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Charlie McKenna | August 11, 2016
In what is perhaps the most overreported story of the summer, Snapchat has been taking heat for millennials’ favorite subject: racism.   Snapchat recently released a filter that fuming social justice warriors on Twitter were quick to deem “yellowface.” The filter contorted the faces of users to appear like they have squinty eyes and large teeth. Considering the company got blasted for "…
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Charlie McKenna | August 10, 2016
It looks like the entire legal profession is becoming a safe space. After months of controversy, the American Bar Association voted to add a certain anti-discrimination clause to the group’s ethics rules: “It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is discrimination…harassment includes sexual harassment and derogatory or…
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Charlie McKenna | August 9, 2016
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has always maintained a strong pro-life position. Recently however, his stance regarding Zika infected children has been garnering special attention. Rubio told Politico on Saturday: “A lot of people disagree with my view—but I believe that all human life is worthy of protection of our laws. And when you present it in the context of Zika or any prenatal condition, it’s a…
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Charlie McKenna | August 9, 2016
It looks like Germany’s immigration policies are starting to be addressed...kind of. So far in 2016 (despite what Angela Merkel’s open boarder rhetoric might indicate), Germany has denied access to 13,000 would-be migrants, according to a report by the Jerusalem Post. That’s 4,000 more immigration denials than were handed out during the entire year of 2015. This report comes at a time when…
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Charlie McKenna | August 8, 2016
Who says moms can’t go to the Olympics? Well, liberals. Kerri Walsh Jennings is an Olympian volleyball player and a mom of three. She's had a long history of Olympic success, most recently winning gold in the London Olympics while pregnant with her third child. She’s back for the Rio Olympics, and she’s ready to continue winning big as an athlete and a mother, crediting her family as her…
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Charlie McKenna | August 8, 2016
After 63 years of marriage, South Dakota couple Henry and Jeanette De Lange left this earth together, just 20 minutes apart. Henry was an 86-year-old Korean War veteran battling prostate cancer. Jeanette, 87, was the mother of their five children and a music teacher. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for several years. Jeanette spent her last few years at the Platte Care Center, where…
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Charlie McKenna | August 3, 2016
Scandal mongering is a way of life at the Huffington Post, but the most recent fake scandal is more fabricated than most. Caroline Bologna published a piece in HuffPo on Tuesday complaining of a “sexist” back-to-school ad run by GAP Kids. The problem was that the little boy model was labeled “the scholar,” while the little girl was called, “the social butterfly” in the same ad.   The image…
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Charlie McKenna | August 3, 2016
Nicholas Young, 36, a DC Metro police officer was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to support ISIS efforts overseas. Young had been known to the FBI since 2009 and had apparently expressed sympathies for Nazism and the Islamic State in the past. He traveled to Libya in 2011 to fight with the rebels against Muammar Gaddafi.   Young was attempting to help people he thought…
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Charlie McKenna | August 1, 2016
Bias in the media is nothing new, but MSNBC went above and beyond with their coverage of speeches by grieving parents at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Take Pat Smith, the mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, who gave a speech against Hillary at the RNC. The headline from MSNBC reads: “RNC Manipulates the Pain of Grieving Mother for Partisan Gain.” The article, by Rachel…
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Charlie McKenna | July 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s long-awaited speech on Wednesday accepting the Democratic nomination for president came at long last for the Clintons. But all that hard work seemed to get to Bill, who started to doze off during the hour-long speech. I guess after 40 years, even in the marital bliss that blesses the Clintons, anybody would begin to get bored.  Check it out for yourself: