Oliver Tickell, a British climate change activist and editor of the pro-environment publication The Ecologist, penned an op-ed Saturday suggesting that ISIS jihadis attacked Paris Friday night in order to derail climate change agreements during the G20 Summit this week, when world leaders, including President Obama, were slated to discuss efforts to curb global warming. According to Tickell,…
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On the heels of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds more wounded Friday night, President Obama doubled down on his promise to accept thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States during his remarks at the G20 Summit in Paris Monday morning.
In his speech, Obama said, “Many of these refugees are the victims of terrorism…
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If there's ever a ray of light peaking out from behind the dark cloud of hate and violence of a terrorist attack, it's the steady glow that comes from people around the world rallying behind the victims.
Immediately following the deadly attacks on Paris Friday night, in which at least…
Remember all those times the federal government told us we’re going to die of global warming?
It’s going to be the greatest catastrophe the world has ever seen. Fires raging across the open plains, tidal waves blasting through coastlines and submerging our skyscrapers, hurricanes whipping up our seas like one giant turbo-blender while we all cower in fear, naked and half-starved from the famine…
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It started with a trophy.
Hailed by little league coaches and soccer moms everywhere, we called it a “participation trophy.” It was designed to make sure every child who took a swing, risked a shot, and tried their very, very best – well, they got a pat on the back and a gold star and a cookie. And a participation trophy.
And thus the generation of “I…
In his remarks at Liberty University Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate and famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson took a lighthearted swipe at those who mock him for believing that God created the universe, claiming that to believe the earth evolved apart from divine intervention “requires a lot more faith than what I believe.”
Carson, an outspoken Seventh-Day Adventist, has come under…
It's only been a couple weeks since CNBC caught some serious flak over their (mis)handling of the last Republican presidential debate (where the moderators' liberal bias pretty much leaked all over the University of Colorado’s nice shiny floor).
So it's no surprise that mere moments into Tuesday's first GOP debate, many Americans took to Twitter to comment on the Fox Business moderators’…
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Sister Alicia Torres, a 30-year-old nun from Chicago, took home the first-place prize on the Food Network’s hit show “Chopped” in a special Thanksgiving episode that aired Monday night, out-cooking three other chefs to secure a $10,000 cash reward for Mission of Our Lady of the Angels. The charity provides homeless people in the Humboldt Park…
