Oakland Cops Point Guns at Sleeping One-Year-Old in Misdemeanor Warrant Search
…And these are the people that gun control advocates trust with weapons? … Read More
View ArticleThe Boys At The Back
Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college. Why? A study coming out this week in The...
View ArticleThe Mad Men of Silicon Valley
"We're not that big on history," says veteran technology journalist Michael Malone near the close of "Silicon Valley," a documentary premiering tonight on PBS as part of the "American Experience"...
View Article10 things the media don’t want to discover about Sandy Hook
People want to know more about the Sandy Hook massacre, but the elite networks have no intention of answering the most obvious questions. … Read More
View ArticleNugent tells Voice of America reporter: ‘I’m the f—ing voice of America!’
As promised, rocker and gun enthusiast Ted Nugent was on his best behavior at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, but he let loose with some colorful criticism afterward. It...
View ArticleUnions Look to Stalk Their Way into Our Hearts. Don’t Try to Stop Them,...
Grover Norquist and Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform are using Valentine’s Day to remind us that unions are powerful enough to get themselves exemptions from laws that protect citizens from...
View ArticleJesse Silverberg: Mosh Pits, Heavy Metal and Physics
We don't know much about the collective behavior that emerges from panicked crowds -- it's not exactly ethical to start a riot for the sake of science. So this group of researchers turned to the next...
View ArticleLarge study links excessive TV in childhood to criminal behavior in adults
Time spent in front of the television during childhood and early adolescence is linked to criminal behavior in adulthood, according to research published online in Pediatrics. “Antisocial behaviour is...
View ArticleU.S. ‘Pirate’ Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty
February 2011 U.S. authorities seized several domains belonging to major sports streaming sites. One of the affected domains was Channelsurfing.net, a website where links to external sports streams...
View ArticleMoscow Mayor says no to more mosques in the city
“It has turned out that the praying Muslims are not atall Russian citizens and they are not Moscow residents. They arelabor migrants. There are only 10 percent of Moscow residents amongthem and...
View ArticleTwo US Navy sailors convicted of rape that shocked Japan
The two Americans plead guilty to the charges, admitting toraping the young Japanese woman and robbing her of about $76 inOctober 2012. The indictment claims that the two sailors“attacked the woman as...
View ArticleThe 6 most appalling statements of America’s biggest CEOs
The sh*t CEOs say! When the chiefs of giant corporations are not blaming others for their mismanagement and unscrupulous behavior, they’re explaining why their distorted worldviews are best for the 99...
View ArticleHolder: Banks too big to prosecute
Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that banks are simply too big to prosecute.The Justice Department has not brought a single criminal conviction...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Virtuous
The first law of thermodynamics says that energy can't be created and can't be destroyed -- it can only be changed from one form into another. The same holds true of the puritanical impulse....
View ArticleSteve Chapman on the Tyranny of the Virtuous
Most people don't think it's their place to tell others what sort of sexual behavior is acceptable. With few exceptions, it has become a private matter of individual preference. Laws against sodomy...
View ArticleDoes divorce really traumatize children?
Many of the 1.5 million children in the U.S. whose parents divorce every year feel as if their worlds are falling apart. Divorcing parents are usually very concerned about the welfare of their...
View ArticleNATO cyberwar directive declares hackers military targets
The rule book published this week, The Tallinn Manual onInternational Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, was curated byNATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence and callsupon two dozen...
View ArticleMusic piracy surprisingly good for business, study claims
The results have been published in a paper entitled ‘DigitalMusic Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data’,which can be found online. The study took a sample of some16,000 Europeans...
View ArticleGreg Beato on Mayor Bloomberg and Prohibition Lite
By making a legal but unhealthy product increasingly unaffordable, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his confederates have effectively nudged thousands of smokers and shopkeepers into criminal...
View ArticleDoes studying science make you a better person?
Want to be a better person? Spend more time thinking about science. That’s the implication of newly published research, which finds people who study science — or who are even momentarily exposed to the...
View Article60 Completely Outrageous Ways The U.S. Government Is Wasting Money
Despite the sequester and all of the talk about “deep cutbacks”, the federal government continues to waste money in some of the most outrageous ways imaginable. … Read More
View ArticleRepublican says marriage is like selling alcohol and cutting hair
Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa said Tuesday that same sex marriage should be prohibited because the government had the right to regulate human behavior. “The state’s require a marriage license,”...
View ArticleThe best and worst apologies of the week
It has been one sorry excuse for a week. Each new day has brought with it a fresh batch of bad behavior and questionable decision making, and with it, apologies of highly variable quality. If you're...
View ArticleStudy: Facebook is being used to spread racism
Is Facebook a particularly powerful medium to spread racist messages? That’s the disturbing implication of a newly published study. “Frequent users are particularly disposed to be influenced by...
View ArticleSex-crazed kids? Hardly
Kids these days, with their "sex" bracelets and rainbow parties! Back in my middle school days, we went on chaperoned dates to watch movies like "Space Jam" and avoid touching at all costs. Now...
View ArticleTyranny In The Maryland House Of Delegates
Maryland, like other parts of the country are being swallowed up by Socialists and Communists. It’s good to see that Mr. Smigiel has a spine and is willing to expose the corruption taking place there...
View ArticleEnvironmentalist jailed over blog post
Daniel McGowan had been serving the last chunk of a 7 year incarceration at a half-way house in Brooklyn, New York, but earlier this week was taken into custody and transferred to the Metropolitan...
View ArticleYobbish behavior getting worse say 80% of Britons.
More than 80% of the British public thinks that anti-social behavior is on the rise across the UK, it was reported in the British media.In the official survey, published by the Office for National...
View ArticleUK’s top financial school slams secret BBC trip to N. Korea
To access the secretive North Korea, the BBC forged student credentials for three of its journalists, the Commentator has discovered from an email from a director at the LSE director’s to the...
View ArticleBBC’s secret mission to North Korea draws fire from LSE
To access the secretive North Korea, the BBC forged student credentials for three of its journalists, the Commentator has discovered from an email from a director at the LSE director’s to the...
View ArticleNorth Korea open to talks with U.S.?
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it was open to dialog with the US but that it would not return to the "humiliating negotiating table" until it has boosted its nuclear arsenal enough to fend off...
View ArticleScientific Management Redux: The Difference Is in the Data
Companies are increasingly using data-driven testing and measurement in the hiring and evaluation of employees — a field called work force science. The enthusiasm for worker measurement and testing is...
View Article‘I was firing into Hell’: Belgorod shooter kills 6 over ‘insults’
Pomazun, 31, went on a shooting rampage on Monday at a local gun store and killed six people – four men aged between 28 and 45 and the 14-year-old girl. Another girl, 16, died later in hospital. He...
View ArticleWikipedia’s shame
Is Wikipedia sexist? Or is it merely an unreliable mess of angry, axe-wielding psychos engaged in agenda-driven editing? Or is it something much more complicated than that?Last Wednesday, novelist...
View ArticlePirate Party makes history in Iceland elections
During the country's recent national elections, which saw center-right parties returning to power, three Pirate Party representatives squeaked by the mandatory five per cent vote and will be forming...
View ArticleStudy finds women perceive men with heavy stubble most attractive
Gentlemen, put down the razors. Put them down and back away. For once, there is good news about facial hair. A study in the May edition of the journal Evolution & Human Behavior finds that, among a...
View ArticleHard cell: UK prisoners must work for perks
The current scheme in prisons in England and Wales allows inmates to get privileges like a TV in their cell, gym access and to be able to wear their own clothes.But the Incentives and Earned...
View ArticleNew law will ban protesters from riding mass transit in California
Starting next week, law enforcement officers policing the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland and other cities can issue bus and subway bans for unruly...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Amanda Bynes?
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View ArticleGovt wants all cars to track driver behavior, seatbelt usage and more
A newly proposed law could make "black box" recording devices mandatory for most new vehicles, as the auto industry and big government work hand in hand to provide "driver safety". … Read More
View Article‘World order unjust and immoral!’ Ecuador’s Correa rips into Snowden coverage
“They’ve managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the ‘wicked’ countries that ‘support’ him, making us forget the terrible things against the US people and the whole world that he denounced,”...
View ArticlePutin signs law banning gay couples from adopting
The latest act aims to protect children from “dictated non-traditional sexual behavior” and protect them from “distress”, which psychologists say is experienced by children raised by same sex parents...
View ArticleGay rights in Russia: Facts and Myths
Is being gay a crime in Russia? No. Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993. In the Soviet Union, “male buggery” had been a punishable offense since 1934, with several hundred people charged with it...
View ArticleSun dial-down: Looming weak solar max may herald frosty times
Solar activity can be easily monitored by the number of sun spots. Regular recordings of the phenomenon have been available since the middle of the 18th century, with the star’s activity reaching...
View ArticlePirate Party reports Swedish IT minister to police for copyright violations
The party has been following Hatt’s account on Instagram, where it discovered that the politician is anything but innocent when it comes to respecting the legislation which she claims to so strongly...
View Article‘Zombie pigeon epidemic’ in Moscow sparks fears of transmission to humans
On Wednesday the Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Service reported that the birds’ abnormal behavior was caused by the so-called “Newcastle disease,” which can spread to humans....
View ArticleThe GDP distractor
Albert Einstein, a man who knew a thing or two about celestial mechanics, supposedly once called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe." While the remark was likely meant to be...
View ArticleUS soldier gets life in prison without release for killing 16 Afghans
One day after Staff Sgt. Robert Bales apologized in court for the 2012 rampage, a jury said Friday that he’ll have to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the option of ever petition for his...
View ArticleOpen-sea US Navy testing will kill hundreds of dolphins and whales
Computer models showed that the Navy will likely kill 186 whales and dolphins off the East Coast and 155 near the coast of Hawaii and Southern California – its main operation areas – between 2014 and...
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Spooking the spooks: US surveillance system to muzzle rogue agents and leakers
The computerized system would provide continuous monitoring of financial and other databases of government employees, according to officials and documents reviewed by the AP. Speaking before Congress...
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