Guy Bentley The drive to ban people under 18s from buying and using e-cigarettes could have the exact opposite effect that policy makers intended, a new study has revealed. Smoking rates among 12-17-year-olds actually rose in states that banned e-cigarette sales to minors, a study by Abigail Friedman of the Yale School of Public Health published…
I’m not a Vermonter. I wasn’t born there, I don’t live there, and I don’t know much about it except that Bernie Sanders is their Senator and they tried universal healthcare but it didn’t work out. What I do know is that one of their state representatives is hilariously wrong when it comes to Rand…
Casey Harper A Texas 7th grade girl says one of her teachers gave an assignment requiring students say God is a myth or receive a failing grade. Jordan Wooley, who attends West Memorial Junior High School in the Katy Independent School District, told her school board Tuesday night they were given an assignment asking them to identify whether…
Connor D. Wolf Rand Paul and Chris Christie staffers are throwing a fit because their accommodations for the Wednesday night Republican debate are cramped bathrooms while top candidates like Donald Trump enjoy lavish seating. Trump’s greenroom is a lounge area with leather chairs and a flat-screen T.V. Rubio’s team has what looks like a movie theater with leather, roomy chairs…
Blake Neff A professor at the University of St. Louis has discovered a new and rather novel kind of racism in the world: One-sided college football games, which he claims exploit “black bodies” for the sake of wealthy whites. The source of law professor Aaron Taylor’s ire is the so-called “guarantee game,” games where small-time…
Andrew Follett The amount of methane leaked from shale gas production has been massively overestimated according to a new study. The study was authored by University of California Professor of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory senior scientist Dr. Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller, a former policy adviser for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Michael Bastasch The global warming debate on Capitol Hill is heating up. Government scientists refused to comply with lawmakers’ demands they turn over internal documents regarding a study that eliminated the “hiatus” in global warming from the temperature record. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials argued such records are confidential and “essential to frank…
Josh Fatzick Police in Washington, D.C., are under investigation for use of force against a man Monday after a video surfaced apparently showing them beating him on the ground. Police believed the man to be on PCP as he fought with and tried to bite the officers. When police officers arrived on scene, they found…
Senator Lindsey Graham is running for president. You may not have known that because he is performing so dismally he will not even be featured in tonight’s Republican debate. However, CNN’s Dana Bash did sit down the outspoken southerner for an interview, during which she actually got Graham to play a cleaned up version of…
Your Liberty Is Up For Grabs Under Democracy by Joey Clark Is there nothing sacred? Well, under American Democracy, nothing seems to be sacred save the “will of the people.” Damn your liberty. Damn your ideals. Damn any robust discussion about the ideas governing the nation. Bless only your vote. Bless only the power of…