Freed Prisoner of War Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is slated to be promoted, fueling speculation about whether or not he will be court martialed after it was revealed by the New York Times that he left a note that allegedly confirms he deserted his platoon. Fellow platoon members have been speaking out against him, claiming that men…
By Blake Neff Legal experts and higher education activists are issuing warnings about a new bill under consideration in California that would dictate how state schools respond to allegations of sexual assault. The bill, passed through California’s Senate 27-9 last Thursday (it must still be approved by the state Assembly), would require any school receiving…
A dummy hanging from a bridge with the likeness of President Barack Obama brought traffic on I-70 in Missouri to a brief halt today. The highway department, Jackson County Sheriff’s Department and a bomb squad removed the effigy while they worked to determine whether there was any bomb threat. The dummy was removed using a…
American Enterprise Scholar Christina Hoff Summers debunks the myth that the phrase “rule of thumb,” popularized in the movie Boondock Saints, came from the idea that a man could beat his wife with a stick no larger than his thumb. Deleted Scene from the movie Boondock Saints
“We will never get justice for women until we dismantle the caste system called gender,” reads feminist Lierre Keith. Speaking to a group at the Multnomah Count Library in Portland, Oregon, Keith advocated for the destruction of the male sex. “Liberty and a living planet will only be won when masculinity, its religion, its economics,…
The Washington Post dissected Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie‘s article titled “Libertarianism 3.0,” which analyzed three distinct epochs in the movement’s history. Gillespie posits that the first wave spans the 1960’s and 70’s, when groups were deciding what it really meant to be a libertarian. Then the second wave, libertarianism 2.0 was the last thirty…
Water Patrol authorities at the Lake of the Ozarks claims that a man who died while in their custody either fell overboard or jumped into the water and drowned. Officers claim that his life jacket slipped off after he fell into the lake. 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson had been arrested for boating while intoxicated and was…
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad (R) signed a bill that allows parents to purchase cannabis oil to treat their children who suffer from epilepsy. The effort was seen as a major victory for advocates who voraciously cornered Republican politicians in the state to demand that they be allowed to treat their children with a medicine that…
OAKLAND, CA – A woman brutally attacked a third grader with a hammer last week. Haseemah Diame, a parent and school volunteer, lured the girl away from the playground into a bathroom and began striking her hard enough to draw blood. The attack is believed to be related to a family feud. Parent Christopher Slaughter…
By Blake Neff Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that her state is pulling out of a multi-state consortium that is designing a national test that applies new Common Core education standards. Arizona was an early governing member of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, bu Brewer’s office announced…