Comedian and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane believes he has the solution to prevent more tragedies like the one in Orlando. He believes a ban on automatic weapons would save lives. There is only one problem with MacFarlane’s plea: there has been a ban on sales and transfers on automatic weapons in the United States…
By Michael Bastasch California congressmen wrote a letter to state attorney general Kamala Harris claiming the freedom of speech “is not designed to protect fraud and deceit” of the likes being spread by oil company ExxonMobil about global warming. Nineteen Democratic lawmakers told Harris her “investigation as to whether ExxonMobil lied about the truth of…
Donald Trump claims that free trade and immigration have lead to widespread job losses and economic turmoil for Americans. These are the signature policies of his campaign, but the evidence just doesn’t support this view. Americans rely on the benefits of trade everyday of their lives. The importation of low cost goods drastically increases…
Federal authorities in Detroit say that between the years of 2011 and 2014, a rogue group of Detroit police officers were not arresting certain drug dealers; instead they would rob the dealers of cash and drugs and then sell the drugs for even more cash, knowing the dealers couldn’t very well go to the police…
By Blake Neff The president of DePaul University announced Monday he is resigning from his post, after enduring weeks of attacks for how he handled a visit by conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos. Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, a Vincentian Catholic priest, says his decision to step down was made months ago, but it’s difficult to ignore the…
By Russ Read One of the first witnesses interviewed after the shooting in Orlando Sunday said he and another witness held closed a small exit door in an apparent attempt to prevent the shooter from following their group into an alleyway. Luis Burbano, an actor based in Orlando, explained the scene of the crime in…
By Blake Neff Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was a club regular who also used the gay dating app Jack’d, it emerged late Monday. Kevin West, another regular at Pulse, told the Los Angeles Times that Mateen frequently messaged him on Jack’d for about a year leading up to Sunday’s attack, in which the terrorist killed 49 people…
In the wake of the terrible tragedy in Orlando that rocked our nation this weekend, laymen and leaders alike spoke out on news and social media. For some, the massacre that claimed the lives of 50 people attending an LGBT event at the Pulse Nightclub was the perfect opportunity to push their own political agenda….
By Amber Randall A LGBTQ group dedicated to the legal and safe use of firearms for the LGBTQ community put out a press release Sunday that urged people to focus on the Orlando shooter’s heinous actions and not on guns as the problem. Oman Mir Seddique Mateen killed 49 people in a shooting at a gay…
By Saagar Enjeti Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen allegedly jumped for joy when the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, according to Mateen’s former high school classmates. Mateen, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, gunned down 50 people inside of a popular gay Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning. Robert Zirkle, Mateen’s classmate who rode the bus to school with…