A dummy hanging from a bridge with the likeness of President Barack Obama brought traffic on I-70 in Missouri to a brief halt today. The highway department, Jackson County Sheriff’s Department and a bomb squad removed the effigy while they worked to determine whether there was any bomb threat. The dummy was removed using a…
American Enterprise Scholar Christina Hoff Summers debunks the myth that the phrase “rule of thumb,” popularized in the movie Boondock Saints, came from the idea that a man could beat his wife with a stick no larger than his thumb. Deleted Scene from the movie Boondock Saints
In response to Elliot Rodger’s Isla Vista killing spree – driven largely by a hatred of women, but also by other factors including a hatred of Asians – feminists launched the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen. Twitter users used the hashtag to associate Rodger’s murderous rampage – which killed four men and two women – with their…
“We will never get justice for women until we dismantle the caste system called gender,” reads feminist Lierre Keith. Speaking to a group at the Multnomah Count Library in Portland, Oregon, Keith advocated for the destruction of the male sex. “Liberty and a living planet will only be won when masculinity, its religion, its economics,…
OAKLAND, CA – A woman brutally attacked a third grader with a hammer last week. Haseemah Diame, a parent and school volunteer, lured the girl away from the playground into a bathroom and began striking her hard enough to draw blood. The attack is believed to be related to a family feud. Parent Christopher Slaughter…
A video has emerged of a man pelting a $400,000 Lamborghini with rocks, supposedly because he was tired of it racing through his neighborhood. The man is heard saying ‘keep racing’ as he throws a rock at the vehicle, smashing one of the windows on the vehicle.
By Greg Campbell A Canadian teenager cost the National Park Service thousands of dollars and risked the lives of nearly 30 rescuers when he tried to climb one of Colorado’s most daunting mountains — still covered in snow and ice — wearing sneakers and a T-shirt. Nineteen-year-old Samuel Frappier of Quebec set out for the…
PHOENIX, AZ–The incompetence of government health care continues to be revealed as VA scandals continue to make headlines, but there’s one place a vet can still go to be taken care of. Last week, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona stated vets were receiving better care in prison than at the VA hospital. As…
Female students at a high school in Utah want to know why their yearbook photos were altered without their knowledge to show less skin, KSTU reports. “We only apologize in the sense that we want to be more consistent with what we’re trying to do,” says Superintendent Terry E. Shoemaker.
Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’s Recovery School District – created in 2003 to take over the administration of Louisiana’s lowest-performing schools – is undertaking groundbreaking educational reform. This week, it permanently closed down its five board-run public schools: from now on, all of its facilities will be charter schools. Charter schools are publicly…