Thinking about driving for a ride-sharing service? For most driver’s it’s an excellent idea but in some cities and states, you might run into some extra, unexpected regulations. These include fingerprinting, insurance, drug testing, and licensing. While most of those regulations are commonplace in similar industries, Uber and Lyft are fighting them on behalf of…
Scientists May Soon ‘Beam Up’ Animals Star Trek-Style By Andrew Follett Teleporting biological matter through a traveling wave pattern may soon be possible, according to research published Thursday by Israeli and American physicists. Researchers suspect they can adapt wave patterns to the size of the physical system in which they are embedded, allowing them to contain…
By Eric Lieberman Pharmaceutical companies are making billions off of opioids that are supposed to be “snort-proof.” These new drugs, called abuse-deterrent formulations (ADFs), are designed to be harder to crush and dissolve so that they cannot be injected or snorted as easily. The pills, naturally, can still be swallowed and thus abused. “If we’ve…
By Kody Fairfield “I’m an American. I’m for prosperity. I’ve discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.” – John Stossel Tonight at 10PM EST on Fox Business Network, the libertarian stalwart John Stossel will air his last episode of the show that bears his namesake, “Stossel.” Stossel and his show have been…
By: Elias J. Atienza U.S Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Al Franken (D-MN) support the recent decision by the Obama administration to halt recent arms sales to Saudi Arabia in a press release, following accusations of war crimes by the Saudi-lead coalition. However, the bipartisan group of Senators want…
by Kody Fairfield On Thursday, in an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Judge Andrew Napolitano laid question to a popular narrative being peddled by the mainstream media and the White House. The narrative alleges that Russia is to blame for the leaking of John Podesta’s emails to whistleblower publication Wikileaks. Instead, the Judge argued that US intelligence agents had…
by Josh Guckert On Thursday in Hershey, Pennsylvania, President-elect Donald Trump continued his “victory tour” around the country and made some interesting remarks. As reported by the Chicago Tribune: Thursday’s rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, found the president-elect calling for the mostly white crowd to cheer for African-Americans who were “smart” to heed his message and…
by Josh Guckert Late Thursday night, news broke that President Obama was vowing for the United States to take action against Russia for its alleged meddling in the American presidential election. As reported by CNN: “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we…
By Brett Chandrasekhar Over the past year, social media platforms have arguably censored libertarian and conservative opinions. Most notoriously, Facebook came under fire for allegedly suppressing conservative news. On several occasions, they banned (and after pushback, unbanned) popular libertarian pages as well. Now fake news is the latest threat to free speech on social media….
By Russ Read Future Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis removed former Army Lt. Gen. and future National Security Advisor Mike Flynn from his intelligence role in Afghanistan, according to Army documents obtained by the Washington Post. Mattis removed Flynn from his position in 2010 after Flynn was investigated by Central Command (CENTCOM) for sharing classified…