Englishman Aminur Chowdhury was outside a pub in Bradford, West Yorkshire when a raving homeless man began to shout racial epithets at him. Chowdhury started to walk away – but then decided to take an unusual course of action. “Initially I turned the other cheek – but then I was challenging Ben about what he…
BREVARD, FL – Video emerged yesterday of a heated confrontation between a Florida judge and a public defender. The incident began during a public hearing after a disagreement in the courtroom. In the video, Brevard County Judge John Murphy is heard saying, “If you want to fight, let’s go out back and I’ll just beat…
Last year, 16-year-old Kiera Wilmont set off a small chemical reaction as part of a teacher-assigned science project. Wilmont’s school – Bartow High in Bartow, Florida – responded with a fit of deranged and nonsensical hysteria, expelling her from the school for violating an arcane zero-tolerance policy. Wilmont, a promising student, was then arrested and…
LOS ANGELES, CA–Jesus Pimentel believes the Constitution is on his side in a lawsuit he filed against the city of Los Angeles. His ticket for a parking violation quickly spiraled out of control after he missed the two-week deadline to pay and had other fees arbitrarily tacked-on. A $63 fine ballooned up to $175, and…
AUSTIN, TX–Glen Ridge Drive is the site of an unlikely mini rebellion. A flag made famous by the Battle of Gonzales, the birthplace of the Texas revolution, waves proudly from a treehouse that the city of Austin is trying to take down. The Meroney family and their neighbors challenge, “Come and take it!” It all…
TULSA, OK – Despite recently crowing over their non-victory of getting Chipotle’s corporate office to agree to request gun owners forgo their Second Amendment rights in Chipotle franchises, anti-gun group Moms Demand Action were thrown out of a Tulsa franchise after harassing open-carry activists. Members of the anti-gun group were soliciting signatures around the…
In response to Elliot Rodger’s Isla Vista killing spree – driven largely by a hatred of women, but also by other factors including a hatred of Asians – feminists launched the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen. Twitter users used the hashtag to associate Rodger’s murderous rampage – which killed four men and two women – with their…
“He’s only a baby. He didn’t deserve any of this,” says Alecia Phoensavanh. Phoensavanh’s 19-month-old son, Bounkham Phonesavanh, is in the hospital with critical burns after police lobbed a flash grenade into his playpen during a no-knock raid. Police raided the home in the middle of the night as part of a search for an…
PHOENIX, AZ–The incompetence of government health care continues to be revealed as VA scandals continue to make headlines, but there’s one place a vet can still go to be taken care of. Last week, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona stated vets were receiving better care in prison than at the VA hospital. As…