Mozilla CEO Steps Down over Support for Traditional Marriage

By Alec Torres April 3, 2014

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich stepped down today amid public outcry over his support for California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which created a constitutional amendment preserving the traditional definition of marriage. Thousands ...

Schumer Rails against McCutcheon Decision

By Alec Torres April 3, 2014

Senator Chuck Schumer is not happy with the Supreme Court’s decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which did away with aggregate limits on political contributions. In a press conference yesterday and ...

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IPCC Insider Rejects Global-Warming Report

By Alec Torres April 3, 2014

Richard Tol, a professor of economics at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and an expert on climate change, removed his name from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on ...

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Oklahoma Moves to Dump Common Core

By Alec Torres April 2, 2014

The Oklahoma state senate passed a bill Tuesday to withdraw the state from the Common Core standards. If the bill is signed by Governor Mary Fallin, Oklahoma will become the ...

War Vets Prefer Bush to Obama

By Alec Torres April 2, 2014

A new poll finds that 65 percent of post-9/11 veterans consider George W. Bush a good commander-in-chief, but only 42 percent think the same of Obama. The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation ...

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The Kiselev Follies: Six Wild Comments From Russia’s Leading Blowhard

By Alec Torres April 2, 2014

Dmitry Kiselev is a Russian media personality and the star of the Russian state television company RT. Russian president Vladimir Putin appointed Kiselev head of RT in December 2013. RT ...

Video: Female Conservative Reporter Unwelcome at Feminist Conference

By Alec Torres April 2, 2014

When a young woman reporter from the conservative education news site Campus Reform went to a feminist conference, she was told she was not welcome there. http://www.youtube.com/embed/MEYDUnwmG4U Katherine Timpf attended the National Young ...

Mozilla Employees Call for CEO to be Fired for Donating to Prop 8 Campaign

By Alec Torres April 1, 2014

As Maggie Gallagher noted on the Corner, thousands have signed a petition calling for new Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich to either openly endorse gay marriage or be fired. Six years ago, ...

Covered California Sends Deaf Callers to ‘Hot Ladies’ Hotline

By Alec Torres April 1, 2014

Covered California, the Golden State’s Obamacare exchange, posted an incorrect phone number on it website, sending hearing-impaired residents to a chat service with “hot ladies” instead of to insurance navigators. CBS13 ...

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How Climate Change Influenced the End of the Late Bronze Age

By Alec Torres March 31, 2014

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued its latest warning. The ice caps are melting, water supplies are declining, heat waves and heavy rains are increasing in frequency, ...