A University of North Carolina safety panel has recommended a number of security changes following recent protests against Silent Sam, a Confederate monument that has stood on the Chapel Hill campus since 1913 until it was toppled by protesters in August. One of those changes includes “substantially” upgrading its law enforcement capabilities. The law enforcement upgrade […]
A University of North Carolina safety panel has recommended a number of security changes following recent protests against Silent Sam, a Confederate monument that has stood on the Chapel Hill campus since 1913 until it was toppled by protesters in August. One of those changes includes “substantially” upgrading its law enforcement capabilities. The law enforcement upgrade […]
Mired in what can only be termed as an international scandal and a total PR disaster owing to its murder of a dissident journalist and attempt to cover it up with a flurry of lies, Saudi Arabia chose on Wednesday to focus its strategy on… Sean Penn? An unbylined piece that ran in state media […]
Mired in what can only be termed as an international scandal and a total PR disaster owing to its murder of a dissident journalist and attempt to cover it up with a flurry of lies, Saudi Arabia chose on Wednesday to focus its strategy on… Sean Penn? An unbylined piece that ran in state media […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) carved time out of a Fox Business interview on Thursday to randomly attack George Soros with anti-Semitic remarks. In a conversation with Fox’s Stuart Varney that had absolutely nothing to do with Soros, the Texas Republican took a passing mention of George Orwell as an opportunity to discuss the billionaire philanthropist and […]
British police have arrested three alleged neo-Nazis on suspicion of terror offenses. It is understood that the suspects are believed to be part of Sonnenkrieg Division, which has links to a violent U.S. neo-Nazi group responsible for the murder of five people. Police arrested a 17-year-old from London, an 18-year-old from Portsmouth and a 21-year-old […]
Terance Gamble’s lawyers appeared to walk into the Supreme Court Thursday morning with a single goal in mind — lock down Neil Gorsuch’s vote. They will probably succeed in that goal. Yet, in their single-minded pursuit of one of the Court’s most idiosyncratic members, Team Gamble is likely to see a Pyrrhic victory. As attorney […]
The Senate voted Thursday, in a party-line vote, to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), despite video evidence that the nominee strongly favors fossil fuels over renewable energy and rejects the overwhelming scientific evidence behind human-caused climate change. The nominee, Bernard McNamee, will be replacing former Commissioner Robert Powelson, […]
The devastating California Camp Fire has caused such widespread damage that it has put at least one insurance company out of business. The local Merced County Insurance Company — whose client base is overwhelmingly located in the wildfire-prone Sacramento Central Valley area — announced this week that it was closing shop because it can’t pay […]
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised “brilliant trade” policies that would drop the national trade deficit “like you’ve never seen before.” Two years after he was elected, despite his singular focus on trade, America is importing more goods, while exporting less, than it ever has. The federal government announced Thursday that America’s trade deficit hit […]
After apparently losing 40 or 41 seats in the 2018 midterm elections, the House Republicans’ campaign arm has selected Parker Poling to be its executive director for the 2020 campaign cycle. In addition to her work as chief of staff to Republican Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the woman who will […]
Republicans across the country are undermining voters, with lame duck legislatures aiming to strip power from incoming Democratic governors, threatening not to seat a state senator-elect in Pennsylvania, and refusing to implement a ballot initiative in Utah. On Wednesday, lawmakers in Wisconsin passed a bill that would give the legislature control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. […]
Republicans across the country are undermining voters, with lame duck legislatures aiming to strip power from incoming Democratic governors, threatening not to seat a state senator-elect in Pennsylvania, and refusing to implement a ballot initiative in Utah. On Wednesday, lawmakers in Wisconsin passed a bill that would give the legislature control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. […]
It’s a tough time for Fox News. Republicans just got routed by Democrats in last month’s midterms. President Donald Trump appears to be increasingly panicked about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election after recent developments regarding the president’s former colleagues. So in these trying times, the conservative network […]
The Trump administration has separated 81 children from their parents since June 20, when President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, a report by the Associated Press revealed this week. Immigration officials have continued the policy despite the order and a federal judge’s ruling. A recent investigation […]
The 2018 Miss Universe pageant is less than two weeks away, and The Blast reports that Spain’s contestant, Angela Ponce, is heavily favored to win. The projection has angered some conservatives who are upset Ponce is transgender. Ponce, who is making history as the first transgender woman ever to compete in the contest, has been open […]
Last Saturday, the San Francisco 49ers cut Reuben Foster after he was arrested for domestic violence for the second time in a calendar year. The Washington NFL team picked him up off of waivers just two days later. The following Friday, a video emerged of Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt shoving and kicking […]