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Blake Neff In an interview released Monday by NPR, President Barack Obama praised recent student protests that have rocked campuses in recent months as a “good thing,” but urged them not to “shut people up” in the process. Obama gave a wide-ranging interview on topics from ISIS to Donald Trump, and one of the topics NPR…
Senator Lindsey Graham has suspended is his 2016 bid for the White House by Joey Clark [dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]indsey Graham is a man known for many things–his peach fuzz South Carolina drawl, his humble beginnings whereby he was reared in his daddy’s pool hall listening to the clickety-clackety-clack of the balls, his notorious bachelorhood about which…
A group of Kenyan Muslims banded together to save the lives of Christians when the bus they were riding on together was attack by Islamic radicals. Eyewitnesses say that the Muslims on the bus refused to be split into groups by the gunmen, insisting they kill them all or leave them all be. BBC has…
Jacob Bojesson An Air France plane from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspicious package was found in the restroom. Four people have been arrested for what was first called a “bombing attempt,” but later downgraded to a “nasty joke.” A passenger found the device in a cupboard…
Casey Harper A Wyoming school that told students they couldn’t pray in the cafeteria has lifted the ban after a Christian legal group threatened legal action on constitutional grounds. A small group of students at Platte County School District #1 created a prayer circle in the cafeteria of Glendo High School to pray for their meal on…
JP Carroll France passed a bill Thursday aimed at banning the use of super skinny fashion models by requiring them to obtain a doctor’s medical approval to work in the fashion industry. The law passed by the French National Assembly requires models to see a doctor, and requires photos that have been edited to alter a model’s…
Blake Neff A homeless man in North Carolina allegedly posed as an Army soldier and lived in a special forces barracks at Fort Bragg for eight months before being caught, according to a popular military Facebook page. The incident was first reported on the Facebook page U.S. Army W.T.F! Moments in a detailed post. The Fayetteville Observer…
Guy Bentley The number of Americans who have died from a drug overdose attributable to opioids soared by 14 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed that between 2000 and 2014 a stunning 500,000 people have died as a result…
Santa Claus appears to have come early for one community. An anonymous man has paid off $106,000 worth of layaway tabs at a Walmart in Northeast Ohio. The man told Walmart employees he wished to remain nameless, but that he liked to do something nice for others on his birthday. The mystery benefactor visited two…
Russ Read ISIS Pharmaceuticals announced Friday it will be bowing to terrorists by changing its name to Ionis Pharmaceuticals to disassociate itself from Islamic State (also known as ISIS). Ionis is unfortunately not the only victim of being associated with the terror group, as many organizations have changed their names in order to avoid confusion…