The Green Party request to recount paper ballots from the presidential election in Pennsylvania and inspect electronic systems for signs of hacking has been denied by a federal judge.  Read Full Article

Looks like the DNC took to photoshopping a picture of Dr. Ben Carson.  I guess this is how they support African-Americans these days in the Democratic Party.  In my post called “The Good Doctor” I discussed the hatchet job done by the DNC. In it I commented that they’d used an ugly photo of Dr.

Even as the majority of Americans applaud the quality, cost and coverage of their healthcare, four in 10 adults — a conspicuous minority in the era of the Affordable Care Act — are dissatisfied with their healthcare costs. Americans who are covered by Medicare or Medicaid are the least dissatisfied (29%), while dissatisfaction is highest among

In other words: during Obama’s reign.  Americans’ confidence in the economy remains higher than at any point since January 2008, with Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index averaging +8 for the week ending Dec. 11. This score is unchanged from the prior week, which marked a record high in the nine-year trend. The index’s positive scores in

U.S. intelligence agencies (not to mention Congress) have little to no credibility with public. They should heed Justin Amash’s call for transparency. “Neither story actually presents even anonymously sourced information that shows Russian (or even Wikileaks) activity tipped the election.” Via Reason  The Washington Post and The New York Times have released explosive reports suggesting

President-Elect Donald Trump announced this morning on Twitter that he intended to nominate Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson for the position of secretary of state, calling him “one of the truly great business leaders of the world.” Tillerson has been the CEO of Exxon-Mobil since 2006, and has been with Exxon-Mobil for 41 years, joining as a production

Sen. Bernie Sanders understands something that mainstream liberals do not: Donald Trump won the presidency in part because he channeled populist resentment toward political correctness into a winning issue. During a fascinating and free-wheeling town hall-style event on Chris Hayes’ show on MSNBC Monday night, Sanders was explicit: Trump’s criticisms of political correctness spoke to the American

According to new data from the Brewers Association, the number of breweries in the United States reached an all-time record high of 5,005 as of the end of November. Almost all (99%) of those 5,005 breweries are small and independent craft beer makers, and the Brewers Association projects continued 8% growth for these small breweries, which are the “bright spot

The ‘family friendly’ movie-editing company is charged with running an unlicensed video-on-demand service. Too bad, for those families who want to watch for the content and not the smut.  The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Bros, Disney and Fox have won an injunction against “family values” streaming service VidAngel. In the aftermath, VidAngel has announced

Finally, a job for those college graduate gamers living in their parents’ basements?  Urban areas continue to vex the US military as tall buildings and narrow streets keep impeding troop communications and tactics. While ground soldiers have used single drones for years, DARPA believes that a whole swarm could mitigate those disadvantages, giving units more

Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador met with President-elect Donald Trump in New York Monday, saying they had an “excellent conversation about issues critical to Idaho and the West.” There was no word, though, on whether the 49-year-old Republican was interviewing for a position with the Trump administration. Labrador was re-elected to a fourth term in Congress

New Jersey plans to sell transportation bonds to the state’s pension fund. Now, New Jersey is lending money to itself. After struggling to raise debt from third parties to repair crumbling infrastructure, the state of New Jersey has come up with a “clever” approach to fundraising that entails selling debt to their own insolvent pension

Gary Cohn accepts the position of director of Trump’s Economic Council. From CNBC: Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn is expected to accept the directorship of the National Economic Council “at any moment,” a source told CNBC on Monday. President-elect Donald Trump last week offered the key economic advisor position to Cohn, Goldman’s 56-year-old president and

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that they have not accepted the Washington Post’s reported CIA claim that Russia cyber attacks were aimed at impacting the US election. The ODNI says they do not accept the report because of a lack of conclusive evidence. The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have

Republican Donald Trump’s victory in Wisconsin has been reaffirmed following a presidential recount that showed him defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes. Trump picked up a net 162 votes as a result of the recount that the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified Monday. Green Party candidate Jill Stein requested and paid for the

After hitting the road to campaign for Donald Trump in three states in October, Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador traveled to New York City on Monday to meet with the president-elect at Trump Tower. While Trump’s transition team provided few details about the private meeting, Labrador hinted that they discussed a role for him in Trump’s administration.

The staff at a VA hospital left the body of a dead vet in the shower room for 9 hours. The body likely began to decompose in this time. The staff members who did this then lied about it on official reports. Those staff members were not fired and will go through retraining.  An internal

A Massachusetts gun buyback program bought 38 replica guns. Authorities in central Massachusetts collected a total of 260 firearms, including 38 replicas, during the “Goods for Guns” gun buyback over the weekend. The buyback served 17 communities and was the biggest yet, according to Dr. Michael P. Hirsh, medical director of the City of Worcester