RALEIGH, NC – A beautiful moment was captured on video when a police officer was seen saving the life of a man who was threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. The officer was off duty and headed home when he saw the man sitting on the edge of the bridge preparing to…
By Connor D. Wolf Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday his support for a plan to make New York the first state to implement a $15 an hour minimum wage. New York has already been exploring policy options to increase its minimum wage. Back in July the state commission on labor approved a plan to raise…
By Blake Neff A new video released for Friday’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks shows that numerous college students appear to have an incredibly poor grasp of why 9/11 happened. The video, created by the conservative group Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and filmed at Virginia’s George Mason University, shows students expressing total confusion after being asked…
By Casey Harper Office Depot may face a lawsuit after refusing to print flyers that criticize Planned Parenthood, saying the flyers “persecute” people who believe in abortion rights. Maria Goldstein, 42, of Illinois asked Office Depot on Aug. 20 to print 500 anti-Planned Parenthood fliers, but the employee refused. The flier had facts about Planned Parenthood from…
By Jonah Bennett An experimental Marine Corps study looking at female integration into ground combat units has determined that women perform far worse than men. The study, called the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force (GCEITF), was conducted with 200 male and 75 female volunteers to provide officials with more information on how females perform…
Listen: Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina took a big, fat swipe against his Republican presidential opponent Mike Huckabee.. Graham took issue with Governor Huckabee’s stalwart defense of Kentucky marriage license clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed after she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. In an interview with Michael Medved, Graham slammed Huckabee,…
By Tom O’Brien In 2009, Governor Chris Christie was the rock-star of the Republican party. After years of mismanagement by Democratic administrations in the state of New Jersey, mainly previous Governor John Corzine, Christie promised to clean up the fiscal disaster that was New Jersey’s finances. That didn’t happen. The funds that were collected from…
By Josh Fatzick New proposals submitted by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser to the city council would, in many cases, give the mayor final say in which body camera videos are released to the public. Under Bowser’s proposal, all footage of assaults, along with footage of interactions that lead to charges against an officer…
Free association is dead, folks. The upscale gentlemen’s barbershop Barbiere in Washington County, Pennsylvania has been fined $750 for refusing to cut women’s hair. Owner John Interval’s establishment is a place that is known for being a place where guys can come and unwind with a free beer or cocktail. “[I] come here, talk sports,…
By Jonah Bennett The top F-35 program officer Wednesday called the attempt to pit the F-35 against the A-10 in a test “meaningless,” surprising and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Speaking at the ComDef industry conference, Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan said he was somewhat taken aback at the recent decision for the F-35…