By R. Brownell Jumping in with other 2016 contenders who already commented on South Carolina’s decision to bring down the southern cross (the Confederacy’s former battle flag), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush threw in his two cents about the south’s old “Stars and Bars”: “The symbols were racist,” Bush reportedly said. “If you’re trying to…
By Blake Neff Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill giving the state one of the country’s strictest vaccination laws after a winter that saw a major measles outbreak among the unvaccinated. The new law eliminates the personal belief and religious exemptions the states once granted for school vaccine requirements, meaning only a certified medical issue…
By R. “baby you’re a firework!” Brownell Global celebrity and pop singer (beloved even by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) recently decided to purchase a former convent outside Los Angeles for $14.5 million. An issue occurred when the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary told Archbishop Jose Gomez that a local restaurant owner…
By Connor D. Wolf During the same interview with CBS on Sunday, Republican Gov. John Kasich used the Bible to defend Medicaid expansion while dismissing it in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. “As a big fan of that handbook, that the lord handed us, the old and new testament, there’s a…
By Blake Neff In an effort to ensure an “inclusive environment” on all its campuses, the University of California (UC) is adding new questions to its application process that asks applicants about their sexual orientation and gender identity. “Beginning this fall, the University of California will provide students with the option to voluntarily self-identify their sexual orientation…
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By: Laura Meyers Year-old footage has just been released showing a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter during the Battle for Mosul, Iraq, stepping on an ISIS IED and walking away from the blast like a freakin’ champ. Locals say Hajar, the survivor, survived his injuries and continued to fight after the explosion. Translation starting from 0:25: Cameraman: Hajar…
By: Laura Meyers Don’t you hate it when people call you out for being the racist pig that you really are? It’s so annoying. Anna Robb is a co-owner of a confederate flag-friendly store called Dixie Outfitters in Branson, Missouri with her husband, Nathan Robb. She says that flag “has nothing to do with slavery,”…
By Bedford The District of Columbia still won’t have to issue concealed-carry permits after a judge issued a stay pending appeal on a lower court’s ruling that a clause in the city’s gun law is unconstitutional. The stay comes after a federal judge ruled the D.C. law requiring citizens to show a “good reason” for…
By Casey Harper Hundreds of officers searching hundreds of miles for weeks to find two escaped murderers all came down to a one on one between the remaining prisoner David Sweat and one officer: New York State Police Sgt. Jay Cook. Cook, 47, is a marksman instructor, and that came in handy when he came across…
America’s 5th Generation, $1-Trillion, Cutting-Edge Fighter Is ‘About As Maneuverable As An F-16′ By Jonah Bennett The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which through its history has cost more than $1 trillion, just received a scathing review from one of its test pilots. Earlier this year, on January 14, the F-35A flew with the F-16D in mock battle to…