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By: Laura Meyers A Michigan man woke up the other night around 2:30 a.m. to a knife-wielding intruder telling him “You’re going to smoke some weed with me right now.” True story. The man stalled the suspect, who eventually put the knife down. (I’m assuming so that he load the crack pipe. He sounds like…
By: Laura Meyers Abuse of authority at its finest. The former CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., a red light camera company, recently pleaded guilty to a bribery charges with city government officials in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen Finley, the firm’s former chief executive, admitted that she was part of a scheme in which the camera…
By: Laura Meyers The chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, Randy Brogdon, has since apologized after making a Facebook post that suggested giving people food stamps was similar to feeding animals. The post, written this Monday, stated that 46 million Americans participated in the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, and the National Park Service encourages people not to…
By: Laura Meyers The creator of the yellow, pip-squeak minion characters featured in the Despicable Me movie series, says he created the little guys as men because they act too stupid to be made as women. “Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine Minions being girls,” creator Pierre Coffin said in…
By: Laura Meyers Recently released undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services Dr. Deborah Nucatola describing to a “potential client” how to buy tissue, organs, and body parts from dead, partially aborted babies. During the interview, Dr. Nucatola mentions another buyer, by the name of Stem Express, who is another consumer and seller of…
By: Laura Meyers And so it begins. Just like straight couples, homos get preggers, pissed, and divorced too. The Women’s National Basketball Association star, Brittany Griner, is in a marital feud with her wife, fellow WNBA player, Glory Johnson over a lot of money and a secret in vitro procedure. Griner says Johnson had the…
By R. Brownell 1. It Would Stop Competition The ability to become your own boss and work on your own terms is part of what makes these app based technology services so successful. Yet, progressives throughout the country have attempted to stop companies like Uber from classifying the individuals who opt into the business as “private contractors”…
By: Laura Meyers Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb says his Democratic Party has “moved way far to the left.” He hopes to be a more moderate voice against more liberal candidates such as Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. “I believe we can bring a different tone to the Democratic party,” Webb said. “You’re right, the…
By Michael Bastasch Organic farming is often sold as more environmentally friendly, but a new study out of Oregon found that large-scale organic farms are more greenhouse-gas intensive per acre than conventional farms. “My analysis finds that the rise of certified organic production in the United States is not correlated with declines in greenhouse gas emissions…
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By: Laura Meyers A recent video was released of a motorcyclist in Yuma, Arizona being assaulted after allegedly weaving through traffic before a stoplight. The motorcyclist recorded the incident on his helmet camera. The old man can be seen getting out of his car, approaching the driver, and giving him (or his helmet, rather) a solid…