In his famous short story “Harrison Bergeron,” author Kurt Vonnegut criticizes egalitarianism by describing a dystopian society in which the beautiful are forced to cover themselves with masks and the intelligent are made to endure electric shocks to their brains. If there is one place in which Vonnegut’s nightmare has been most fully realized, it…
Several weeks ago Mother Jones published a sensational article detailing alleged incidents were pro-Second Amendment advocates harassed anti-gun advocates. Despite the interviewees not furnishing proof that these incidents ever happened the way they described, the Mother Jones article painted gun owners as bullies and anti-gun advocates as helpless victims. Leading off the article was…
Amateur MMA fighter Mike Pantangco has become a viral sensation after he tapped out of a fight that he was clearly winning. Pantangco reasons that, because neither fighter was being paid, there was no point in continuing to injure his opponent after he had established himself as the better fighter. “I just feel that there’s…
As the economy continues its downward spiral, some Americans are starting to seek refuge in modern-day Hoovervilles, communities of people living in makeshift shelters. Shanty towns during the Depression era were christened Hoovervilles by DNC publicity chief Charles Michelson, who aimed to depict President Hoover, and the Republican Party in general, as the cause of…
TRENTON, NJ – Just days after news broke that so-called “smart gun” manufacturer Armitix is in the process of patenting a technology that would allow authorities to control the time and place in which “smart guns” can be used, a national anti-gun group filed suit in New Jersey claiming that the state’s attorney general…
“I don’t want my kids to smoke marijuana,” says Marco Rubio. “And I don’t want other people’s kids to smoke marijuana.” Therefore, he reasons, marijuana must remain illegal. Committing a laundry list of elementary logical errors, Rubio has spent the past months extinguishing any hope that he might be joining Republicans like Rick Perry in…
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA–Multiple witnesses are saying the same thing about the death of their neighbor. “They just weren’t done until he was dead.” 44-year-old Ron Hillstrom‘s life was cut short following a brutal encounter with police. According to dozens of witnesses, Hillstrom was pacing in a circle in the parking lot of his apartment complex…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Fourteen months after his now famous “filiblizzard”, Senator Rand Paul vowed last Thursday to oppose David Baron, Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. “I shall not only oppose the nomination of David Barron, but will filibuster,” Paul stated. The Senator’s misgivings stem from two classified opinions Barron…
“I see people like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and,” Rep. Peter King recently told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, and “I don’t want the Republican Party going in that direction.” “Whether it’s me or someone else, I want to do all that I can to make sure that what I call the realistic foreign policy wing…
Armatix GmbH, the smart gun manufacturer at the heart of several recent controversies, recently filed an application for a patent that includes a kill switch for smart guns. According to a translation of the application: Preferably, the apparatus of the invention can be controlled remotely, for example via satellite and can send information to…