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Charlie McKenna | July 18, 2016
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton recently resurrected the 1964 “Confessions of a Republican” advertisement, in which a self-professed “lifelong Republican” tells how he simply can’t vote for Goldwater because he's too radical. In an updated version, Clinton has the same actor (allegedly portraying the average Republican) in an almost identical ad. The ad attempts to implicate …
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Charlie McKenna | July 14, 2016
NON Worldwide, a group of artists connected across the “black diaspora,” is advocating for a new kind of Black Friday. On Friday, July 15, participants will exclusively patronize black-owned business. The event's Facebook page states, “This is a call to purchase from nowhere else but Black Owned Businesses on this Day.” Why black business? Why even ask. The description goes on to say, “We…
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Charlie McKenna | July 14, 2016
Congressmen John Fleming (R-La.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) introduced a resolution on Wednesday demanding the impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The resolution is motivated by IRS cover-ups of discrimination against conservative groups. Some 422 backup tapes containing about 24,000 emails relevant to the targeting of conservatives were destroyed during Koskinen’s leadership,…
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Charlie McKenna | July 13, 2016
Zombies took over Brooklyn on Tuesday. Well, not exactly. One Brooklyn resident described the mass K2 overdose that sent 33 users to the hospital as “Zombieland.” Some of the synthetic marijuana users shuffled around the streets in a bumbling daze, while many others simply passed out on the ground in public. One man suffered from a seizure.   Throughout the morning, police and emergency…
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Charlie McKenna | July 13, 2016
General Motors is currently working to create a cyborg. Kind of. GM is working in conjunction with Swedish medical technology company Bioservo and NASA on a design for RoboGlove, a futuristic hand garment made to be worn as an assist to motor production workers.   Wired claims the glove works through “[p]ressure sensors and actuators [that] mimic nerves and muscles,” which makes the glove…
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Charlie McKenna | July 12, 2016
The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of moving forward Pennsylvania H.B. 1948 on Monday, which if passed into law would ban abortion after 20 weeks. The bill will head to the senate for a vote. H.B. 1948 would reduce the current window for abortion in Pennsylvania to 20 weeks, with exceptions made only for medical emergencies. It hopes to prevent brutal dismemberment of…
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Charlie McKenna | July 12, 2016
] A study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday shows a startling development in European attitudes towards Middle Eastern refugees. In eight of the ten countries surveyed, majorities of citizens polled believe incoming refugees increase the likelihood of terrorism at home. Respondents in Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Greece, and the United Kingdom all…
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Charlie McKenna | July 11, 2016
Relatives of five American victims of Palestinian attacks announced a lawsuit against Facebook on Monday. The families seek $1 billion in damages, claiming that Facebook was complicit in the attacks by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The plaintiffs include the family of 16-year-old Yaakov Naftali Fraenkel, who has abducted and murdered after hitching a ride in the West Bank, and the…
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Charlie McKenna | June 30, 2016
A Kean University student who issued fake threats against black students was sentence to 90-day jail sentence, five years probation, and an $82,000 fine after pleading guilty to causing a false public alarm. In April, Kayla-Simone McKelvey, a black student activist in New Jersey, pleaded guilty to causing a false public alarm after she sent out tweets targeting black students during a racial…
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Charlie McKenna | June 30, 2016
Chinese economist Andy Xie issued a provocative prediction in an interview with MarketWatch published on Thursday. Xie, a former economist for Morgan Stanley and the World Bank, is one of the foremost warning voices predicting a massive Chinese economic implosion. He explained that the Chinese market grew too quickly, and in order to prevent a crash, the Chinese government has been artificially…