By Rachel Stoltzfoos Demonstrators waving Confederate flags greeted President Barack Obama in Oklahoma City Wednesday night, bringing an Obama supporter present to tears. Andrew Duncomb, a black man who calls himself “the Black Rebel,” organized the demonstration, in which as many as 10 people waved Confederate flags as Obama’s motorcade arrived, reported Politico. “We don’t believe it’s a symbol of racism,” Duncomb told…
By: Laura Meyers When an 18-year-old New Jersey girl attempted to sign up for the draft, she chose “female” as her gender, and was denied the ability to register. Now, she is filing a federal class action against the Supreme Court disputing that the current Selective Service Act violates the Constitution because it discriminate on the basis…
Two-Four-Six-Eight! Who Do We Annihilate? Dad! Dad! Gooooo Dad! SALISBURY, MD – Two fathers with daughters on a cheerleading squad escalated their war of words into a real-life fist fight, leaving one bloody and battered. The fathers were apparently arguing over the fact that one girl supposedly got the other girl kicked off the squad,…
By Michael Bastasch The U.S. has signed an agreement with four other countries bordering the Arctic to ban commercial fishing in the North Pole until more is known about the region’s natural resources and ecosystems. The Department of State says it’s taking a “precautionary approach to prevent unregulated fishing” in the North Pole. The government,…
By: Laura Meyers A detailed report on the horrors of lynching in the historic, slavery-bound South was released earlier this year by the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama. The report was titled Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, and it was a collection of data from five years of research and…
By: Laura Meyers A Michigan man woke up the other night around 2:30 a.m. to a knife-wielding intruder telling him “You’re going to smoke some weed with me right now.” True story. The man stalled the suspect, who eventually put the knife down. (I’m assuming so that he load the crack pipe. He sounds like…
This week, the American Conservative Union blasted out an email warning against the Innovation Act, a much-needed patent reform bill proposed by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Their reasoning wasn’t exactly subtle, as the email screamed: CHINA LOVES IT. INVENTORS FEAR IT. THE FOUNDERS WOULD HAVE HATED IT. Now, I can’t speak for China, and I…
By Connor D. Wolf In the name of fairness, congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would put significant restrictions on how employers schedule their employees. “This bill is about basic fairness,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement. “A single mom should know if her hours are being canceled before she arranges for daycare…
By: Laura Meyers Abuse of authority at its finest. The former CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., a red light camera company, recently pleaded guilty to a bribery charges with city government officials in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen Finley, the firm’s former chief executive, admitted that she was part of a scheme in which the camera…
By Guy Bentley The Greek debt crisis is rumbling on with another last-minute deal reached to save the Euro project, but those saying America could be heading the same way are leaving a lot out of the picture. Many commentators fear that the situation in Greece is a window into America’s future. Massive debt, a largely unreformed…