By Peter Fricke Baltimore may soon become one of the first East Coast cities to adopt the West Coast trend of banning plastic shopping bags. The City Council voted to approve the ban Monday night, the Baltimore Sun reports, at a hearing during which it was supposed to be considering a 5-cent fee, which has…
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A woman was kicked out of a restaurant in Spring, Texas after she changed her baby’s dirty diaper at her table. Miranda Sowers was eating with her family at Brother’s Pizza when she went to the bathroom to change her baby’s diaper. Realizing there was no changing table, Sowers returned to the table and began…
by Ryan Lazarus VICE News has launched an incredible series about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Filmmaker Medyan Dairieh takes us behind the scenes of ISIS controlled territory. We get a chance to see how the former al Qaida affiliated group operates across a variety of fronts. Merciless death and destruction is…
By Blake Neff The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) voted Thursday to significantly expand the autonomy of its most powerful conferences, a move that could pave the way for players to be paid directly for the first time. Under a series of rules passed 16-2 by the NCAA’s Division 1 board of directors, the so-called…
By Michael Bastasch The United States recently announced it was spending nearly $500 million to modernize Ghana’s electrical grid and reform the country’s struggling energy sector, adding to the billions already pledged by President Obama to increase electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa. Obama’s Power Africa program has already pledged $7 billion in government funds and leveraged loans…
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Insurgent Republican Arturo Alas joins the Freedom Report podcast to discuss his campaign for liberty in California’s 32nd district. As an entrepreneur and a staunch believer in free markets, Alas campaigned heavily to keep the famous Sriracha factory in business, despite attacks from big government regulators who were trying to force the factory out of…
The Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York will issue you a fine of $500 if you leave them a negative review. That’s $500 per negative review, mind you, not $500 total. From the hotel website: Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our inn, your friends and families…
By Ryan Lazarus A restaurant’s controversial discount policy has some concerned that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is being violated. The landmark legislation made it illegal for businesses to discriminate based on race and religion, among other things. Mary’s Gourmet Diner, in Winston-Salem North Carolina, applies 15% discounts to certain patrons tabs for “praying…