By Jonah Bennett Officials at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Colorado want the Confederate battle flag completely removed from a mural. The Grand Junction medical facility features a mural of the Civil War painted by 72-year-old artist Lee Bowerman and shows a Confederate and Union soldier staring each other down. Bowerman thinks…
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Why This Trotskyite Deserves The Icepick Bernie Sanders supporters flooded The Libertarian Republic news magazine’s website and social media sites over the weekend. A strong pushback from editor Austin Petersen against the socialist spawn of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign uncovered a slough of economically illiterate American activists, ready to do battle for evil. And…
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By Jonah Bennett A new recruitment video released by the sorority Alpha Phi at the University of Alabama has gone viral, attracting negative attention for being “racially homogeneous” and “hyper-feminine.” While on first glance, the video appears to be a light-hearted way to attract new members to the sorority, A.L. Bailey, an opinion writer at…
By Casey Harper A Nevada girl who says her high school forbid her from starting a pro-life club is fighting back. Angelique Clark says she wanted to start a pro-life group on her school’s campus but was denied by the administration because abortion was controversial, would make people feel left out, and that others were “more qualified”…
Liveleak uploaded a video yesterday showing a group of black women violently attacking an Asian ice cream man. The video has gone viral, with police seeking the help of activists to locate the women in the video.
By Connor D. Wolf In the past year the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour has seen success in a few major cities – and now several more are looking to be next. Seattle led the way in implementing a $15 minimum wage back in June 2014. San Francisco and Los…
Putting an end to months of speculation, former congressman Ron Paul proudly and enthusiastically endorsed his son Senator Rand Paul for President of the United States in 2016. Paul’s endorsement will do two things, it stops the rumors that the elder Paul didn’t agree with his son on enough issues for him to publicly endorse…
By Blake Neff An appeals court in Oregon issued a ruling Wednesday declaring that having sex with one’s co-workers cannot be considered a job-related duty. The case goes all the way back to 2006, when Eastern Oregon University (EOU) administrator Robert Davis had sex with co-worker Marla Johnson while the two were attending a conference in Atlanta. Johnson…
DC’s Police Chief Accidentally Details What’s Wrong With Gun Laws By Josh Fatzick The chief of police in Washington, D.C., described all the issues created by the implementation of restrictive gun laws at a press conference about crime in the city Thursday. The city is in the midst of a spike in murders that has…
By Guy Bentley Nicotine is no more dangerous to health than coffee, but 90 percent of the public still consider it harmful, according to a report from the U.K.’s Royal Society for Public Health. The study heaps praise on e-cigarettes with the chief executive of the RSPH, Shirley Cramer commenting “getting people on to nicotine rather than…