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School Secretly Monitors Students’ Facebook Pages After Receiving Call from NSA

“People are very good about ‘If you see something, say something”   School officials in Huntsville, Alabama, say a phone call from the National Security Agency led them to create a secret surveillance program to monitor their students’ social media accounts.  According to Superintendent and former U.S. Army colonel Casey Wardynski, the program began 18 months […] Read More →

Doug Giles: 3 Mistakes Hannah Graham Made

 Hannah Graham is straight-A, a second year University of Virginia student who has been missing since September 13th,2014.  Typically, at this stage of the game it isn’t looking good for Hannah. Her parents, as you can imagine, are beyond crushed. As of yesterday, the police have issued a search warrant for Jesse Matthew, who cops […] Read More →

Twitter Parodies, Politicians and Police Raids

 For as long as there has been Twitter, there have been parody accounts. From Representative Paul Ryan to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to the pope, public figures often find themselves the subject of these impersonations. Most have come to accept them as an annoying but inevitable side effect of life in the public eye. And […] Read More →

Hunt for Flight MH370: Sonar Search Reveals Secrets Of Sea Floor

 The hunt for missing Malaysian plane MH370 has revealed unsuspected secrets about the Indian Ocean, including underwater volcanoes and trenches dating back up to 100 million years. High-resolution sonar has found no clear signs of the plane’s wreckage, but instead discovered a wealth of unexpected geological features between Australia and Antarctica, The Sunday Times reported. […] Read More →

Gay or Straight, A Male Is a Male Is a Male

Gay sexual preferences are surprisingly similar to those of straight men.  On the surface, this title may well seem baffling—or brainless. And, of course, marked discrepancies do exist between the sexual arousal cues distinguishing gays from straights. But as I’ll be demonstrating, the major (and little recognized) similarities between them ultimately suggest that a gay’s […] Read More →

Apple Showcases Education Apps ‘Aligned to Common Core Standards’

2+2=5 now streamlined for iPad.  A document posted to the education section of Apple’s website reveals the company’s close ties to the controversial Common Core learning standard.  Entitled “Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Tools for iPad,” the document claims to offer a comprehensive list of “exemplary” apps and iBooks focused on English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science […] Read More →

More than 30 teens escape from detention center

 More than 30 teens escaped from a Nashville youth detention center and 17 were still being sought early Tuesday, a spokesman said. Thirty-two teens — ages 14 to 19 — escaped from Woodland Hills Youth Development Center around 11 p.m. Monday by crawling under a weak spot in a fence that surrounded a yard there, […] Read More →

Australians mourn victims of downed MH17 Malaysian jet

 Australia’s prime minister said Thursday that those responsible for shooting down the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine will face justice, as his nation marked a day of mourning for the 38 Australian citizens and residents who died in the crash. The commemorations were centered on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, capital of Victoria state where 16 […] Read More →