By Jonah Bennett The Air Force is giving land owners near Area 51 in Nevada an offer they can’t refuse: accept $5.2 million in exchange for the land, or the service will simply seize it. Area 51 has long been the site of legends regarding government contact with extraterrestrials and other covert experiment. Similarly, the…
By Casey Harper The Kentucky clerk who has been jailed for almost a week for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses is set to be released. U.S. District Judge David Bunning removed his contempt ruling Tuesday and told the clerk, Kim Davis, that she must not interfere with the issuing of gay marriage licenses, The…
By Ivan Plis The Vatican Tuesday announced changes to the Catholic Church’s rules for obtaining a marriage annulment, citing “concern for the salvation of souls.” The Church does not recognize divorce under any circumstances. But Catholics can obtain an annulment, a Church ruling that their marriage was not valid, after a church court considers traditional…
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky appeared on Fox News last week to declare his intention to support the eventual GOP nominee, even if that meant supporting Donald Trump. Saying he “won’t be enthusiastic,” Paul stated, “There will be people I will be very unhappy with. I think Donald Trump’s a disaster. I think he’ll hurt the…
By Guy Bentley Cannabis users were 45 percent less likely to contract bladder cancer than their more abstemeous peers, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – a branch of the National Institutes for Health. The NCI study examined 82,050 men of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds from 2002-2003 with the purpose of discovering any links…
By Lauren Southern Bloggers Brianna Wu and Ellen McGrody from the website The Mary Sue announced that Samus Aran is a transgender woman. They proclaimed this using “proof” from a statement made by Metroid background designer Hirofumi Matsuoka. When asked for secrets about the Super Metroid game in a 1994 interview, Matsuoka said – possibly in jest…
By the original rabble rouser, R. Brownell Time For Adult Talk “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” ~Dr. Ron Paul I’m a collective person, I don’t jump into things I feel will waste my time and efforts, because I like to think that when I commit to something, it better be damn well…
By: Laura Meyers If you aren’t the daddy, is it your baby? In March, a businessman in Britain sued his ex-wife, a similarly successful businesswoman, because she has fraudulently convinced him that his “son” was of his own DNA. Turns out, she had used a sperm donation from her former boyfriend to conceive the child during a…
By Casey Harper The Kentucky clerk who was jailed last week for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses has appealed for her release, her legal team said, even as she continues to defy the court order. Kim Davis’ lawyers filed an appeal Sunday. U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ruled Thursday that Davis was in contempt…
by Keith Farrell If you hit a pedestrian with your car, what would you reaction be? Most people would be horrified. In China, however, a common reaction is to throw the car in reverse and back over the person again to make sure they’re dead. Sound too horrific to be true? It’s not. In fact,…