How Our Government Created Ghettos
(NPR)- Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research...
Vince Vaughn Explains Why He Loves Liberty!!!
(The Blaze)- Readers of Playboy may be surprised to find that buried within a recent interview with one of Hollywood’s biggest stars is a fairly...
Rand Paul: The Politicians Are To Blame For Ferguson
(Time)-The failure of the War on Poverty has created a culture of violence and put police in a nearly impossible situation. We are witnessing a...
Eva Moskowitz: Kids Best Friend and The Teachers’ Union’s Worst Nightmare
(The Bullet Wire)- Eva Moskowitz is one of the most important disruptive and entrepreneurial forces in existence in education today. She is literally giving thousands...
Going to Parts Unknown on Election Day
(Global Observations)- Today is another election day and like most election days the outcome, regardless of who wins, will likely do little for the cause...
Rand Paul: Hillary’s ‘War Hawk’ Policies Led to Benghazi Attack, Rise of ISIS
(Breitbart)- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) certainly has a knack for boldness. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, he dubbed U.S. military engagement in Libya “Hillary’s war”...
Pablo Escobar’s Right-Hand Man Explains Why The Drug War Is Unwinnable
(Business Insider)- In a five-part series about lessons learned from the failed war on drugs, Jochen-Martin Gutsch and Juan Moreno of Der Spiegel explore possible...
The War on Drugs Is What Makes Thugs
(The Daily Beast)- Why do blacks vent when a white cop shoots a kid but say little about daily black-on-black murder? Black outrage is selective—but...
The Future of College: A Tech Entrepreneurs Disruptive Dream
This type of open market entrepreneurship is not only the cure for our outrageously expensive but unresponsive education system at every level, but health care too. It's really the cure for most everything...
Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police
(Time)- Anyone who thinks race does not skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention, Sen. Rand...
How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance
(Washington Post)- One hundred years ago this Monday, after German troops marched into Belgium, Britain declared war and scarcely an hour later it sent its...
Millennials’ Political Views Don’t Make Any Sense
(The Atlantic)-Millennial politics is simple, really. Young people support big government, unless it costs any more money. They’re for smaller government, unless budget cuts scratch...
The Misguided Open-Carry Movement
(Reason)- Having the right to do a certain something doesn’t mean that certain something is always the right thing to do. For example: Death-metal bands...
Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.”
(Reason)- Over the weekend, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page sat down for a rare joint public interview with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, in...
The P.C. Guillotine Drops: Sirius-XM fire Opie and Anthony on 4th of July
(Deadline Hollywood)- I listened as the radio team of Opie & Anthony got sacked from WNEW-FM radio in 2002 after they launched a Sex for...
Bear rescued after head gets stuck in cookie jar
RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A frightened bear cub got its head stuck in an oversized cookie jar while rummaging through some trash and had to...
Lost for 60 years, ring turns up in dry Texas lake
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — An 84-year-old Washington state woman will soon hold her 1953 university class ring, lost six decades ago, after it was found...
Black bear euthanized after frequenting area
SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) — A 350-pound black bear found sleeping in a Florida Panhandle tree has been euthanized. The bear had been caught, tagged and...
Good Samaritan rescues man from burning SUV
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (AP) — A Good Samaritan showed “superhuman strength” when he bent the door of a burning sport utility vehicle and rescued another...
GM returns stolen Corvette to owner after 33 years
DETROIT (AP) — George Talley has his car back — 33 years after someone stole it from a Detroit street. General Motors Co. says the...
Groom chases thief who grabbed wedding gifts
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas couple who had just renewed their wedding vows got a rude shock when a man tried to steal wedding...
Police charge Pa. man found dribbling along I-78
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man faces charges after police encountered him dribbling a basketball along Interstate 78 near Bethlehem. The Express-Times of...
Prosthetic leg found on Washington beach returned
KINGSTON, Wash. (AP) — A woman who found a prosthetic leg on a Washington state beach has returned it to its owner. Hannah Listle posted...
Black bear returns 3 times to Florida location
SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) — Officials are hoping the third time is a charm for a 350-pound black bear found sleeping in a Florida Panhandle tree....
Diamond dog coughs up missing wedding ring
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who lost her diamond wedding ring five years ago had given up all hope of finding it...
Kitten travels 30 miles in engine compartment
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area man had an unexpected passenger in his car during the 30-mile trip to his parents’ house:...
Utah man sent to jail for fight over church seats
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A 52-year-old man accused of punching another man and hitting him with his car in a dispute over pew space in...
Utah man to jail after fight over pew space
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A 52-year-old man accused of punching another man and hitting him with his car in a dispute over pew space in...
United plane’s evacuation slide deploys mid-flight
CHICAGO (AP) — Passengers say a United Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Kansas after an evacuation slide deployed during the flight, filling part...
For sale: Small South Dakota town, bar included
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A businessman is selling his small, southeastern South Dakota town for $400,000. Lance Benson is the sole owner of Swett,...
Hypermilitarized police departments are more dangerous than whatever they fight
(National Review)- Nestled awkwardly among the usual guff, the outrage website Salon this week took a welcome flyer and accorded space to something genuinely alarming. “A...
Indonesia thinks Hitler is cool because they are ignorant about his atrocities
Glad we don't think mass murder's are cool in America...
We Asked Russell Brand’s Revolutionaries About Their Ideal ‘Alternative’ Britain
(Vice)- Back in the day, Russell Brand was just the guy who spent his time presenting Big Brother’s Big Mouth and hamming it up alongside Gemma Arterton in St....
Wal-Mart Exec hilariously eviscerates NY Times Article
(Business Insider)- A Wal-Mart spokesman attacked New York Times columnist Timothy Egan in a disparaging and sarcasm-laced blog post last week for what he calls...
2 men trying for eagle photo rescued from mudflats
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two men who got stuck waist-deep in mudflats off Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula as they attempted to photograph an eagle were rescued...
Black bear digs through insulation to get honey
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A black bear tore up floorboards at a Juneau, Alaska, home and dug through insulation to get at some honey. The...
New NYC museum explores death, all things morbid
NEW YORK (AP) — A new museum opening in New York City this weekend promises a fascinating journey into the dark side. The Morbid Anatomy...
Slimmed-down Oregon police horse collars suspect
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon horse that had to lose 200 pounds before it could join the Portland Police Bureau’s Mounted Patrol Unit has...
Bears hunting for honey in eastern Kentucky
EOLIA, Ky. (AP) — Black bears in eastern Kentucky are taking a sweet, sticky cue from Winnie the Pooh in the search for honey. WYMT-TV...
New Zealand schoolboy wins right to keep hair long
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand schoolboy has won a court battle to keep his hair long. Sixteen-year-old Lucan Battison was last month...
Man accused of using accordion to smuggle meth
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A Mexican man is in custody for allegedly trying to smuggle 4 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine into Arizona in an accordion....
ER patient found with $300 in medical supplies
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 60-year-old man treated in the emergency room of Alaska’s Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is suspected of trying to walk out with...
Football field accidentally built on man’s land
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — A Maine town will spend $27,500 to correct mistakes it made that led to a youth football field being accidentally built...
Alaska bear crashes boy’s birthday bash
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Wildlife officials in Alaska’s capital suspect a black bear might have literally crashed a child’s birthday party before he was shot...
Former Chick-fil-A employee accused of robbing KFC
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A man who worked at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in northern South Carolina has been accused of robbing a KFC. Fifty-year-old...
Bronx mystery creature is member of weasel family
NEW YORK (AP) — A mysterious long-haired critter that’s been sighted on the streets of a Bronx neighborhood for several months has a name. It’s...
Carjackers fail in the clutch, can’t drive stick
SEATTLE (AP) — An attempted carjacking in Seattle failed when three carjackers found they were in a vehicle with a manual transmission and none of...
Massachusetts college selling campus house for $1
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — Smith College is selling an on-campus house for $1 — but there is a catch. The buyer must pay to have...
2 men throw out $1M ticket, sue New Jersey Lottery
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million. Salvatore...
Former Chik-fil-A employee accused of robbing KFC
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A man who worked at a Chik-fil-A restaurant in northern South Carolina has been accused of robbing a KFC. Fifty-year-old...