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Developers Forced To Build Mall Around Elderly Woman's Home - Now Known As...

It seems like a familiar story: An elderly homeowner defiantly stands up to money-hungry developers who want to tear down her sweet little house.But that’s not exactly what happened with octogenarian...

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Anonymous donor pays off $360,000 mortgage for man who lost wife and home in...

An anonymous investor has paid off the $360,000 mortgage of a man who lost his house and wife in Snohomish County’s Highway 530 landslide.The investor was moved to act after seeing a news account about...

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Farmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Copyright: Never a Side Effect, But...

Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea...

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US vets come to Vietnam to confront past, and find a home

When Richard Parker left Vietnam in 1970, he planned to leave his memories of napalm attacks firmly in the past. Instead, as time marched on, they haunted him."We were the bad guys," Parker, now 65,...

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Why You Shouldn’t Be A Part Of The 90% Of Americans Who Still Use Microwaves

They’re fast, convenient, and easy to use. Manufacturers even produce packaged foods specifically for their use. What I’m referring to are of course, microwave ovens, the household appliance that is...

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As California drought worsens critics take aim at Nestlé bottled water plant...

As Californians face deepening cuts in water usage because of the drought, critics are raising concerns about tens of millions of gallons of Sacramento municipal water being tapped by a local plant...

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4th Grader Rocks Common Core Education By Asking School Board One Question

The funny thing about testing in school is that all it truly does is show the understanding an individual has on a certain subject at a given time. Their understanding can change drastically in...

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Father's Very Honest Obituary For His Daughter Has Gone Viral For Mentioning...

After Molly Parks died of a heroin overdose, her father didn't want to hide that fact in her obituary.Molly Parks died on April 16, 2015 at the age of 24 from an overdose of heroin.  She had struggled...

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Frustrated Professor Flunks An Entire Class For Being Jerks

Fed up with a class full of students he called "a disgrace to the school," Texas A&M Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz finally did what many teachers before him have threatened: he flunked the...

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New Kinloch mayor blocked by police from entering city hall: "...she was also...

 Betty McCray was not only prevented from entering city hall, she was also told she’d been impeached before she got a chance to start.McCray ran for mayor in the April 7 election and won.“I won. The...

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BALTIMORE RIOTER SLAPPED BY MOM ON NEWS

A mother has been praised for disciplining her son for taking part in the violence in Baltimore that erupted on Monday.The woman was caught on camera recognising her son, even though he was wearing a...

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Oklahoma lawmaker threatens to set himself on fire over abortion issue

During a discussion of a recent Oklahoma senate bill linked to pay raises for judicial personnel, a representative became so upset he threatened the possibility of setting himself on fire in...

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Idaho City Tells Pastors “Do Gay Marriages” or Face Jail Time

In yet another battle for religious freedom in this country, a city in Idaho is acting far more like it is from North Korea or the old Soviet Union.  The Washington Times reports:Coeur d‘Alene, Idaho,...

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“We limit the president to two terms. It’s about time we limit the terms of...

Rand Paul took the stage in Louisville this month for his presidential campaign kickoff and delivered a thunderous pronouncement to cheering supporters. “We limit the president to two terms. It’s about...

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Over the past four years, more than 100 people in Baltimore have won court...

The city has paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects. One hidden cost: The perception that officers are violent can poison the...

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Mother arrested for leaving sickening n--word post-it notes on her...

 A mother has been arrested for referring to her African-American neighbors as 'apes' during a dispute over a parking space.Eva Chapin, 34, from West Linn, Oregon, was booked into jail after she left a...

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America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776

The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its BirthYear-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she...

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If Obama Was a Baker THIS Is What It Would Look Like…

Western Journalism reports:Is America really the “land of the free?” We may have been initially founded and constructed as such; but each year, the land of the free becomes increasingly the land of the...

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A single mom was fired before she could even start her new daycare job after...

The ‘Moron of the Day’ award goes to a woman in Texas.Apparently this woman got a brand new job working at a daycare.  Good news right?Not so fast. The problem? She posted on Facebook that she hates...

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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour...

 Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.Because I...

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