By Jonah Bennett A retired four-star general was released on bond last week after eating food without paying for it and assaulting a Chinese food delivery driver. William J. Livsey had apparently ordered food from the Royal Chef restaurant. When the driver showed up with the delivery, Livsey tried to pay with his debit card….
By Guy Bentley Marijuana users are often stereotyped as unhealthy, munchie-ridden, fast food devotees, but a new study in the Journal of Obesity could turn the turn the popular assumption on its head. A study comparing cannabis users to those who abstained from the drug found there was an association between marijuana use and a lower…
By Josh Fatzick Just minutes after being set free from jail, an illegal immigrant who had already been deported once stole a woman’s car and threatened to kill her. Guaymar Cabrera-Hernandez, 24, had been held in the Montgomery County Detention Center since June before being released Monday afternoon, FOX5 reports. Upon his release, Cabrera-Hernandez approached a woman in…
By Ivan Plis Russia’s Internet oversight agency said Monday that in order to block a contested article about drugs, it would have to block all of Wikipedia. In the announcement, the government body said that if Wikipedia would not willingly block a Russian-language article about charas, a marijuana product, it would have no other choice than…
by Ben Seidman Over at the Washington Post, former Reason staffer Dave Weigel writes about the possible end of “The Libertarian Moment.” Weigel quotes from several other right-of-center sources who all seem to agree that there’s at least an ebb from where things were a year ago, and much of it is tied to…
By Casey Harper UPDATE: Louisiana Senior Trooper Steven Vincent died Monday morning, according to Louisiana State Police releases. “You’re going to die soon.” These are the alleged final words a man said while standing over the body of a wounded Louisiana police officer, picked up by the officer’s camera. The man burst out of his truck wielding a…
By Blake Neff A guide to preventing “bias incidents” published by Rutgers University warns students that the idea of “free speech” is a lie, Campus Reform reports. “There is no such thing as ‘free’ speech. All speech has a cost and consequences,” opens the page dedicated to the school’s “Bias Prevention & Education Committee.” The page, maintained by…
Breitbart is reporting that actress Ellen Page ambushed presidential candidate and senator Ted Cruz over gay rights. From Breitbart: Page, dressed incognito, pressed Cruz for his thoughts on “people getting fired just for being gay or trans,” to which Cruz said he believed Christians are being persecuted in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June…
By Jonah Bennett A Phoenix Department of Veterans Affairs police investigator claims he was pressured by a supervisor to lie and write false statements about a medical patient, in order to justify unlawful detention, according to an internal investigative report. On Nov. 4, 2013, VA police responded to a call from staff at the Phoenix VA. A patient placed…
By Blake Neff An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat “overpolicing” in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldn’t agree to prosecute people caught stealing. “I just don’t think that they should be…