By: Laura Meyers Hillary Clinton is the kind of person that walks into a bar, asks for the gluten-free menu and orders sparkling water in a chilled glass with thirteen pieces of crushed ice. Here are 5 of the diva’s most demanding moments: 1. University speaking fees Mrs. Clinton’s speaking contracts have been under harsh scrutiny recently……
By: Laura Meyers Mike Rowe made a Facebook post about his encounter with the youngest, savviest, cutest, most debonaire entrepreneur ever. It was a negotiation from the start. Alexander wanted to sell me a cup of fresh-squeezed lemonade for $1. I wanted to pay 50 cents. So we haggled. I argued the key ingredient – water…
A heated debate on Fox Business with Stuart Varney saw him kicking anti-fracking activist Josh Fox off the set after he accused the host of lying. Fox was the director of “Gasland,” the popular documentary which attempted to prove that fracking causes the contamination of drinking water. The debate grew tense when Fox brought up the fact…
By: Laura Meyers A man in Montana regretted calling authorities after saving a crying baby moose when he learned that the baby and its dead relatives were to be blown up by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) officials. Josh Hohm was camping at Gallatin National Forrest late last month when he found the…
By Casey Bennett Let’s start by making something crystal clear: this is not an apology. Last week, I authored a controversial piece criticizing society’s double standard regarding what is and is not considered acceptable to flaunt across the covers of magazines. Using newly minted plus-sized model Tess Holliday as the basis for my argument, I noted that in…
By Michael Bastasch Scientists may have lied about the EPA’s involvement in a recent study put out earlier this year claiming Obama administration regulations on carbon dioxide emissions will save thousands of lives every year. Emails obtained by the blog JunkScience.com’s Steve Milloy show Harvard University and Syracuse University researchers involved in the study consulted with the EPA…
By Casey Harper America will never be the same. The Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to recommend approval for a drug that would increase a woman’s sex drive, The New York Times reports. The drug, Flibanserin, is a pink pill meant to be taken daily. It had been denied two times by the FDA, but the third time was…
By Blake Neff A member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan commission that investigates civil rights issues, sent a letter laced with references to the movie “Airplane!” to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), warning its practice of putting diversity first could get people killed. “[I] write as a concerned frequent flier who has no…
By Michael Bastasch Americans are just going to have to trust the EPA’s 44 years of experience dealing with environmental issues when it comes to figuring out ways to cope with man-made global warming, says the agency’s chief. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Big Think in an interview that while there are limits to how much the…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Two vets who served on the battlefields of France in World War I were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House Tuesday. Henry Johnson was part of the all-black “Harlem Hellfighters” regiment. He almost singlehandedly fended off at least a dozen Germans in the trenches, armed…