First lady Michelle Obama said something Wednesday that seems preposterously ironic to many American school kids: “No one really cares what you had for lunch.” “I tease my kids,” Michelle Obama said at a White House event on women’s empowerment with Laura Bush. “I tell them I want them to use Instagram to take a […]
IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and […]
@PhilipWegmann Philip Wegmann is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Source material can be found at this site.
A day after President Obama declared the siege of Mount Sinjar broken and the crisis effectively over, Yezidi leaders say more than 100 of their men were executed Friday afternoon in the village of Kocho, located southeast of Sinjar in northern Iraq. Fighters from the Islamic State took the remaining villagers — women and children […]
The House Benghazi Select Committee started its investigative work this month. No fireworks yet, and that bothers the critics of the committee, who continue to contend that it is all a big waste of money. It is not. Understanding the massive policy failure that led to Benghazi is important, and furthermore, the Committee’s budget is […]
@PhilipWegmann Philip Wegmann is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Source material can be found at this site.
Last week a judge in Tennessee upheld that state’s Constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Though the decision was made a week ago, it has only now been made available electronically. The case involved a same-sex couple married in Iowa that sought a divorce in Tennessee. Because […]
Kelsey Harkness is a news producer at The Daily Signal. Source material can be found at this site.
According to news reports Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered Iraqi military forces to seize government buildings. The move comes in the wake of an ongoing dispute over forming a new government. After an Islamist insurgency over ran large swarths of Iraq, there was an effort to replace Maliki with a “unity” government that would […]
@Watchdogorg Daniel Mael is a reporter for Watchdog.org, a national network of investigative reporters covering waste, fraud and abuse in government. Watchdog.org is a project of the nonprofit Franklin Center for Government Public Integrity. Source material can be found at this site.
