NEW JERSEY – Mischele Lewis is a suburban mom and activist who’s pushing legislation to make it a crime for men to lie in order to get sex. Lewis wants the police to arrest men if they lie about things like having children, or living in a beautiful home when they really are just camping…
Senator Rand Paul has been making the media rounds lately, appearing on at least half a dozen popular television shows. The Libertarian Republic has compiled a few of the best interviews from the last 24 hours. First up we have an important interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News. Paul is questioned about his filibuster…
By Peter Fricke Oakland officials say they will not contribute any taxpayer dollars toward building a new stadium for the Raiders, even if that means the team will move back to Los Angeles. Although Raiders owner Mark Davis and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have yet to receive an official response from either Oakland or Alameda…
By Blake Neff The right of parents to have their children walk by themselves received a boost in Maryland Tuesday, as two “free range” parents successfully vanquished an effort by the state’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to find them guilty of child neglect. Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, who live in the D.C. suburb of Silver Spring,…
By Connor D. Wolf Weighing in on the importance of his campaign, presidential hopeful and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders noted if his campaign fails, it’s not just a reflection on him but also a reflection on his ideas. “If I do badly, and I don’t run a good campaign, and we don’t get our message…
By Blake Neff A Marine veteran diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been suspended from school and labeled a possible threat after requesting to have a non-Muslim counselor, Campus Reform reports. Jeremy Rawls served two tours in Iraq and is a rising senior at Mississippi College, a Baptist school with about 5,000 students. He says his academic career has been derailed since the college…
By Ivan Plis A hotshot lawyer in Kenya’s capital is prepared to offer President Barack Obama 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats for the hand of his 16-year-old daughter Malia. In an interview with The Nairobian, Felix Kaprono says he first “got interested in [Malia] in 2008,” when she was 9 and 10 years old during Obama’s…
Renewables Are Disruptive to Coal and Gas by Ramez Naam Over the last 5 years, the price of new wind power in the US has dropped 58% and the price of new solar power has dropped 78%. That’s the conclusion of investment firm Lazard Capital. The key graph is here (here’s a version with US…
By Ramez Naam Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have recently expressed concern that development of AI could lead to a ‘killer AI’ scenario, and potentially to the extinction of humanity. None of them are AI researchers or have worked substantially with AI that I know of. (Disclosure: I know Gates slightly from my…
A British research project found that women are buying sexual services more now than ever. Researchers believe that it has to do with the fact that busy women no longer have the time for intimate relationships. The initial findings come from Lancaster and Manchester Metropolitan University, and were conducted on a group of 21 male…