By Michael Bastasch The U.S. has signed an agreement with four other countries bordering the Arctic to ban commercial fishing in the North Pole until more is known about the region’s natural resources and ecosystems. The Department of State says it’s taking a “precautionary approach to prevent unregulated fishing” in the North Pole. The government,…
By: Laura Meyers Abuse of authority at its finest. The former CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., a red light camera company, recently pleaded guilty to a bribery charges with city government officials in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen Finley, the firm’s former chief executive, admitted that she was part of a scheme in which the camera…
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – A police officer in Colorado Springs is under fire after video emerged of him violently slamming a handcuffed woman into the ground. The video shows the officer pushing her hard down into the chair, whereupon the girl retaliates with a solid nutshot (that looked deserved). But Officer No So Friendly retaliated…
By Blake Neff A sexual assault policy currently in force at a Georgia public college appears to say the physically disabled are unable to consent to sex. The school in question is Armstrong State University, one of the many schools affiliated with the vast University System of Georgia. The school has a sexual assault policy that has…
On July seventh, the Colorado Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case Charlie Craig and David Mullins v. Masterpiece Cakeshop, which has drawn national attention. Craig and Mullins were denied service by Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, in July of 2012 when they tried to order a cake for their wedding….
By Casey Harper The South Carolina police officer caught on video fatally shooting Walter Scott as he ran away has been indicted. A grand jury has indicted former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in the April 4 shooting, CNN reports. There is not yet a trial date, and he faces 30 years to…
By Casey Harper A Texas police officer has been put on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing the officer wrestle a 14-year-old girl to the ground before pulling his gun on two black young men. The incident occurred Friday when McKinney police responded to a disturbance at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool where…
by Julie Borowski Robin Speronis lives off the grid in Florida. Her home isn’t connected to water, sewage, or the electrical grid. She has solar panels for electricity and collects rainwater for bathing, drinking, and sewage. For a few years, her self-sufficient lifestyle seemed to be working out for her. That was until she gave an…
By: Laura Meyers A geometry teacher at Encinal High School in Alameda, California is feeling the bad vibrations after he gave students an extra credit assignment to find their parents’ sex toys and condoms, and to take a selfie with their discoveries. You know… typical geometry class. Mothers Kimberly Cobene and Evangeline Garcia heard about…
By: Laura Meyers Recently, British Dame Elish Angiolini has called for a legal change that would assume a woman’s incapacity to consent when intoxicated. This would mean that police would be asked to carry out blood tests on alleged rape victims to establish the level of alcohol content, then calculate how affected she was at the…