Two-Four-Six-Eight! Who Do We Annihilate? Dad! Dad! Gooooo Dad! SALISBURY, MD – Two fathers with daughters on a cheerleading squad escalated their war of words into a real-life fist fight, leaving one bloody and battered. The fathers were apparently arguing over the fact that one girl supposedly got the other girl kicked off the squad,…
By Michael Bastasch The U.S. has signed an agreement with four other countries bordering the Arctic to ban commercial fishing in the North Pole until more is known about the region’s natural resources and ecosystems. The Department of State says it’s taking a “precautionary approach to prevent unregulated fishing” in the North Pole. The government,…
By Connor D. Wolf In the name of fairness, congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would put significant restrictions on how employers schedule their employees. “This bill is about basic fairness,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement. “A single mom should know if her hours are being canceled before she arranges for daycare…
By Guy Bentley The Greek debt crisis is rumbling on with another last-minute deal reached to save the Euro project, but those saying America could be heading the same way are leaving a lot out of the picture. Many commentators fear that the situation in Greece is a window into America’s future. Massive debt, a largely unreformed…
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – A police officer in Colorado Springs is under fire after video emerged of him violently slamming a handcuffed woman into the ground. The video shows the officer pushing her hard down into the chair, whereupon the girl retaliates with a solid nutshot (that looked deserved). But Officer No So Friendly retaliated…
By Blake Neff A sexual assault policy currently in force at a Georgia public college appears to say the physically disabled are unable to consent to sex. The school in question is Armstrong State University, one of the many schools affiliated with the vast University System of Georgia. The school has a sexual assault policy that has…
By Connor D. Wolf In preparation for a possible federal challenge, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the district court to allow the state to drug-test food stamp recipients. “This lawsuit seeks to provide clarity that the state of Wisconsin has the authority to require drug-testing for FoodShare recipients,” Schimel said in…
By Blake Neff A major donor to Ohio University (OU) is under fire for his novel strategy to fight student and faculty protesters: “Just play the race card!” Steven Schoonover is a trustee for the OU Foundation and has his name emblazoned on the school’s communications building, which he donated over $7 million to build. Now, students…
By Josh Fatzick After speaking with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, D.C.’s Delegate to Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton said she got Clinton’s personal support for the D.C. statehood movement. Norton had been following Clinton to various Capitol Hill Meetings and after the pair left a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Norton popped the D.C. statehood…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The real value of $100 varies sharply from city to city in the U.S., a new map from the Tax Foundation based on federal price data shows. Prices for the same goods are often much higher in major cities such as New York or D.C. than in smaller cities or rural areas….