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Juliegrace Brufke Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s political career has hit a new low — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders doesn’t even want his support. The 2016 presidential hopeful, who endorsed Emanuel’s opponent Jesus “Chuy” Garcia during a surprising close runoff race in April, had no qualms about coming out against the Chicago Democrat during a Q&A with…
Luke Rosiak Christmas came early this week for one of the naughtiest of former Department of Veterans Affairs employees, when VA’s official watchdog spared him the embarrassment of a damning official report about his illegal conduct from being made public. The nearly 300-page report describes how the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General’s former top…
Andrew Follett Despite President Barack Obama’s pocket veto Saturday of attempts to repeal the Clean Power Plan and recent increases in taxpayer support, solar and wind energy are in a tough spot, requiring an estimated $90 trillion of investment to meet carbon dioxide reduction goals. The fundamental issues of solar and wind power are numerous, so let’s review the top 11. 1:…
Casey Harper The “war on Christmas” has pretty much become a common American holiday tradition. In a politically correct, increasingly secularized America, the fight has engulfed nativity scenes and Starbucks Christmas cups and has even motivated thieves to steal Baby Jesuses. In the annual war, there are a few usual suspects: Nativity scenes, Christmas trees, etc. There’s…
Michael Bastasch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised former Republican President George W. Bush for kickstarting efforts to put together a global agreement to fight global warming. “That was the beginning of our success,” Ban told The Associated Press Saturday, referring to Bush’s attendance of U.N. global warming talks in 2007. After refusing to ratify…
Luke Rosiak After a federal employee assaulted a female colleague on the job, the American Federation of Government Employees took the side of the abuser — even though the woman was also a union member — and made bosses give a cash payout to the man. The union convinced an arbiter that management was in the wrong for trying to keep…
Blake Neff The Washington Post has published a lengthy year-end report on fatal police shootings in the U.S. that hints at possible police bias in the form of disproportionate killing of unarmed black men. Deceptive statistics that nakedly push a narrative substantially taint the report’s objectivity, and call into question its conclusions. Post staff decided to log every…
FDA Failed Gay Americans With Changes to Blood Donation Regulations BY SARAH GOMPPER The queer community has made incredible strides in the past few years. As the New Year approaches, LGBT Americans, single and legally married, are looking back on 2015 with #Pride. This week, exactly five years since Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was overturned,…
JP Carroll Africa’s ISIS branch, known as Boko Haram, has forced more than 2,000 schools to shut their doors and deprived 1 million kids of an education. Nigeria is the most affected by this crisis but so are Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. Boko Haram is infamous for having massacred a Nigeria village of 2,000 people in…
Juliegrace Brufke Senate Democrats introduced legislation Monday that would give Puerto Rico a temporary stay on litigation while Congress figures out a plan to address the island’s debt crisis. The island owes over $70 billion in public debt with a $950 million payment due Jan. 1, which Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla has said it may…