By Erica Wenig The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack outside a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas — its first on U.S. soil — and warned of future attacks. Two gunmen opened fire outside the event and wounded a security guard before being shot by police officers Sunday. The suspected assailants were Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi,…
Cheers To 25 Years Of Predicting The Global Warming Apocalypse By Michael Bastasch For decades now, those concerned about global warming have been predicting the so-called “tipping point” — the point beyond which it’ll be too late to stave off catastrophic global warming. It seems like every year the “tipping point” is close to being…
By Connor D. Wolf The Trans-Pacific Partnership is likely to become one of the most significant international trade deals in recent history. As a result, the talks have attracted significant support and opposition from various groups. Though there is a lot information out there about TPP, much of it is agenda based or purely speculative. It…
By Michael Bastasch Published: May 4, 2015 Siv Jensen is seen as an anomaly in Norway. She’s the conservative finance minister of a country committed to fighting global warming, but she does not believe mankind is causing global temperatures to rise. In a recent interview, Jensen said “no” when asked if she believed mankind was causing…
A woman in Russia picked a fight with a drunk man on a park bench, thinking that he was probably too inebriated to defend himself. She thought wrong. Surveillance video shows the woman approaching the drunk man on the park bench and looking as if she was going to grab his personal belongings. After taunting…
By Josh Fatzick The American Civil Liberties Union’s District of Columbia chapter called on the city’s council to block funding for mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to outfit all city cops with body cameras until a “carefully crafted FOIA statute can be enacted.” The organization said it wants to balance the desire for police accountability with the need…
The ISIS-Fighting, Female Army Vet And Mother Of Three: ‘I Cried On The Way To The Airport’ By Erica Wenig Islamic State horrors have drawn some U.S. veterans back into battle, and then there’s Samantha Jay, the 25 year-old mother of three small children who left everything to fight the Islamic State. Samantha Lois Jay Johnston, her full…
Little 6-year-old George is definitely NOT a vegetarian. George’s mom explains to him about what it means to eat a cheeseburger. His adorable response is funny and heartwarming to carnivores around the world. This video reminded us Ron Swanson, and we think he would want us to share it with you, if he were alive…
By Josh Fatzick This newly released video from San Francisco obtained by ABC News shows transit cops in the area brutally slamming a drunk woman face-first into the ground, which knocked her out and left her with several broken teeth, multiple face fractures and a pool of blood on the ground. WATCH [start at 2:03]: It…
By Jonah Bennett Firearm sales since the Sandy Hook school shooting have skyrocketed, and the federal government is raking in tax revenue by the hundreds of millions–$875 million dollars in 2013 alone, to be exact. According to data provided to Vocativ, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which is part of the Treasury, mandates…