A professor at a public university in Georgia had security escort a police officer from his enrolled class because he was carrying his holstered firearm. The incident took place at Darton State College in Albany, Georgia, on Wednesday, according to NBC affiliate WALB. The school has apologized to the officer and corrected the professor. “Darton State College…
By Jonah Bennett Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders shot down skepticism about his foreign policy expertise by boasting about speaking to many advisers on the subject, but one of his advisers just blew a hole in his answer by saying he has only met with Sanders once in recent months. Sanders said Sunday on…
Russ Read The San Jose Police Department (SJPD) is responding to as many as 20 Super Bowl threats a day in preparations for America’s premier sporting event Feb. 7. The SJPD’s command post is operational as of Sunday, with police monitoring essentially all Super Bowl-related issues, reports San Jose’s CBS affiliate KPIX. It is believed tens…
Michael Bastasch As Iowans prepare to vote for presidential candidates, a new poll has surfaced showing once again the vast majority of Americans don’t rank global warming as the most serious issue facing the country. A YouGov poll of 18,000 people in 17 countries found only 9.2 percent of Americans rank global warming as their biggest…
This south Florida woman may be a hero to those opposed to abuse of authority after she confronted a Florida police officer on video for speeding. The Washington Post reports: “The reason I pulled you over today, and I’m asking you to come over and have a conversation, is because I saw you since Miller…
Behold: a convoluted waste of time paid for, as always, by the taxpayers. A man charged with three marijuana crimes receives three different verdicts. Alan Witt, a 27-year-old dispensary worker from Gaylord, Michigan, was charged with delivery of marijuana, possession with intent to deliver marijuana, and maintaining or keeping a drug house. It took the jury less…
Blake Neff Oxford University administrators have defied a major protest wave and announced that they will be keeping a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes on campus. For the past several months, Oxford has seen repeated protests and demands from the “Rhodes Must Fall” movement, which wants the school to denounce Rhodes’ due to…
Richard Pollock Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were “unworkable,” according to a new report by…
The University of Oregon’s Campbell House is finding out just how well its anti-capitalist rhetoric pans out in reality. The hippies and artists who freely come and go, often without paying rent, have racked up a $17,000 debt. “If the clubbers can’t scrounge this amount together by March 20, the co-op will be shut down by the Student…
Blake Neff Students at a St. Paul, Minn., elementary school are poised to stop celebrating Christmas after their principal decided that it and other “dominant” holidays worked to “suppress” the views of others. “I have come to the difficult decision to discontinue the celebration of the dominant holidays until we can come to a better…