by Amber Randall A picture posted to Imgur Saturday reveals Google’s search engine autocompletes the query “Muslim Dad” with some brutal phrases. When a user types in “Muslim dad,” the first autocomplete is tame, pulling up searches for “muslim dad dnc.” This refers to the speech a Muslim father gave at the Democratic National Convention in honor of his solider…
By Blake Neff An official in the Washington education department has sent an email to the state’s schools urging them to prepare students for “increasing levels of fear and anxiety” because of the so-called “Trump effect.” Teachers are told to create “safe places,” plan for “recovery” from election rhetoric, incorporate election-related lessons in the classroom, and provide students…
By Amber Randall A former transgender employee at Abercrombie & Fitch is suing the clothing store because it fired her for not following the company’s dress policy. Maha Shalaby, a transgender who transitioned from female to male, is suing for $35 million because the company allegedly forced her to wear female clothes instead of allowing her to wear…
By Rebekah Fiedler (Stonegait Institute) More and more groups are popping up around the country advocating for state and local governments to implement smoking bans in privately owned bars, restaurants, and other establishments saying that second-hand smoke is a danger to society and that bans imposed on smoking is necessary for the health and safety of workers and patrons. At…
By Blake Neff The NBA announced Thursday afternoon it is taking the 2017 All-Star Game away from Charlotte, North Carolina because of the state’s HB2 law requiring people to use a public bathroom that aligns with their birth gender. The HB2 law, passed by North Carolina’s legislature in March, overrode a local Charlotte civil rights…
By Blake Neff What’s it like to hole up in a special “safe space” during the RNC? Very, very sad, it turns out, unless you really like coloring books. Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) grabbed headlines, and no small degree of ridicule, when it was revealed the school was maintaining a special “safe space” during the…
By Amber Randall Black rapper A$AP Rocky said “all lives matter” in an interview Wednesday as he talked about the “bandwagon stuff” of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rocky had an interview with the Breakfast Club to clarify comments he made in a 2015 Time Out New York interview that resurfaced earlier this week, reports The…
I really like Milo Yiannopoulos, he has done more to soften the Republican party’s opinion of gays than the entire liberal side of the LGBTQ movement combined. But as reported earlier, Milo has been banned by Twitter. With all of the brouhaha about Milo, I wanted to see what he did wrong, so I started…
During a routine traffic stop, Westland Michigan Police Officer Joshua Scaglione noticed that the daughter of the man he had pulled over, a Mr. LaVonte Dell, was not sitting in a car seat. Mr. Dell described what happened next in an interview with ABC News: “The officer told me why he pulled me over, which…
By Casey Harper A Wichita, Kan., police officer couldn’t help but drop some sick dance moves with Black Lives Matter activists, and now video of the performance has gone viral. Officer Aaron Moses attended a community cookout and began dancing with Black Lives Matter activists Sunday, KSN reports. Video of the cookout shows Moses doing the “Cha…