By Greg Campbell If younger Coloradans are getting their hands on marijuana since the state allowed it to be sold to adults on Jan. 1, they’re apparently not getting it from state-licensed retail stores. Over the past six months, regulators from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division have sent underage customers into 20 marijuana retail stores…
By Blake Neff The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may have to be wary. Badasses are gunning for them. Bearing signs with slogans such as “Schoolchildren’s Dreams, Not Billionaire’s Schemes,” a few hundred fed-up teachers demonstrated Thursday night outside the Gates Foundation’s Seattle headquarters, alleging that the foundation is vilifying teachers while paving the way…
News 4 in Tucson is reporting that a Mexican military chopper crossed the border this morning and fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents. They published the following statements from the incident. Art del Cueto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector union president: The incident occurred after midnight and before 6 a.m. Helicopter flew into the U.S. and…
Whoopi Goldberg made headlines yesterday when she told The View co-host Will Cain that his opinion was “spoken like a true white guy.” The controversial remarks were brought up in light of recent controversies surrounding the naming of the Washington Redskins and the politically correct police. Arguing against the PC police, Cain stated that if…
By Blake Neff Over 1,100 employees of the Chicago Public Schools are getting a pink slip, the school district announced Thursday afternoon. Five hundred fifty of the layoffs, about half, will be teachers, with an additional 600 being support personnel such as clerks and security guards. The newly announced dismissals are in addition to 147…
By Michael Bastasch President Obama is emphasizing global warming ahead of the November elections, but a new poll suggests he faces an uphill climb. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 35 percent of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to mankind is warming the Earth while another 18 percent says the world…
By Jonah Bennett The heightened controversy over the status of the US Export-Import Bank has been taken up by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday in an effort to come to terms on whether the bank’s charter will be renewed in September. The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), an 80-year-old federal agency, provides government-backed loans to…
The Libertarian Republic takes on the topic of actor Gary Oldman’s controversial statements in an interview with Playboy magazine. Oldman outed himself as a “libertarian” who hates political correctness and then went on to defend Mel Gibson and his anti-semitic statements that earned him the ire of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Oldman initially seemed to…
By Blake Neff A new survey of teachers in 34 countries finds that teachers in the United States work harder than their colleagues around the world, but are also happier than them. The survey was conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a global economic organization that primarily consists of Western, high-income democracies. The…
Taxi cab drivers in Washington D.C. are protesting against freedom by staging a major protest in the district. The streets of the capital are totally jammed with cabbies honking and creating a ruckus. Drivers are protesting against Uber and Lyft, which allow people to summon a car service on their mobile phones and pay with…