Steve Ambrose on September 30, 2015 French architect Jacques Rougerie has created the design for an actual floating city … a futuristic Atlantis that he envisions as some kind of libertarian utopian dream. Named the “City of Mériens,” it would hold roughly 7,000 individuals. City of Mériens would extend to almost 3,000 feet in length and…
Guy Bentley on September 29, 2015 Uber’s largest operation in Europe is under threat from a new regulatory consultation that completely changes the way the company operates. Transport for London (TfL) is planning to consult on a swathe of new regulations for the taxi market that would make the Uber experience almost unrecognisable and could…
Stoners across the country are green with envy after a 28-pound bundle of marijuana fell from the sky and crash landed into one Nogales, Arizona family’s carport. The package fell from heights high enough to turn it into a cannabis cannonball, which ripped through the family’s carport and destroyed a dog carrier inside–luckily the dog carrier wasn’t…
By the wryly rabble rouser, R. Brownell Why the Non Aggression Principle is Stupid: a further analysis of Matt Zwolinski’s argument 1. Parents don’t have the right to starve their children Maybe Murray Rothbard had a higher opinion than I have of the moral aptitude of children, but I think I speak for many people…
From The Farrell File: 16 year-old Meadow Rain Walker, daughter of Fast and Furious star Paul Walker, claimed in a civil lawsuit filed on Monday that her father’s death was the result of faulty designs by Porsche. Walker died November 30th, 2013 in Venice, California when the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT being driven by Roger Rodas lost…
by Juliegrace Brufke Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be on to something with his campaign slogan. A Bloomberg poll released Thursday shows 72 percent of the country thinks the United States isn’t as great as it once was. When asked for the two main issues they thought were the greatest threats to America’s greatness, 31…
Steve Ambrose Transportation Security Administration agents at the Orlando International Airport stopped a transgendered passenger when a suspicious “anomaly” appeared on a body scan. The anomaly was her penis. As expected, the TSA has again come under blistering criticism for their lack of competence when it comes to protecting the nation’s airports. The passenger in question was…
Blake Neff Syracuse University has ditched its use of a “kiss cam” at football games after a lone letter to the editor claimed it was inappropriate when colleges are trying to stamp out sexual assault. It all started last week, when Syracuse student Steve Port sent a letter to The Post-Standard complaining about what he…
Blake Neff Several American Indian activists are in an uproar at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, arguing the Ivy League school has become the latest to facilitate an academic’s bogus claims of Indian heritage. Last week, Dartmouth announced that it was naming Susan Taffe Reed director of the school’s Native American Program. Taffe Reed’s roles will…
Michael Bastasch CNN’s Jake Tapper tried to highlight the differences between Republican presidential candidates over the issue of manmade global warming last night, but his debate plan to get candidates to go head-to-head on climate failed. After invoking the name of George Schultz, President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, Tapper asked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio…