By Blake Neff An editor at the progressive website ThinkProgress justified the Baton Rouge shooting of cops Sunday, saying black people are simply “taking justice into their own hands,” because police aren’t being held accountable for “murdering black people.” Zack Ford works as ThinkProgress’ LGBT editor, but chose to wade into criminal justice Sunday very…
By JP Carroll “The Infiltrator” hit theaters July 13 and is the thriller of this summer, with Bryan Cranston leading the way in this 1980s, glamorous narco-adventure. Cranston, the former “Breaking Bad” star, plays Robert Mazur, a U.S. Customs agent based in Florida who goes after the money behind Medellin Cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar and his global cocaine empire….
By Craig Boudreau Gun control advocates recycle the same talking points when arguing why the federal government should curtail people’s Second Amendment rights. The anti-gun lobby deploys a range of straw-man arguments, like the Founding Fathers considered “arms” to mean single-loader muskets, and the “militia” to be the only legitimate custodnian of these arms. In more…
Playmate of the Year snaps photo of woman in LA Fitness showers and shares on Snapchat By: Resa Willis In a horrifying mean girl move, 2015 Playmate of the Year Dani Mathers posted a Snapchat photo of an unsuspecting woman, taken in the group showers at the Universal City LA Fitness facility. Mathers has a…
Paul also shook Gary Johnson’s hand By: Elias J. Atienza Last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was at FreedomFest, an annual gathering of conservatives, libertarians, and others in Las Vegas. Other speakers included Senators Ben Sasse (R-NB), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with libertarians like Gary Johnson and Matt Kibbe. Paul started…
Qandeel Baloch, Facebook and YouTube star who spoke out against women’s rights in the Muslim community, is dead. Authorities have confirmed that is was murder at her brother’s own hand, and the suspected motive is that the act was seen as an honor killing. According to MSN: “Baloch, believed to be in her twenties, had…
Saagar Enjeti Congress investigated in 2002 how the U.S. intelligence community failed to stop 9/11 and produced a comprehensive report, but classified 28 pages on the nature of the Saudi Arabian government’s involvement. Former Sen. Bob Graham pushed hard for the declassification of the pages so the American people could understand the role the Saudi government played…
Craig Boudreau New research published in the journal Science shows that human pollution known as aerosols actually have a role in the low number of tropical cyclones globally. Aerosols are airborne particles that hold a small amount of solid matter and can come from natural sources, like volcanoes, but they also come from human activity like…
By Micah J. Fleck Groups of Black Lives Matter protestors have been blocking passage of everyday drivers commuting in various cities across various states in an attempt to raise awareness of their cause, but the reaction to this particular tactic of getting people’s attention has been almost universally negative, with many drivers subjected to the…
Luke Rosiak And Kathryn Watson District of Columbia public and charter elementary schools have more students attending classes than the federal city’s entire population of such school-aged kids, indicating a fraud rate of at least 11 percent. Mathematically, that is the minimum portion of elementary schoolers who must be non-D.C. residents, but whose parents are freeloading off…