By Casey Harper The South Carolina police officer caught on video fatally shooting Walter Scott as he ran away has been indicted. A grand jury has indicted former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in the April 4 shooting, CNN reports. There is not yet a trial date, and he faces 30 years to…
By: Laura Meyers A New York man is suing a psychic, Priscilla Delamro for larceny, because he says she scammed him out of more than $700,000 when he hired her to help spark a romantic relationship with a dead girl. The New York Times reports: In summer 2013, the man was melancholy. He had a good…
By Blake Neff An opinion piece written by a student at the University of California-Berkeley explaining her decision to leave Islam has been pulled from the school newspaper’s website over fears for the author’s safety. The opinion piece, titled “On Leaving Islam,” recounted the personal story of the narrator (whose name we will withold) growing up a devout (though…
By Casey Harper A Texas police officer has been put on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing the officer wrestle a 14-year-old girl to the ground before pulling his gun on two black young men. The incident occurred Friday when McKinney police responded to a disturbance at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool where…
By: Laura Meyers Ralph Nader (he’s still alive) recently called out Hillary Clinton for being a war hawk because she’s “compensating” for her gender by being overly “militarist” and “macho.” He also said that when she sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Clinton “never met a weapons system that she didn’t like.” “I think Hillary…
Youtube User Styropyro uploaded a video of a new laser shotgun that he created, and it’s unbelievable. The gun is made from 8 parallel 5W laser beams totaling to 40W. He calls it a “shotgun” for the fact that the parallel beams are manipulated with lenses, sort of how a choke will modify the spread of a…
In an interview with ESPN’s Colin Cowherd last week, comedian Jerry Seinfeld said he doesn’t perform at colleges any more because students are too politically correct. As an example, he told how his wife told their daughter, “In the next couple of years, I think maybe you’re going to want to hang around the city more on the…
Sanders’s Employment Investments Lack a Grasp of Economics by Josh Guckert On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Vermont Senator and 2016 Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders is sponsoring a bill, entitled the Employ Young Americans Now Act, which would invest $5.5 billion in the employment of 16-24 year-olds and job training grants. Regarding his rationale for this program,…
By Jonah Bennett New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pledged on Sunday that if he were elected president, he would end legal marijuana in Washington and Colorado. Christie’s candid views on marijuana legalization came out on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” show in response to a question from host John Dickerson. “If you were president would you…
By: Laura Meyers A man in Montana regretted calling authorities after saving a crying baby moose when he learned that the baby and its dead relatives were to be blown up by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) officials. Josh Hohm was camping at Gallatin National Forrest late last month when he found the…