By Casey Harper The official Twitter account for the state of Israel decided it would be fun to tweet a video of girls dancing around in their swimsuits. The @Israel twitter account shared the video Friday morning. Classical music plays in the background as people splash around, tossing buckets of water on each other and squirting…
By Josh Fatzick It could be a lot easier for residents in our nation’s capital to get stoned and then go pick up a prostitute if this city councilman in Washington, D.C., gets his way. The city legalized possession of marijuana in February, and now Councilman David Grosso wants to decriminalize prostitution. Grosso lauded a decision by Amnesty…
By Madalyn Harper It’s an all too common scene: a crazy off-campus party, gratuitous amounts of alcohol, and hormones spilling all over the place. College life was relatively the same for John Doe, as it was for any young Washington and Lee University-goer. He went to a party, met a pretty girl, and engaged in…
Paul Campaign Is Far From Over by Josh Guckert Following the debate last week, many journalists derided Rand Paul as having a bad performance. On top of the already-negative press that Paul had been receiving for weeks in advance of that first debate, Paul has been consistently attacked by mainstream media outlets as having peaked far too…
By Casey Harper A pair of humble Maryland dairy farmers are taking on the IRS, and now some members of Congress have joined the fight. Members of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee sent a letter Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew calling on the IRS to give back money the agency wrongly seized from two…
By: Laura Meyers A new study has claimed that men who harass women online and in male-dominated fields are literal losers. Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the University of New South Wales and Miami University “hypothesized that female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behavior from poor performing males who stand to lose…
By: Laura Meyers Ashton Kutcher called out New York City’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, on Facebook for his restrictive Uber bill that would prevent 10,000 job opportunities for New Yorkers, result in longer wait times, higher prices and less reliable service for Uber riders. RELATED: Uber Steps Up To Fight de Blasio Over Future Of…
By Jonah Bennett A new study indicates that Marine Corps officers’ intelligence has consistently declined over a 35-year period, and researchers are placing the blame on the “democratization of college,” that is, an ever-expanding pool of college graduates. Brookings Institution researchers Matthew F. Cancian and Michael W. Klein looked at General Classification Test (GCT) scores from 1980…
By: Laura Meyers A couple in Maryland Heights, Missouri complained to restaurant owners after receiving a receipt that had “Black Couple” written in the description at the top. The waitress has since been fired. The couple was also angry at the non-itemized $1.50 charge, which turned out to be for the double-shot of liquor they requested for…
By: Laura Meyers Two armed military veterans are guarding a military recruitment center in Monroe, North Carolina as a response to the recent shooting that killed five US servicemen at another recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Army Veteran John Autry and Air Force veteran Kevin Collins, both retired veterans, stood outside the recruitment center armed yesterday…