by Phillip Stucky A Georgia woman found herself fighting for her life as three armed burglars stormed her Gwinnett County, Ga., home late Thursday. “She exercised her right to defend her livelihood and property,” Gwinnett County Police Department Cpl. Deon Washington told Atlanta’s WSB 2. Unprecedented surveillance footage from inside the home shows three armed attackers…
Why Generation X is Way Cooler Than Millennials by Dallas Brooks Generation X rules. Millennials drool. Tweet it, post it, Snapchat it, or throw it on whatever the latest app is. Anyway you cut it, those of us born between 1961 and 1981 (GenX) are the cool kids wearing leather jackets, sitting on our V-twin…
by Kitty Testa The United States takes in more immigrants than any other nation on earth. The U.S. is only about 4% of the world’s population, but we take in 20% of the world’s immigrant population. There are about 42.4 million immigrants in the United States, about 13% of the population. Whether you think that’s…
by Andrew Follett Scientists at Australia’s main medical research agency say that fluoride in drinking water is safe after analyzing 60 years of research and 3,000 scientific studies. Researchers found that fluoride in water has no adverse health effects at the levels used in Australia, and that the substance is not linked to low IQ, cancer, or cognitive problems. The only result was reduction of the…
by Brian Nichols The riots that began in Charlotte, NC on Tuesday evening after the controversial police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott have taken a turn for the worst, as they have become increasingly violent and destructive. Since Tuesday, the riots that have erupted in Charlotte have led to injuries, death, and destruction. According to…
by Josh Guckert On Thursday afternoon, “Gary Johnson” began trending on Twitter. This appears to have stemmed from an article from Mother Jones. The piece by Jeremy Schulman entitled “Gary Johnson Wants to Ignore Climate Change Because the Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day” and subtitled with “Attention, millennials…” seems only the latest attempt by…
by Rachel Stoltzfoos The Dallas Morning News is offering massively discounted subscriptions to its readers in an effort to withstand the fallout caused by its editorial board’s endorsement of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The endorsement has generated a lot of reader pushback in the form of angry comments, phone calls and vows to unsubscribe from the paper, which…
by Blake Neff A video from Charlotte’s rioting reportedly shows more than a dozen rioters fighting over the contents of a smashed-open cash register. The video was posted around 1 a.m. by Myrna Perez, an independent journalist who has been recording the events of Charlotte. After a looter succeeds in smashing open the register, a…
by Josh Guckert In 1968, the Supreme Court created the “stop and frisk” standard in the case of Terry v. Ohio. Since then, many cities have instituted such a policy allowing for officers to stop individuals if there is “reasonable suspicion” that they have committed or are about to commit a crime. Further, the officer may…
by Jonah Bennett A majority of active-duty troops stringently oppose nation-building efforts abroad, according to a new poll, preferring instead that the military focus on doing what it does best: killing terrorists and keeping the homeland safe. Commissioned by Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, the poll found that…