Jonah Bennett In an op-ed for the military blog Task & Purpose, former Marine Lt. Col. Kate Germano blamed the problem of high female attrition in the service on recruiters bringing in weak women and refusing to provide real mentorship. Germano was responding to a recent Associated Press article that discussed the Marine Corps’ efforts to meet its…
by Robert Donachie Americans’ opinions on welfare have changed dramatically over the past two decades, according to a recent study by the American Enterprise Institute. Some 51 percent of Americans supported workfare — a welfare system that requires those receiving benefits to perform some work or to participate in job training — in 1985. But in 2016, that…
by Craig Boudreau A teenager was formally charged with multiple counts of driving under the influence, including driving his horse-drawn buggy while intoxicated. Robert Miller, 18, a Pennsylvania Amish teenager from the home of everyone’s favorite groundhog — Punxsutawney — was originally pulled over for the infraction July 8 in Canoe Township, and was officially charged Wednesday, The…
by Rachel Stoltzfoos Paul Manafort was reportedly subject to “the look” from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a few times prior to his resignation from the campaign Friday. “Manafort had been getting ‘the look’ from Trump, i.e. Trump wasn’t accepting his advice anymore,” reports Bloomberg reporter Kevin Cirilli, drawing on campaign sources. Trump hired Breitbart…
by Brian Nichols In another bizarre turn of events for this whirlwind of a 2016 Presidential Election, Paul Manafort has effectively resigned as the campaign manager for the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Manafort, who has been the target of controversy in recent weeks due a scathing New York Times article. The piece revealed hidden ledgers showing $12.7 million in…
by Jacob Nestle German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere just announced a potential ban on full-face veils. The announcement was made at a press conference. The Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, which rule by coalition, are in agreement on this issue. Maiziere said that “Full-face veils, as mentioned, we reject this. Not just the…
By Joe Trotter (Stonegait Institute) Cincinnati’s police union, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #69, is refusing to have members wear the city’s new body cameras unless they receive a pay increase. To clarify, this isn’t about just normal raises; the union is demanding a specific pay increase because of the cameras. “Requiring employees to…
The FDA Seizes Kratom – a Pain Reliever not on DEA Schedule by Aya Katz On August 4, 2016 U.S. Marshals acting under the direction of the FDA seized more than 100 cases of kratom belonging to Nature Therapeutics LLC in Grover Beach, California. The product was worth nearly $150,000. Kratom is not a controlled…
Behold the powerful potential libertarian influence found on social media By: Darrell England I’ve been running a new Facebook page called Liberty Thunder for the past several months. It already has over 3,600 “likes” and often it can have political news, graphics, or messages scheduled to post every hour for a good portion of any…
It’s almost as if there is some sort of ‘like’ threshold a liberty-minded page has to hit, before Facebook picks up the banhammer. RELATED: Facebook Censoring Libertarian Pages? Yesterday, Being Libertarian’s Facebook page was officially unpublished. The page was taken down days after Occupy Democrats Logic were silenced. But Being Libertarian was not unpublished because…