Michael Bastasch The victory of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau in Canada’s election Monday sparked a firestorm of speculation over the fate of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The answer is that Trudeau, no matter how much he cares about global warming, will continue to push for Keystone XL’s approval. This is because Canada can’t…
Steve Ambrose The line in the sand has been drawn and everyone is now picking sides. While the Senate began debate Oct. 20 on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), influential technology companies have staked out their opposition to the plan before the bill has been finalized.(RELATED: Hillary Ignored Mandatory Cyber-Security Training At State Department.)…
Richard Pollock Two NASA supervisors were criminally indicted Tuesday under U.S. espionage laws for “willfully violating” national security regulations while allowing a visiting Chinese foreign national to gain “complete and unrestricted access” to the space agency’s Langley Research Center, according to the U.S. Attorneys office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictments of NASA Langley…
Unless you’ve been living under a particularly large rock for the last 7 or 8 years, you’ve probably heard of a Canadian popstar named Justin Bieber. And, unless you’ve been living under an even bigger rock, you’ll know that nude pictures of him were recently leaked online. The interesting thing to take note of is the…
Black Lives Matter Has Seen Far-Reaching Impact by Elias Atienza Recently, Black Lives Matter has made headlines with protests at UCLA following a sorority’s Kanye West-themed party and an opinion piece at Wesleyan University for the newspaper Argus with a mildly critical tone of the movement. As such, the sorority at UCLA is under fire…
Josh Fatzick Retailers in one of Washington, D.C.’s most popular upscale shopping destinations are ditching an app used to fight shop lifting after calls of racism. Retail workers at the strip of stores along Georgetown’s waterfront use the app called GroupMe to report suspicious behavior directly to police officers in the area, but were forced to…
Charles Seaburger from Bankable Insight writes: 1. Artificial wage floors hurt the unemployed In a free market the government doesn’t tell someone they cannot legally accept a job for whatever wage they choose. If someone wants to stuff envelopes in their home, they should be able to. What does it matter if it is for less…
A shooting has transpired at the O.K. Corral. Seriously. A stunt show gone wrong at one of the most iconic Wild West locations, known best for the shootout depicted in the film Tombstone. This was part of an event called Helldorado Days. KVOA in Tuscon reports: TOMBSTONE- A reenactment actor is being treated at a Tucson…
By R. Brownell The war on cash has reached a new level in the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal: State Street Corp., the Boston bank that manages assets for institutional investors, for the first time has begun charging some customers for large dollar deposits, people familiar with the matter said. J.P. Morgan…
By R. Brownell Tickets for the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens will go on sale October 19th, several months before the film’s December release date in the United States. According to Bloomberg Business: “The Force Awakens” is the first in the series since Disney acquired franchise-owner Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4 billion in 2012….