By: Laura Meyers In Indiana, a 19-year-old college student met a 17-year-old girl on a dating app. They got together. They hooked up. Turns out she’s actually 14. Now, he is serving 90 days in jail, sentenced to 25 years on the Sex Offender Registry, is forbidden from living in a household with internet access…
Environmentalists in Seattle recently mounted a protest against the Obama administration’s allowance of oil drilling in the arctic. As we reported, some 700 self-described “kayaktivists” hypocritically swarmed a Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig on petroleum-made kayaks. But the hypocrisy doesn’t end there. The environmentalists actually caused $10,000 worth of damage and pollution to dive park…
By Blake Neff The New York Times published an article Tuesday about the brave new world of people undergoing gender transitions at 18 years old or even younger. Given the topic matter, the article is full of lines that are a little uncomfortable, to say the least. Here are the top seven most cringe-worthy: 1. ”Kat was anxious…
By: Laura Meyers A new use for drone technology is being utilized on a Los Angeles beach to help survey for sharks roaming in shallow waters. This new tool makes its debut alongside the news of two teenage shark attack victims in North Carolina, with one victim saying “I didn’t see it coming. I was…
Celebrity entrepreneur Donald Trump announced his run for president yesterday, and the Freedom Report podcast is here to tell you exactly what we think. The Donald’s blustery rhetoric has some people on the right fired up, however. The New York Post’s editorial board wrote a glowing review of Trump’s populist message, praising him for his…
By Ethan Barton Democratic presidential hopeful and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley deleted virtually all of the messages from his primary, private email address, leaving constituent complaints and spam in an archive. O’Malley’s official Maryland state government email address was likely linked primarily to an online form for constituent comments, while his private account was…
By Blake Neff The University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) is halting the sale of soda and other sugary drinks on campus due to health concerns. Under the new policy, which was decided upon in May and will be implemented in July, campus vendors will be blocked from selling all drinks with added sugar calories to the school’s 4,600 students. That means no Coca-Cola, no Dr….
Cal Says “Micro-Aggressions” Like “Melting Pot” Could Offend by Josh Guckert The United States has always prided itself on being the place where millions of people from around the world travel unbelievable distances just to have a better chance at success for themselves and their families. However, the University of California has recently decided that…
Congress is currently working through the arduous process of passing a long-overdue reform to patent laws designed to curb the widely known and widely loathed practice known as patent trolling. Or, as those of us with libertarian friends call it, “the reason so many of our friends hate intellectual property.” Patent trolling, for those who…
By Michael Bastasch Bill Nye the “Science Guy” is once again trying to blame global warming for a series of weather events happening around the U.S., but this time meteorologists aren’t having it. Meteorologists criticized Nye’s claim that warm temperatures in Alaska and flooding in Texas are a product of man-made global warming. As Tropical Storm Bill…