By Blake Neff A report by local Washington D.C. news station NBC4 indicates that over 60,000 low-income students in the area are skipping lunch, dissatisfied with the food offered to them by their schools. In Fairfax County, Virginia, which contains much of D.C.’s Virginia suburbs, 16 percent of students eligible for free lunch don’t eat on a…
NBC News is reporting on the American public’s response to their question about whether NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a patriot or a traitor. Citizens were asked to tweet their response using hashtags, and they did so in great numbers during a 36 hour window in which NBC tracked the hashtags. But before you watch…
President Barack Obama gave a speech at West Point recently where he discussed his administration’s foreign policy agenda. The Washington Post wrote that the President’s speech was a ‘takedown’ of Senator Rand Paul, claiming that the veiled messages were pointed jabs at ‘isolationists’ and ‘realists.’ Although he never mentioned Paul by name, Obama chastised those…
Appearing in an exclusive interview with NBC, whistleblower Edward Snowden declared: “I’m a Patriot.” The former NSA contractor who revealed the extent of the U.S. government’s domestic surveillance programs claims that he did so in order to inform the American people about the unconstitutional breaches of 4th amendment rights. Snowden claimed that he did so…
By Blake Neff A senior at Duke University is suing the school for his diploma after he was expelled from the college due to a rape accusation. As reported by a local paper, the Indy Week, Lewis McLeod, Class of 2014, is demanding that the school provide him with his degree so that he can move on…
ENFIELD, CT – Enfield police claim that John Dewees Jr. threw his ill wife into a bathtub and beat her to death, allegedly because he was tired of changing her dirty diapers. Dewees was arrested and charged with manslaughter after Anja Dewees was found dead in the bathtub. A medical examiner ruled the death a…
By Michael Bastasch Despite hype by environmentalists and many media outlets, the slow collapse of major glaciers in western Antarctica is nothing new, according to scientists. The warming and cooling in the south pole is well in line with historical trends dating back thousands of years. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released two major…
President Obama chastised reporter Alexis Simendinger for asking a question about Syria during a science fair exhibit. The president was noticeably irritated and scolded her saying, “I’m sorry, we’re doing a science fair – C’mon. C’mon.” The president then stormed off, leaving the press behind.
Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is in the news for criticizing the parents of the victims of the murderer in Isla Vista. Wurzelbacher stated in a letter to the parents that “your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights,” after one of them called for more restrictive gun measures. But was Joe’s response appropriate? Or, did…
Kudos to the good people at FreeThoughProject for finding this hilarious story from the UK which shows a man wearing a pig mask and police costume being arrested for impersonating a police officer. Steven Peers was arrested in Manchester when trying to bring attention to police corruption. His costume was intended to be a joke,…