By Casey Harper Published: January 9, 2015 Irvington Police Capt. Monique Smith allegedly chased down Newark City Councilman John Sharpe James on Monday, repeatedly ramming his car after a verbal dispute, WABC New York reports. Police say Smith, who had been promoted to police captain earlier that day, was yelling at James around 11 p.m. When…
By Ivan Plis Published: January 8, 2015 Saudi Arabia will begin punishing Raif Badawi Friday, a blogger and activist convicted of “insulting Islam.” His punishment includes 1,000 lashes, 10 years in prison and a million-riyal fine, equivalent to over $250,000. The punishment will begin just two days after 12 people were murdered in an Islamic…
Yesterday, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity posted a story where Paul attempted to paint the murders of French cartoonists as a form of blowback for French interventionism. As a friend of mine said, If Dr. Paul thinks that French foreign policy is too aggressive, then it’s clear that no level of passivity would meet his…
By Michael Bastasch House Speaker John Boehner said he would not support plans to raise the national tax on gasoline, saying lawmakers would have to “work our way through” funding the country’s highways. “I’ve never voted to raise the gas tax,” said Boehner, an Ohio Republican, adding that he doubted there would be enough votes to raise gas taxes. Boehner’s remarks…
By Ivan Plis Wednesday’s Islamic terror attack at the office of a French satirical magazine that left 12 dead wasn’t even the biggest terror attack of the day: Terrorists detonating a car bomb at a police academy in Yemen killed as many as 40, with over 60 wounded. “We found the top part of one…
Famed libertarian investor Peter Thiel has announced his plans to invest in dat chronic, specifically the new Bob Marley brand of marijuana that’s set to hit global markets. Thiel’s Founders Fund, a $2 billion venture capital firm, will participate in a multi million dollar fundraising effort by Privateer Holdings, the owner of the Bob Marley…
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Editor Austin Petersen returns from exile after a three day Facebook ban silenced his ability to communicate with his followers. While people were dying in France because over free speech, Petersen sat silently watching, waiting for the three day ban to be lifted so he could speak out against Islamic extremism. Are there more things…
By Blake Neff Published: January 7, 2015 A pair of bills filed in each house of South Carolina’s legislature aim to eliminate the zero-tolerance attitude towards guns in schools by allowing or even mandating gun safety and Second Amendment-related curricula. State Rep. Alan Clemmons, who introduced the House bill, says he was inspired to act…
It took a small army of police officers to shut down a party in California where hundreds of drunk teenagers dressed in lingerie and wearing bunny ears were partying like it was the Playboy mansion. San Diego County sheriff’s deputies responded to complaints from neighbors that the 18th birthday party of Olivia Lake had gotten…
By Casey Harper One North Carolina city has finally surrendered in a long-fought battle to preserve a veteran’s memorial with a praying soldier and Christian flag. The city, after spending $50,000 in legal fees, and with little hope of winning a court battle estimated to cost $2 million, ceded to the U.S. army veteran suing…