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Everyone knows that social media is full of hate.  There's something about the safety of a screen that gives people enough sense of isolation that they feel completely comfortable being total jerks to complete strangers. This has caused researchers at...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned a lower court’s ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. “Although today’s decision is not a final determination on...

Civil forfeiture is an underhanded way the government can take citizens’ money without even charging them with a crime. And it’s even worse than federal agencies seizing small business owners’ bank accounts… police officers can also take cash...

Want to know what totalitarianism looks like? Twenty year old Isabella Chow is a student senator at UC Berkeley who was elected with support from students who (presumably) voted for her because they liked her leadership and ideas.  Recently, she...

A Cleveland, Ohio hospital fired a doctor who made anti-Semitic social media posts for years. Lara Kollab, 27, was a supervised resident at Cleveland Clinic.  Though they did not say she was fired specifically for her posts, they did issue this...

Now that this has happened twice, can we please quit the insanity? A transgender wrestler -- in this case, it means she is a girl pretending to be a boy -- won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division in wrestling once again. Scratch...

If you were planning on attending the January 19 Women's March in Humboldt County, California, then you'll need to rethink your schedule.  Organizers recently canceled the event, because the response had been "too white." In a Facebook statement, the...

Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a disturbing piece in the New York Times which needs to be discussed, refuted, and thrown into the cultural waste bin of terrible ideas.  Purporting to be a look at how “banks unwittingly finance mass shootings,” the piece...

Here's something extra horrifying.  Alice Walker is the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist who wrote "The Color Purple." When the New York Times interviewed her for their Sunday Book Review, however, things went bad fast.  RealClearPolitics reports that...

NBC had a hard hitting report on just how terrible Donald Trump is as President of the United States.  It began: On Christmas Day, President Donald Trump took part in a long-running practice of presidents who called troops stationed around the country...