By Casey Harper The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution recognizes same-sex marriage, but Justice Antonin Scalia spun up a scorching dissenting opinion lambasting the court for its decision. “The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” Scalia wrote. He went on, his style some of the most…
By Casey Harper The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the U.S. Constitution recognizes same-sex marriage nationwide in Obergefell v. Hodges, one of the biggest Supreme Court cases in history. The case asked two major questions: 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license gay marriages? 2. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a…
A tourist in Britain was messing with a member of the Queen’s guard when he suddenly realized why screwing with someone with a bayonet is a bad idea. The Ministry of Defense is supporting the guard’s behavior, saying they were disappointed at the rude tourist who was willing to show such disrespect. You Might Like: Florida…
By Erica Wenig Attackers stormed a factory and killed one person in a suspected terror attack on a U.S.-based chemical factory in France on Friday. Two individuals beheaded a man, put the severed head on a gate at the industrial gas factory’s entrance, and posted an Arabic-language note to it, Bloomberg reports. Then, attackers drove into gas cylinders, trying to…
By Blake Neff Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University graduate immortalized as “Mattress Girl” for carrying a mattress as her senior thesis, has been accused of launching an organized “anti-male” campaign with Columbia’s support by the attorneys representing Paul Nungesser, the man she accused of raping her. Sulkowicz became a national celebrity in 2014 when she began a senior art project…
A video currently going viral shows a horrific scene of a black girl attacking a white mother holding her baby. The Libertarian Republic has contacted several news outlets to confirm the location and date of the incident, but so far details are not yet available. Some reports have incorrectly linked this to a similar incident…
By Josh Fatzick Roads are pretty bad across the entire country, but none are as bad as the ones in the nation’s capital, according to new data gathered by TripNet, a transportation research firm. The TripNet report, which was compiled from Federal Highway Administration data, shows that while 28 percent of the country’s major roadways are in “poor”…
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. Army confirmed Wednesday it won’t be changing the titles of bases named after Confederate generals. For the military, the generals aren’t being honored because of their ideology, but because of their individual characters, Stars and Stripes reports. Following the shooting at a black church which left nine dead in Charleston, S.C.,…
