Authorities believe a malfunctioning hotplate left on to keep food warm over the Jewish Sabbath sparked the fire that killed seven children in a Brooklyn house early Saturday morning. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the victims were 5 to 15. He said a woman and a teenager, 14, survived after jumping from the second floor. […] Continue reading →
Legal concealed carry “more pro-rape than anti-rape,” claims anti-gun media. A leftist news outlet claims that Second Amendment activists are supporting rape by advocating concealed carry on college campuses. On Tuesday, Raw Story said the push to legalize campus carry by pro-gun activists is “sheer assh*lery on many levels” and is also a “subtle form […] Continue reading →
Christine Rousselle, American millennials (anyone born after 1980) score slightly below average in literacy and well below average in math compared to their international peers. In a test given in 23 countries to people aged 16 to 65 that assessed adult skill levels, American millennials finished last in math and ahead of only three countries […] Continue reading →
LAS VEGAS – A 44-year-old woman who was teaching her teenage daughter to drive has died after being shot in the head in an apparent road-rage attack outside her Las Vegas home. Tammy Meyers died after being taken off life support Saturday night at University Medical Center, family members said at a news conference. Police […] Continue reading →
A central Massachusetts toddler died over the weekend after suffocating while undergoing a home treatment for head lice involving mayonnaise and a plastic bag, police said on Thursday. Police in Springfield, about 90 miles west of Boston, responded to the 18-month-old girl’s home at about 3 p.m. on Saturday after receiving a 911 call that […] Continue reading →
Matt Vespa, A nauseating State of the Union address from Barack Obama has come and gone, and a triumphant Obama (yeah, I don’t why he feels that why either) said that the country has turned the page: Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since […] Continue reading → B. Christopher Agee, In an administration defined by scandal, none have dogged Barack Obama longer or more persistently than the secrecy surrounding his past. While the left tries to discount those who question his life story with insulting pejorative, there has been little legitimate response to the genuine concerns of so-called “birthers.” In a recent […] Continue reading → The third issue of “Trigger” magazine, a fledgling editorial product of “Guns & Ammo” features a story on John Hinson, a Civil-War-era vigilante in Tennessee who, the story relates, meticulously assassinated Union Army officers after two of his own sons had been killed and beheaded. The piece is written with unabashed admiration for Hinson’s arbitrary […] Continue reading →
The state of Michigan took a political and cultural leap yesterday as it passed legislation that requires drug-testing of adult welfare participants. The testing would occur only for adults suspected of drug use. Good for them …we need every other state to do the same. House Bill 4118 and Senate Bill 275 combine to become a […] Continue reading → You know you’re full. Close to bursting, actually. You never would have piled your plate like that on a regular day, and you certainly wouldn’t finish it off. But it’s the holidays, and it would be rude not to try every dish, and it all tastes so good, and some of it is healthful, and […] Continue reading → President Barack Obama’s announcement of sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration system is likely to lead to a battle over their legality. Is he on solid legal ground? For months the White House and Obama’s supporters have insisted that he has the authority to direct immigration authorities to exercise discretion in deciding which immigrants in […] Continue reading → Thai police said on Monday two Americans suspected of trying to send infant and adult body parts in parcels to the United States had fled the country. A baby’s head, a baby’s foot sliced into three parts, a heart and a “sheet of skin” with tattoo markings were found in parcels on Saturday after staff […] Continue reading → The body parts of several babies have been found in a parcel destined for the United States, Thai police said Sunday. A baby’s head, several feet and “sheets of skin” — including one taken from an adult and bearing a large tattoo — were discovered Saturday after staff at a Bangkok parcel company scanned the […] Continue reading → Two people have been charged with unlawful imprisonment after a 19-year-old mentally challenged Michigan man was found locked in a cage in a rural Michigan home, authorities said on Monday. A sheriff’s deputy responding to a civil disturbance on Oct. 20 was directed to a bedroom where he found the man in a caged bed […] Continue reading → WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - At least two Colorado adults have died from complications from what may be enterovirus-68, the same strain that has afflicted hundreds, mostly children, across the country. Dr. Phil Emrie, a critical care pulmonologist at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, says he treated adult patients who suffered from conditions similar to the virus. […] Continue reading → Nearly twice as many U.S. households are smoke-free compared to 20 years ago, reflecting an increased awareness of the health hazards from secondhand smoke, but too many people still are exposed, according to a federal study released Thursday. In the early 1990s, 43 percent of U.S. homes were smoke-free, a figure that rose to 83 […] Continue reading →