By Peter Fricke Just one month after the Federal Communications Commission voted to take regulatory control over the Internet, the telecom industry filed the first legal challenges to the ruling. According to US News, “Two separate lawsuits, filed on Monday by USTelecom and Alamo Broadband, have challenged the net neutrality rules recently passed by the Federal Communications Commission, which aim…
Vancouver’s police force has been ordered to pay a transgender woman $15,000 for repeatedly referring to her as a man, and refusing to provide her post-op treatment while she was in jail. According to the The Toronto Sun news publication, A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal described how Angela Dawson had completed gender reassignment surgery in March 2010 before…
By Josh Fatzick A black state senator from Nebraska called police in America ‘his ISIS’ and said if he had a gun he would use it to shoot police. According to Watchdog Nebraska, during a legislative hearing on Friday, the long-time state senator, Ernie Chambers, said the ISIS mindset doesn’t just exist in the Middle East,…
Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5 The government of Texas is forcing a man to pay child support for a child that DNA evidence proves isn’t his. Willie Carson has been fighting in court for a decade to rescind his child support payments he’s been paying for over a decade. From MyFoxAtlanta:…
The Economics of the California Water Shortage by Alex Tabarrok Originally published at TheMarginalRevolution.com The NYTimes has an article on California’s extreme water drought with the usual apocalyptic imagery (see the video especially): California is facing a punishing fourth year of drought. Temperatures in Southern California soared to record-high levels over the weekend, approaching 100 degrees…
ANCHORAGE, AK – When Alaskan TV reporter Charlo Greene famously quit her job at KTVA last year while reporting a negatively-spun story on her own Alaskan Cannabis Club, a dispensary for user-generated pot that was aimed at pushing legislation toward legalizing the drug in the state, she became something of a hero to all of…
By Josh Fatzick The reality show host and real estate tycoon who repeatedly demanded President Barack Obama present proof that he was born in Hawaii turned his attention to presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday. In an effort to keep himself relevant for his never-ending possible presidential campaign, Trump brought the same accusations about presidential eligibility…
The National Union of Students (NUS) Women Students’ Conference is all over social media today but likely not for the reasons they’d hoped for. According the NUS Twitter account: Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping, as it’s triggering anxiety. Please be mindful! #nuswomen15 — NUS Women’s Campaign (@nuswomcam) March 24,…
SEATTLE, WA – Remember when last June the mayor of Seattle pushed through legislation that would, beginning on April Fool’s Day of this year (no kidding), force businesses to begin phasing in a $15 minimum wage for workers? Well, as if the initial backlash wasn’t enough (certain small business owners that would have otherwise been…
MADERA, CA – Five people have been arrested in Madera, California after they robbed a man of his credit card, using it later to buy tacos. Four were taken to jail while another younger girl was sent to a juvenile facility. All of the girls are from Fresno and are reportedly some “broke ass bitches,”…