Are we really 99 percent chimp? Science tells us there are similarities in our tangled genetic make-up, but there are plenty of mismatches, too. “We share 99 percent of our DNA with chimps if we ignore 19 percent of their genome and 25 percent of ours,” Emily Elert says. She sorts the numbers in this edition of Minute Earth.
Wild Bill’s new word of the day: Obamaism, which basically means opposition to anything and everything American. Especially Judeo-Christian values. Says Wild Bill, “The goal of Obamaism is to force churches and businesses to hire people of low moral character, to expose American children to perversions of all kinds, to allow civil and criminal prosecution of Americans who dare to uphold the biblical values that our nation was founded upon.” Time for the good guys to make a stand against this immoral wave.
Former head of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal calls herself a black female. Not so, according to her white parents, who say she was born caucasian and have the documents to prove it. So what’s going on here? Either Dolezal is a racial pioneer, a con artist or a complete wack job. “Run Down” host, John Phillips welcomes Stephen Kruiser and Scott Ott to discuss the mystery in this edition of PJTV.
We are pumping broadcasts into space as an ever-expanding sphere of radio waves, says Michael Stevens. “But here’s something humbling,” he says. “Even at the speed of light, Earth’s radio sphere is puny.”
So will our radio waves ever reach our neighbors in the universe and what will they hear–Hitler’s address from the 1936 Olympics, Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech or Neil Armstrong’s epithet from the moon? Stevens addresses the power of last words and first words in this edition of Vsauce.
Wild Bill says the best way to ruin a trip to the grocery store is to come across a slew of the Hollywood tabloids fawning over Tinseltown’s fake heroes. He explains in this edition of Wild Bill for Ameerica.
“Iraq has launched a military campaign to drive ISIS out of Ramadi,” Jodi Miller reports. “Meanwhile President Obama is devising a strategy to let them back in.” Miller also features the Department of Homeland Security, Martin O’Malley, the San Diego Union-Tribune, cooking chimpanzees, American obesity and Carl Jr.’s Thickburger in this edition of NewsBusted.
There’s a false narrative circulating that poverty and ignorance are the leading factors driving individuals to become violent Islamic extremists. Not true, says Haroon Ullah, senior State Department advisor and foreign policy professor at Georgetown University. Check out what Haroon discovered while living in Pakistan in this edition of PragerU.
We’ve been taught that dinosaurs went extinct 66 billion years ago when a mega-meteor plummeted into the Yucatan Peninsula. But Dr. Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay to be Smart, takes exception. “Thanks to science, we know that our planet is home to 10,000 or so species of living dinosaurs,” he says. “We call them birds.” In the following video clip, Hanson explains birds’ place on the tree of life.
You can always count on politicians on the stump taking credit for hundreds of thousands of jobs created across the nation. This especially true for our Teflon president, who usually takes credit for many things in government and the truth be damned. Fact is, says consumer advocate John Stossel, “I’m sick of these politicians talking about creating jobs. Government can create conditions that foster job growth, if government gets mostly out of the way. But it’s the private sector that actually creates real jobs.” Stossel is joined by the Independent Women’s Forum’s Hadley Heath Manning, Fox News political analyst Juan Williams and economist Stephen Moore to break down the dynamics of job creation on this edition of Liberty Pen.
