60% of employers run credit checks on job applicants.
Open Season on the Gray Wolf
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Gray wolves have been delisted from the Endangered Species List as the result of corrupt lobbying. This is the first time an animal has been delisted as the result of non-scientific inquiry, by bureaucrats and politicians.
Why We Can’t Leave Afghanistan
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Osama bin Laden, the reason the Bush Administration went to war against Afghanistan in 2001, is dead. So why can’t we leave?
He Saved the Olympics
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Mitt Romney’s principal selling point as a Republican presidential candidate isn’t all that exciting.
Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places
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The assassination of Osama bin Laden has prompted calls to leave Afghanistan now that the hunt is over. But he was never there in the first place. We knew that–right?
(Mass Murderer and) Pervert
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Osama bin Laden was accused of murdering thousands of Americans, yet US forces who killed him found it necessary to smear him with revelations that he had a stash of pornography in his home.
Nothing New Here
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The managing director of the International Monetary Fund has been charged with rape. What’s new? The IMF has been raping Third Worlders for years.
Artful Lodger
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The narrative of Osama bin Laden kept changing, and so did the criticisms of American pundits determined to demonize the country’s most hated man.
