Human rights
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According to a new report form the ACLU of Ohio, a majority of jails in Ohio charge prisoners “pay to stay” fees that can actually reach thousands of dollars. In some jails, the daily fee can even go as high as $66.09 a day. These fees are levied against the poor, despite a law supposedly mandating […]
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UK police are now asking the government to allow them to spy on the Internet search history of just about anyone in the country. Richard Berry, the National Police Chief’s Council spokesman, said, “We want to police by consent, and we want to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place. But we need to balance this with […]
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Proponents of the #MillionStudentMarch claim to rally against America’s so-called “education crisis.” As stated in the movement’s website, they demand a tuition-free public college system, the cancellation of all student debt and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers. “The United States is the richest country in the world, yet students have to take on […]
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Actor Kurt Russell stood up in arms for the Second Amendment during an interview Friday on The View. “I think there’s a very strong reason the Founding Fathers had for our Second Amendment,” Russell said. Russell recently made newspaper headlines for arguing the belief that gun control laws can stymie terrorist attacks is “absolutely insane.” […]
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Arson, destruction and violence abound as migrants pour into once idyllic Swedish village of Tärnsjö
Tärnsjö, a once tranquil Swedish village 150km north of Stockholm, has now become a hotbed of resentment following the arrival of 20 refugee families. The tension between refugees and residents has gotten so bad that the police have even begun escorting migrant children as young as five to school to protect them from alleged abuse. Even […] -
“Really? So if you were in a restaurant and a crazy gunman came in, you wouldn’t want to have a gun? You’d rather just be shot?” This was the response Bill Maher gave California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), after the latter’s statements in support of gun control in the wake of the recent Paris […]
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The next time you eat a candy bar or sip on a mug of hot chocolate, think of the children who work on cocoa farms in West Africa. The famous chocolate makers Hershey, Nestlé and Mars knowingly source cocoa from farms in West Africa that use child labor – including children who are outright slaves […]
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“This is a moment to seize here in America, and today, I am here to say in Connecticut, we are seizing this moment,” said governor Daniel Malloy of Connecticut. At a news conference held on Thursday, December 10, the Democratic governor announced that he will sign an executive order – the first in the nation […]
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According to Webster’s, a crybully is a crybaby who is also an intolerant, racist bully. Well, the University of Missouri has been taken over by a bunch of crybully students, who are tearfully demanding “safe spaces” to protect themselves from such things as “mean words.”[1] It all started with the formation of a student activist […]
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Under new legislation already passed by the House, pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices may soon be as loosely regulated as the 80,000+ harmful chemicals allowed in everyday products, most of which are blamed for a majority of America’s chronic illnesses. H.R.6, or the 21st Century Cures Act, essentially weakens the already weak standards for the […]
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