By Casey Harper Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a serious embarrassment over the weekend when Congress let certain key provisions of the Patriot Act expire at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning. At the end of a chaotic weekend and with a new bill likely to pass in the next few days addressing the vast and complex federal surveillance…
CANADA – A Canadian man was denied entry into a bicycle shop on account of his gender. The bike shop called “Bikeworks” only allows “Women, Trans and Gender Non-Binary” visitors on three Sundays a month in order to create a “safe space,” free from men. “If you do not identify as woman, trans or non-binary, you…
by Alex Tabarrok A resident of Mountain View writes about their interactions with self-driving cars (from the Emerging Technologies Blog): I see no less than 5 self-driving cars every day. 99% of the time they’re the Google Lexuses, but I’ve also seen a few other unidentified ones (and one that said BOSCH on the side)….
By Casey Harper A new set of polls spell bad news for Democratic Presidential front runner Hillary Clinton. A CNN ORC poll released Tuesday found that 50 percent of Americans view Hillary Clinton unfavorably, the worst the candidate has been viewed since March 2001. In a one on one match up with any top Republican contender, she’s closer than ever…
By Blake Neff The Supreme Court Monday ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania man who was convicted in federal court for statements he made on Facebook, holding that current federal law is too broad in what it classifies as criminally threatening statements. The case, Elonis v. United States, began back in 2010. After his wife left him, Anthony Douglas Elonis began posting surreal…
By Blake Neff Published: June 1, 2015 A British cycling enthusiast attending a World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) event caused a stir Sunday when he was booted from the event for becoming too aroused. The WNBR event in Canterbury was exactly what it sounds like, with cyclists asked to go “as bare as you dare” while riding around…
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The U.S. Army announced that all eight women who attempted to become Rangers failed to meet the basic minimum standards. Some are saying the standards should be changed. Is that the case? Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast takes a look at the standards that are required for soldiers to be integrated into combat…
By Josh Fatzick Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI and CIA for the records of Cynthia Lennon, who died in April after a short battle with cancer, yielded exactly two pages of results, yet still somehow spoke volumes. The FBI, which hosted voluminous files on John, replied that it had nothing on Cynthia, and…
WEST VIRGINIA – Kenneth Smith has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education on behalf of his daughter, who is a veterinary studies major. Smith’s suit claims that the teaching of evolution is hampering his daughter’s dream to become a veterinarian. Smith’s argument is that the education department is violating the constitution and infringing…
The MTA has been asking men to keep their legs closed, without any sense of irony. And now, someone has been arrested for it. The government of New York spent on an ad campaign telling men to stop sitting with their legs spread. On May 22nd, police arrested two Latino men on the charge of…