By: Ryan Carrillo Feminism has scored another major victory for equality. Facebook recently made a subtle but undoubtedly important update to its friend request button. The icon which displays friend requests when received or accepted was changed so that the female icon now appears before the male. Lean in baby! “As a woman, educated at…
By Michael Bastasch Two recent reports warned that global warming threatens polar bear populations across the world, but the warnings in those reports obscure today’s reality about polar bears — they are doing just fine, according to experts. “They appear to be as abundant and as productive as ever, in most populations,” Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a polar…
by GRANT PHILLIPS Independence Day weekend turned into a bloodbath for Chicago residents. By the end of it, nine lay dead and over 40 wounded. One of the nine deaths was seven-year-old Amir Brown who was hit by a stray bullet while watching fireworks. There were no riots or protests. No one wants to ban…
By: Laura Meyers In my dreams, I live in a libertarian paradise with lots of guns, bourbon, and (young) Clint Eastwood-lookalikes. Turns out, I’m not the only one. American actor and producer Michael Douglas has recently said that the film industry is experiencing “a crisis in young American actors right now,” because men are becoming…
By: Laura Meyers Anytime a woman in the spotlight swims upstream, it’s cool. The current trend in Hollywood for women is to be a mindless soldier of the feminist movement, and to do whatever Tumblr says to. So, to those women who decided to think for themselves, here’s a little shout out. You go, girls. 1….
Rich people. We all want to be them. Author John Steinbeck once wrote that “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” And that’s true. The American Dream itself is rooted in the belief that you can change your situation if you strive,…
By Blake Neff Jeb Bush may have made his first notable gaffe of the 2016 presidential campaign, declaring in an interview that Americans need to “work longer hours” for substantial economic growth to return. The Republican presidential candidate was conducting a recorded interview with New Hampshire’s The Union-Leader and was answering a question about his tax plan,…
By Jonah Bennett District of Columbia council members voiced their support Wednesday for a new law that would allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. “These are residents who are well on their paths to citizenship,” Councilman David Grosso said. ”Unfortunately not all of our residents have a say in the politicians who are elected to represent…
By Michael Bastasch President Barack Obama’s push to unilaterally commit the United States to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in the coming years is about changing the constitutional system that similarly hampered former President Bill Clinton’s global warming goals, according to a law professor. In a congressional hearing Thursday, George Mason University law professor Jeremy…
By Casey Harper After a series of violent months and scathing police union accusations, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts. Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis will replace him as interim commissioner. Batts led the department during the incident with Freddie Gray and the following riots that have brought the entire department…