By Jonah Bennett The Navy is looking to copy Air Force and Army policy by making it much more difficult to discharge transgendered sailors. As soon as a servicemember is discovered to be transgendered, all it takes is the authority of a commanding officer to recommend discharge, but an anonymous Navy official stated that the authority will soon rest…
By: Laura Meyers There are two things that Santa Ana police officers hate: marijuana dispensaries and nubs. Footage from a recent marijuana dispensary raid shows officers eating pot candy, throwing darts, and joking about a woman’s amputated leg after they thought they had destroyed all the store’s cameras. The video shows an officer stuffing something into his mouth…
By Erica Wenig A horrifying video shows a Kazakh woman shrieking and resisting “bride kidnapping,” an ancient custom reportedly on the rise in Kazakhstan. The video was uploaded by Kazakh journalist Baurzhan Orda on Facebook Wednesday. It appears to have been filmed in a home, but it is unclear when or where in Kazakhstan it occurred. Orda received the video by…
By: Laura Meyers An 11-year-old boy was taken from his parents custody by the state of Florida after playing basketball outside the family’s home for an hour and a half by himself. The boy didn’t have a key, so he played basketball in the yard as he waited for his parents to get home. He was…
by Avens O’Brien So, what is slut-shaming? Slut-shaming is defined as “the act of making, or attempting to make, a person, especially a woman or girl, feel guilty or inferior for certain sexual behaviors, circumstances, or desires that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations, or that which may be considered to be contrary to…
Well, this is embarrassing. It looks like Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane NAACP and a self-declared black woman, is actually white. Her white parents from Montana have finally come out to set the record straight. “There seems to be some question of how Rachel is representing her identity and ethnicity,” her father said….
By: Laura Meyers The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington is under fire from accusations that she has lied about being black. “Our daughter is Caucasian” say parents of Spokane NAACP President Rachel Dolezal. pic.twitter.com/6VHxm9v4Wt — Taylor Viydo (@KREMTaylor) June 11, 2015 She’s also lied…
By Connor D. Wolf Raising the minimum wage will have severe consequences, especially for those working in the restaurant industry, investor rating service Moody’s warned on Thursday. “A higher minimum wage represents a particular challenge for restaurants, which depend heavily on hourly workers,” William Fahy, vice president and senior credit officer for Moody’s, said in a statement. “But…
By Jonah Bennett What’s happening to women in the military? New research indicates that females in the U.S. military have suicide rates six times higher than civilian women. In fact, although men usually have much higher rates than women, the female military suicide rate is so high that it’s approaching the male military rate, the LA…
Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast zeroes in on Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. During a speech at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the former Hewlett Packard CEO outlined her belief in free market solutions to problems women face in modern society. Fiorina’s vision includes bold solutions such as offering over the counter access to birth…