By Connor D. Wolf Raising the minimum wage will have severe consequences, especially for those working in the restaurant industry, investor rating service Moody’s warned on Thursday. “A higher minimum wage represents a particular challenge for restaurants, which depend heavily on hourly workers,” William Fahy, vice president and senior credit officer for Moody’s, said in a statement. “But…
By Jonah Bennett What’s happening to women in the military? New research indicates that females in the U.S. military have suicide rates six times higher than civilian women. In fact, although men usually have much higher rates than women, the female military suicide rate is so high that it’s approaching the male military rate, the LA…
Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast zeroes in on Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. During a speech at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the former Hewlett Packard CEO outlined her belief in free market solutions to problems women face in modern society. Fiorina’s vision includes bold solutions such as offering over the counter access to birth…
By Jonah Bennett The Marine Corps Recruiting Command wants to develop a new test to predict what officers will be most successful through candidate school, and what they’d be best fit doing upon graduation. Existing recruiting methods just aren’t cutting it, as officials have identified very particular patterns of otherwise strong candidates dropping out of Officer Candidate School….
By Blake Neff Published: June 11, 2015 The best and brightest of Venezuela’s academics are fleeing the socialist country for better opportunities abroad. While numerous American professors have offered praise for Venezuela’s experiment in “Bolivarian revolution,” professors actually living in the country have had to cope with severe economic turmoil created by the country’s policies. According to a report published Thursday by…
Reddit Bans Web Page For Mocking Fat People By Blake Neff The popular website reddit, which bills itself “the front page of the Internet” and is known for featuring forums called “subreddits” on virtually any topic, has launched a new crackdown on behavior it says constitutes “harassment.” Its first victim? A page dedicated to bashing fat…
By Casey Harper Last weekend, Richard Matt and David Sweat broke through steel and brick, crawled through a metal pipe, and came out on the other side free men in the ‘Shawshank’ style breakout that has sparked a massive manhunt. As if that wasn’t interesting enough, it seems like they might have had inside help, allegedly…
Double standards are funny things. Internet pranksters produced a video showing what happens when a cute girl takes someone’s food and starts eating it in a social experiment that’s going viral around the web. The producers juxtapose this situation with a black guy, who does the same thing as the cute girl, with a totally…
A study from an insurance company in the United Kingdom found that women were more likely to lie than men. The results showed that four out of five females were found to lie up to 30 times a day, or at least twice every hour, compared to two out of five men, who admitted to lying…
By Blake Neff A high school in a Washington, D.C. suburb has erected a large art display bashing police in a central area of the school. Oxon Hill High School is a majority-black school in Prince George’s County, Maryland just south of D.C. The display, apparently created by an art class at the school, was put up…