By Blake Neff The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may have to be wary. Badasses are gunning for them. Bearing signs with slogans such as “Schoolchildren’s Dreams, Not Billionaire’s Schemes,” a few hundred fed-up teachers demonstrated Thursday night outside the Gates Foundation’s Seattle headquarters, alleging that the foundation is vilifying teachers while paving the way…
Whoopi Goldberg made headlines yesterday when she told The View co-host Will Cain that his opinion was “spoken like a true white guy.” The controversial remarks were brought up in light of recent controversies surrounding the naming of the Washington Redskins and the politically correct police. Arguing against the PC police, Cain stated that if…
By Michael Bastasch President Obama is emphasizing global warming ahead of the November elections, but a new poll suggests he faces an uphill climb. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 35 percent of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to mankind is warming the Earth while another 18 percent says the world…
By Jonah Bennett The heightened controversy over the status of the US Export-Import Bank has been taken up by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday in an effort to come to terms on whether the bank’s charter will be renewed in September. The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), an 80-year-old federal agency, provides government-backed loans to…
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Another case of police corruption has rocked our nation’s capital. Linwood Barnhill Jr., 48, had been an officer for 24 years, working in Southeast’s 7th District station. He admitted in federal court last week that he forced teenage girls, some as young as 15, to work as prostitutes out of his apartment. Marc Washington,…
Taxi cab drivers in Washington D.C. are protesting against freedom by staging a major protest in the district. The streets of the capital are totally jammed with cabbies honking and creating a ruckus. Drivers are protesting against Uber and Lyft, which allow people to summon a car service on their mobile phones and pay with…
By Blake Neff Former presidential candidate and Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is telling parents to ditch Common Core, and try out his vision of homeschooling instead. In his essay written for Campaign for Liberty, Paul derides Common Core as a “curriculum developed by federal bureaucrats and education ‘experts.’” He complains that the new standards replace…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration’s foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline may be pleasing environmentalists but it’s damaging economic and political ties between the U.S. and its biggest trading partner: Canada. The Canadian government has been lobbying the Obama administration to approve the pipeline for years now, but the White House has been bowing…
By Greg Campbell Despite calls for boycotts from people upset about Colorado’s new laws on gun control and legal pot, the state broke almost every tourism record in 2013, with out-of-state visitors spending more than $4 billion for the first time. That’s a 12 percent increase over 2012, reported Visit Denver, the city’s tourism and convention bureau,…
COLUMBIANA, AL– 17-year-old Hali Wood willingly admits she was not wearing her seatbelt when she was given a $41 citation. But after being unable to pay for the ticket initially, her case was sent to JCS, a for-profit probation company that had nothing to do with her case. The company charged Wood with a $35…