By Rachel Stoltzfoos Rousing approval of Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette’s demand for so-called wage equality Sunday night quickly turned to heavy criticism when she expanded on her acceptance speech backstage. “To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights,” Arquette said to…
By Casey Harper Police can track your cell phone so closely they can find you in a crowded room, and that technology is becoming more popular — and more secretive. Police departments across Florida are regularly using devices called “StingRays” to track the movement of people’s cell phones, often without a court order and certainly…
By Blake Neff Published: February 23, 2015 Fat kids are serious business. So serious, in fact, that the United Nations is urging countries to let its bureaucrats micromanage what foods are allowed to advertise on TV. The European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health arm of the U.N., is trying to stop…
A new bill proposed by lawmakers in Missouri would make it so that video footage recorded by police of encounters with citizens would be exempt from being viewed by the public. The bill, introduced by Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster (D) and Sen. Doug Libla (R) is aimed at stifling citizen’s ability to critically analyze…
By Jonah Bennett Published: February 23, 2015 A new study published in Scientific Reports calculates the safety of illicit substances according to risk of death. The findings? Apparently, researchers have been underestimating the dangers of alcohol and overestimating the dangers of marijuana. Based on the data, marijuana appears to be 114 times less deadly than alcohol, and out of…
A new Quinnipiac poll released last week shows that a surprising contender has emerged in the GOP field as the most competitive candidate against Hillary Clinton? Bet a glass of Kentucky bourbon you’ll never guess which one? Senator Rand Paul showed in three swing states, Colorado, Virginia, and Iowa that he is the most likely…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Published: February 23, 2015 Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani moved to explain and qualify his recent comments about President Barack Obama’s love for America in an Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday night. “My blunt language suggesting that the president doesn’t love America notwithstanding, I didn’t intend to question President Obama’s motives…
MILWAUKEE, WI – Former police detective Rodolfo Gomez managed to convince a jury that he “feared for his safety” from a man who he had chained to the wall and savagely beaten in order to extract a confession. Deron Love refused to confess to the killing of his baby, angering Gomez, who repeatedly compelled him…
It’s a tale as old as time, three pigs, three houses… The creators of Sesame Street produced a hilariously beautiful parody of the popular House of Cards series. Set in the background of the Three Little Pigs, Frank Underwolf thinks there’s too much pork in this town, so he sets about blowing their houses down….
Methinks the ladies doth protest too much Patricia Arquette interrupted her own Oscar speech to belch out some economic ignorance about the gender wage gap. Arquette decried the inequality in the rate of wages between men and women, reading the same old tired feminist sob story that women make less than man. But the reality is that…