By Jonah Bennett The Obama administration is pushing for the United Nations to end a 2011 embargo on arms shipments to Libya in order to save the current regime from falling to the Islamic State, but some experts caution a U.S. arms shipment may end up in the hands of terror groups. In an effort to…
By JP Carroll President Barack Obama signed the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015 May 16 and not a whole lot of people took notice, with the exception of scared Colombian farmers. The new law makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite and prosecute just about anyone involved in the drug trade, which means coca…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration has taken $500 million appropriated by Congress to fight the Zika virus to fund the United Nations Green Climate Fund, which gives foreign countries money for green energy projects. “The threat to adults from Zika is relatively small, but the threat to pre-born children is very high,” Oklahoma Republican…
Michael Bastasch The world’s largest solar energy plant known for incinerating birds just got a taste of its own medicine. A fire at the plant Thursday morning, which may have been caused by “misaligned” mirrors used to reflect sunlight at boiler towers, broke out in the facilities interior — literally scorching parts of the plant. NRG…
Casey Harper After news broke that President Barack Obama would tell all public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, one Texas superintendent let him have it. Port Neches-Groves Superintendent Rodney Cavness told 12News that Obama’s letter, which was sent out Friday and informs schools they could lose funding and face lawsuits for refusal to…
The Obama DOJ is stepping into the middle of the fight over transgender accommodation. by Joey Clark The Obama administration has called on public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice based upon a student’s chosen gender identity. ABC News reports: As a condition of receiving federal funds, “a school…
By Russ Read The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, an email reveals. Deputy National Security Adviser for Communication Ben Rhodes appears to have outlined the administration’s strategy to handling the attacks…
Kathryn Watson President Barack Obama’s top transparency official in the “most transparent administration in history” is leaving after only nine months on the job. Office of Government Information Services Director James Holzer, appointed to the post in August 2015, is stepping down to go back to his old job with the Department of Homeland Security…
By Juliegrace Brufke An influx of employers are getting rid of health benefits by shrinking their full-time workforce and hiring freelancers in 2016 due to theincrease in costs caused by the Affordable Care Act according to a study released Tuesday. Nearly one-third of companies intend to work towards “eliminating” healthcare benefits because of the ACA, the…
The annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner went down this past Sunday in Washington D.C., and as is the custom, President Obama got on stage to tell some jokes. One of the jokes getting the most attention is his clever quip about marijuana: Obama on his approval ratings: “The last time I was this high, I…