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By: Laura Meyers You think you’ve seen everything, until the Internet comes along and proves you wrong. The online market has opened doors for international, efficient, and open trade everywhere. But of course that means that some weirdos will want in on the deal; and you know what that means… they’re going to try to sell…
By: Laura Meyers Authorities in Atlanta, Georgia are investigating a Craigslist ad that offers a “guaranteed white” baby in exchange for drugs or cash. “6 months pregnant, don’t want it. Willing to trade it for $ or drugs. Guaranteed white, so don’t come at me cheap, serious offers only,” the ad reads. Atlanta police have…
By: Laura Meyers Ralph Nader (he’s still alive) recently called out Hillary Clinton for being a war hawk because she’s “compensating” for her gender by being overly “militarist” and “macho.” He also said that when she sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Clinton “never met a weapons system that she didn’t like.” “I think Hillary…
By Blake Neff A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding the test of knowledge illegally discriminated against racial minorities due to their lower scores. At first glance, the city’s second Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST-2) seems fairly innocuous. Unlike the unfair literacy…
By: Laura Meyers Mohammed Lokman, from Stamford, Connecticut made a 9-1-1 call at 1:30 a.m. early Wednesday morning to alert authorities that he could not get into his home because his nearly 8-pound cat was being “too aggressive.” Poor guy. An article from CBS New York reports: “I have a problem in my home,” Lokman told 911….
By: Laura Meyers In Pittsburg, the Port Authority public transportation system is removing their slogan off their buses because people have complained that it is offensive… when read backwards. The slogan is “Ziggin’ Zaggin.’” Jim Ritchie, from Port Authority stated, “… due to recent complaints about how this message appears when read backward, we have decided…
By: Laura Meyers In an interview with The Daily Beast, actor John Cusack said that President Obama has been worse than former president George W. Bush. “I’m not sure if you heard the news today, but CNN conducted a poll concluding that George W. Bush’s approval rating is now higher than President Obama’s. Well, Obama has…
UN: Don’t Eat Hamburgers, They Hurt The Environment By Michael Bastasch The head of the United Nations Environmental Program wants people to know about things they can do every day to help push the international body’s environmental agenda. So what’s one way you can do your part for the environment? Why, not eating hamburgers, of…
Progressive discipline policies aimed at eliminating ‘white privilege’ are failing public schools by Alison Basley Public schools in struggling districts are giving millions to the consulting firm known as Pacific Education Group in return for “restorative justice” training for school staff. This new discipline program for troubled students is part of the Obama Administration’s federal guidelines…
By: Laura Meyers In the wake of California’s four-year long drought, the Placer County Water Agency has created two new smart phone apps to help citizens track and report wasteful water usage. One is a shower timer, which converts time in shower to gallons of water used. The second allows people to tattletale on their neighboring, evil…