A British man was arrested Saturday at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas after attempting to assassinate the Republican presidential candidate. Michael Steven Sandford, 20, approached an armed officer during the Trump rally in Las Vegas. He attempted to grab the weapon from the officer, while pretending to want an autograph from Trump. Sanford was…
Dating can be great. But when it’s not, dating can suck. Just ask…anybody. There are always a bunch of single people who want not to be single people. Going through the motions, meeting people who seem interesting, only to slog through awkward conversation and unreturned phone calls. It’s enough to bring you down. But there’s…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The same media outlets who quickly identified the Planned Parenthood shooter as a right wing religious terrorist because his incoherent ramblings included the phrase “baby parts” are now struggling to figure out why a Muslim man shot up a gay nightclub, despite his explicit statement he did the deed “for ISIS.” Hours after news broke that…
Let’s get straight to the point of this – I don’t cry. Actually, that’s a rather sensationalist and, more importantly, rather untrue statement to make. I do cry, I’ve cried a handful of times in my life and I’m sure I’ll cry a handful more when the occasion calls for it. I cried when I…
“It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.” — George Orwell’s 1984 In George Orwell’s prescient novel about totalitarian government, 1984, the main protagonist is a censor working to rewrite history so…
In an unbelievable display of disregard for human rights, California Senator Dianne Feinstein doubled down on her policy of stripping rights away from Americans without due process. Feinstein’s bill, which both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have indicated support for, would strip 2nd Amendment rights away from any American on one of the government’s secret…
By Phillip Stucky Former Cruz Staffers led by Steve Lonegan, a former Cruz backer who recently started an anti-Trump PAC, spoke with hundreds of delegates Monday in a phone call to discuss how to promote the rule change that would unbind delegates on the convention floor in Cleveland. As many as 1,000 people were on the…
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has made headlines through his ardent support for gun control measures following the shooting that left 49 dead in an Orlando gay nightclub. The senator even held a 15-hour filibuster demanding lawmakers preemptively strip individual rights from those who are on secret terror watch lists. Related: Rand Paul v. Chris Murphy…
By Kevin Daley U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor submitted a racially-charged dissent in a Fourth Amendment case on Monday, which commentators hailed as a “Brown/Black Lives Matter manifesto.” The case, Utah v. Strieff, was occasioned when police stopped Salt Lake City man Edward Strieff on leaving a house suspected to quarter drug activity. The state…
By Jordan LaPorta On Friday night, 6 people were killed and 12 more were injured in various gun violence incidents across Chicago, Illinois, police have reported. The disparate incidents are part of a larger continuing trend of high gun violence in one of America’s most gun-controlled cities. USA Today reported in April that in 2016,…