He told MSNBC’s Morning Joe “getting help in Palm Beach during the…