By Blake Neff Life is imitating art like never before, as engineers at Boeing have hit upon a novel solution to the problem of laser weapons making no noise when in use: having them artificially make the same sounds as lasers in the Star Wars films. Boeing’s High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) is designed to shoot down aerial targets, such…
A woman died after receiving silicone butt implants from an uncertified doctor in Queens. Kelly Mayhew was found unresponsive in a Queens home on Saturday when authorities found her. The landlord had previously been suspicious about women frequently coming and going from the flat where the surgery took place. Mayhew, who worked at BET, had driven…
AURORA, CO – Former kitchen manager Della Curry lost her job after it was found that she was giving free lunches away to hungry children. The Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora Colorado let her go last Friday when it was discovered that she was giving lunches to children who didn’t have money to pay….
Former advisor to President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, gave an interview to an Israeli news station where he claimed that the president was hurt over accusations that he was anti-semitic. “You know, I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office,” the president reportedly told Mr. Axelrod. “For…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Two vets who served on the battlefields of France in World War I were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House Tuesday. Henry Johnson was part of the all-black “Harlem Hellfighters” regiment. He almost singlehandedly fended off at least a dozen Germans in the trenches, armed…
By Blake Neff A 50-page report released on Monday by New Jersey’s Department of Education rates over 97 percent of the state’s teachers as either “effective” or “highly effective.” Out of New Jersey’s roughly 100,000-strong teaching corps, just 2,900, or 2.8 percent, received the lesser ratings of “partly effective” or “ineffective.” Under the state’s rating system, a…
By Bedford After a series of recent reports exposed the FBI’s fleet of domestic spy planes, Congress is demanding answers. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, wrote a letter calling on FBI Director James Comey to give the public the skinny on how much he is invading Americans’ privacy with his fleet of small spy planes….
By Connor D. Wolf A plan by the Los Angeles City Council to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 could result in an anti-gang charity firing half of their cases– men and woman already at risk of returning to a life of crime. Late last month the city council voted 14 to 1 on a…
By Blake Neff A sex ed teacher in Minneapolis caused an uproar after she took her class on a field trip to an adult novelty store without telling parents. The Smitten Kitten bills itself as “a progressive sex toy store for everyone,” and “everyone” apparently includes middle school-aged students at Gaia Democratic School, an unconventional K-12 private school…
By Peter Fricke Former Republican Rep. Ron Paul claims that even though the Export-Import Bank benefits hostile regimes, interventionists support it because it subsidizes the military-industrial complex. The libertarian-minded Paul outlined his objections to the bank in his weekly column for the Ron Paul Institute. He said taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize either state-owned foreign companies or “America’s biggest…