The Freedom Report podcast today interviews special guest Professor Edward Stringham, economics professor at Trinity College in Connecticut. Stringham’s story from the NY Daily News looks at the numbers of citizens killed in police encounters and compares the data with countries around the world. From the NY Daily News: In the United States, the overall…
By Casey Harper A video taken from a private drone appears to show New York firefighters use a water hose to try to knock the drone from the sky. John Thompson took his private drone, equipped with a video camera, and flew it over a burning home firefighters were responding to in Walden, N.Y., The Smoking Gun reports….
By Blake Neff A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding the test of knowledge illegally discriminated against racial minorities due to their lower scores. At first glance, the city’s second Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST-2) seems fairly innocuous. Unlike the unfair literacy…
By Casey Harper A Michigan judge banned a 23-year-old woman from using a cellphone for two years. Judge Stewart McDonald of Clinton County District Court forbid Mitzi Nelson from using a cellphone or any kind of portable texting electronic device for two full years because of her involvement in the September death of cyclist. Authorities said she hit the cyclist because she was distracted by…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos An Alabama bill designed to outmaneuver a possible Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage by scrapping marriage licenses died quickly in the state House this week after sailing through the Senate. The bill would do away with marriage licenses altogether, and instead require those “legally authorized to be married” to simply sign a legal…
By Jonah Bennett Published: June 6, 2015 The temporary alliance between Republican Sen. John McCain and the White House continues to develop as McCain announced the administration is working on a plan to submit to Congress regarding the closure of Guantanamo Bay. McCain stated Thursday he spoke with President Barack Obama and other administration officials several…
By Blake Neff A Catholic high school in New York is being bashed by a student’s mother after it banned her son from graduation…for shouting ”Fuck Jesus” at a Catholic Mass. The saga, according to the New York news site DNAinfo, started May 12 at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx when Latrell Davis was passing by an auditorium where the school…
By Josh Fatzick A homeless man in Portland, Oregon was on the receiving end of a little street justice Thursday when a few of his fellow homeless friends flipped over a portable toilet he was in. They flipped over the port-a-potty, with the door facing down, so the man was unable to escape, before they…
By Michael Bastasch Scientists may have lied about the EPA’s involvement in a recent study put out earlier this year claiming Obama administration regulations on carbon dioxide emissions will save thousands of lives every year. Emails obtained by the blog JunkScience.com’s Steve Milloy show Harvard University and Syracuse University researchers involved in the study consulted with the EPA…
By Casey Harper America will never be the same. The Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to recommend approval for a drug that would increase a woman’s sex drive, The New York Times reports. The drug, Flibanserin, is a pink pill meant to be taken daily. It had been denied two times by the FDA, but the third time was…