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…
Al Sharpton marched at a rally at Shiloh Baptist Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and received a less than warm welcome from a local pastor. “Don’t you come up in here asking for money,” shouted Marcus Jarvis over the sounds of the church. Sharpton was being challenged after he asked every preacher present to donate to…
“A republic, if you can keep it,” Benjamin Franklin was to have said. But what is a republic? And does America qualify, after more than 100 years of progressive victory in public life? It’s often said amongst libertarians, that America is no Democracy, and that’s true. We are a constitutional republic. But the form of…
A heated debate on Fox Business with Stuart Varney saw him kicking anti-fracking activist Josh Fox off the set after he accused the host of lying. Fox was the director of “Gasland,” the popular documentary which attempted to prove that fracking causes the contamination of drinking water. The debate grew tense when Fox brought up the fact…
There are all types of libertarians in the world, and they come from all sorts of backgrounds. Whether you’re a crypto-anarchist, or a constitutional conservative, this quiz is going to figure you out. Please note, this is the official quiz of libertarianism, and thus, no other quizzes are valid. All results are final, non-negotiable, and…