by Josh Guckert In perhaps one of the most shocking comments of the 2016 election cycle, Fox News commentator Sean Hannity suggested that President Barack Obama and his family should leave for Africa and never come back. In treating as truth a satirical article which stated that Obama planned to move to Canada if Donald Trump were…
by Ryan Pickrell A married Chinese man kidnapped his illegitimate son and sold him to pay his debts, three days after being beaten by creditors, the Paper revealed. Mr. Chen, a 33-year-old resident of Zhejiang, racked up around $450,000 in debt after his business investments tanked. Fearing a follow-up to the beating he received from his…
by Kitty Testa According to the Innocence Project, “Astonishingly, more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.” Most of us believe that we would never confess to a crime we did not commit, but many people are unable to stand up…
by Josh Guckert A new petition has begun online which demands that a British supermarket called Asda stop selling children’s shirts depicting a snowman with the caption “I’m having a meltdown.” Protesters suggest that this phraseology is insensitive to the mentally ill. The pleading states: Last year Asda showed how little they care for people suffering…
by Steve Birr Proponents of a new tax on electronic cigarettes are blaming the devices for tobacco use among children and claim they are contributing to the “tobacco epidemic.” Proposition 56 in California will hike the state’s tobacco tax from 87 cents to $2.87. The ballot would also allow the state government to begin taxing…
by Kevin Daley Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled-down on a campaign pledge to recalibrate libel laws to make it easier for public figures to sue the press for allegedly defamatory or disparaging reportage. Trump told Jim DeFede of Miami’s CBS affiliate that he supports applying slander and libel standards codified in the United Kingdom…
by Josh Guckert UPDATE 11/10/2016: Well, Donald Trump is the next President of the United States. With that in mind, this list is even more pertinent. With election day now only 15 days away, the Republican Party is likely 16 days away from a post-mortem which will attempt to diagnose how it got stuck with Donald…
by Josh Guckert Election Day 2016 is only 15 days away. Donald Trump is currently expected to lose to Hillary Clinton in a massive landslide. Libertarians have plenty of qualms with each candidate. Clinton is likely the most dishonest and corrupt presidential candidate in recent memory. In spite of her having almost no chance of…
by Josh Guckert In a new poll conducted by the Associated Press, Libertarian candidate for the 1st Congressional District in Massachusetts Thomas Simmons is only 4 points away from overtaking Democratic incumbent Richard Neal. Neal has served in the House of Representatives since 1989. Having no primary challenger or Republican opponent, Simmons and Independent Frederick Mayock are…
by Eric Lieberman The Swedish Cancer Society, an independent nonprofit, has changed an instructional breast-examination video by making the boobs square-shaped after Facebook censored its content. “Our main task is to raise and distribute money for cancer research,” the organization’s website reads. Other tasks “within the frame of the Swedish Cancer Society’s opinion-leading efforts is cancer prevention,”…