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Blake Neff A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a federal law barring the registration of “offensive” trademarks is an unconstitutional limitation on free speech, a ruling that may pave the way for the Washington Redskins to be able to keep their trademark. The case before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles…
Just in time for a new Star Wars movie and Christmas comes this joyous holiday video, Darth Santa. Merry Christmas!
Jacob Bojesson GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview Sunday, saying it has never been proven Putin killed any journalists in Russia. True, but rarely has anyone else. Trump said he hasn’t “seen any evidence that [Putin] killed anybody in terms of reporters,” in an interview…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists are increasingly claiming that global warming is a “women’s issue” and that the world needs “eco-feminism” as a path forward. “We know that the world’s poor feel the effects of climate change most acutely, but it turns out there is an even more vulnerable subset to that population: women” reads the article…
JP Carroll Rapper Nicki Minaj performed Saturday in the African country of Angola at the invitation of a company which is partly owned by ruling dictator José Eduardo dos Santos’s family. Human rights activists are criticizing Minaj, 33, who was reportedly paid $2 million. The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) based in New York published an open…
JP Carroll In Spain’s general election Sunday, the Conservative People’s Party (PP) won enough seats to lead a coalition government. However, Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) will deny conservatives the right to form a government by voting against them. Since the death of Francisco Franco and the restoration of democracy in Spain in the 70s,…
Michael Bastasch Wyoming regulators have found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, did not likely contaminate water supplies in the town of Pavillion four years after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted its own botched investigation. State officials published findings Monday showing groundwater contamination near Pavillion was not likely caused by fracking, but instead by gas that naturally…
Juliegrace Brufke In the grand tradition of Festivus — everyone’s favorite “Seinfeld” holiday — 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul partook in the airing of grievances by releasing The Waste Report Monday, highlighting the year’s best examples of questionable federal spending. The Kentucky Republican listed 30 instances of taxpayer dollars being spent frivolously by dubious programs, similar…
Andrew Follett Donald Trump lost a legal battle over the weekend against a planned wind farm bordering a golf resort he owns in Scotland. All five Scottish Supreme Court judges ruled against Trump in a unanimous decision to allow construction of the wind farm to continue. Trump has already threatened to take his lawsuit to European courts. The Trump Organization will “continue to…
Andrew Follett Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a dam approximately 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a Sunday report by the Wall Street Journal. When the White House was alerted, officials wrongly believed a much larger facility in Oregon had been hacked. The Iranian hackers likely gained access to the New York dam through a cellular modem,…