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Law and Government
As filing deadline looms, IRS ignoring 60% of taxpayer calls
You have reached the Internal Revenue Service. Your call is not important to us. Do not stay on the line.…
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Media
Minute-by-minute account of Germanwings flight 4U9525
The French publication Paris Match is in receipt of a cell phone video recorded by one of the passengers on…
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Science and Technology
Woman trolls Google Street View camera by flashing her breasts
People from Down Under seem to have a thing for Google Maps Street View camera. In April 2013, a young…
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Politics
Disconnect: Apple CEO slams Indiana RFRA but sells iPhones in Islamic nation that executes gays
Apple CEO Tim Cook is one of the most vocal critics of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which, as Ramesh Ponnuru writes today,…
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Religion
Vengeful lawsuit against WA state florist who refused gay couple could leave her penniless (Video)
Talk about your pound of flesh! The owner of a Richland, Wash., flower shop who is being sued for refusing service to a same-sex…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney promotes anti-Semitic ‘comedian’ (Video)
Remember Cynthia McKinney, the far-left former congresswoman from Georgia who peddled conspiracy theories in the wake of 9/11 (viz., the Jews done…
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Law and Government
NYC councilwoman espouses benefits of assigning public housing by ethnicity
Assigning public housing by race? What could be more inimical to the cause of ethnic diversity, much-beloved of liberals? What could…
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Politics
Picture of the Day: Obama was for RFRA before he was against it (Video)
How intense is opposition to Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), widely misdescribed as anti-gay? So intense that former…
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Education
Campus Christian group deactivated at CA college, but wait till you hear why (Video)
Think if it as a variation on the Groucho Marx quip about not wanting to belong to a club that…
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Social Issues
Black Indiana legislator accuses white colleague’s 18-month-old son of racism (Video)
Call it another dog whistle moment. A black member of the Indiana state legislature recently digressed from her prepared remarks…
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Email Featured
Man beaten by strangers for not being outraged over death of Michael Brown (Video)
A white passenger riding a St. Louis light rail train late Monday was physically assaulted by several black men after he refused to comment on the death…
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Politics
‘Free the nipple’ campaign goes viral after Icelandic teen is trolled
With apologies, Free the Nipple Day has come and gone (it was March 26) and we at LU neglected to…
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Law and Government
Vengeful husband who suspected wife of cheating seals her vagina shut with Super Glue
When Super Glue was first marketed in the 1960s, its makers advertised that “you can do some crazy things with it.”…
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Social Issues
Experts: Blame 9/11 and reinforced cockpit doors for Germanwings disaster (Video)
The latest chapter in the tragic saga of the Germangwings airliner that went down in the French Alps has been written. The…
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Law and Government
Marie Harf takes to the airwaves to accuse critics of her ‘jobs for jihadists’ comment of sexism (Video)
There’s an old adage, often ascribed to Abraham Lincoln, that holds it’s “better to remain silent and be thought a…
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Law and Government
Video: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s very bad parking misadventure
Parking a car is not one of the qualifications for a job in the U.S. Congress. For that, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton…
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Unyielding
BREAKING: Co-pilot of downed Germanwings airliner ‘wanted to destroy plane’
The tragic story of the Germanwings airliner that went down in a desolate area in the French Alps on Tuesday has…
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Email Featured
If administration had it to do over, they’d make same trade for Bergdahl (Video)
As J.E. wrote yesterday, things are looking grim for former Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has been charged with crimes that could…
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Media
Did New Yorker’s John Cassidy just call Ted Cruz ‘uppity’?
Yes, but you’d never know it by linking to Cassidy’s article today because the adjective, which appeared in the second paragraph,…
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Foreign Affairs
Tweet of the Day: Obama warns of threat of a nuclear Iran to the U.S. and (gulp!) Israel
Maybe the explanation for this seeming blunt self-contradiction is that Barack Obama has “evolved” on the prospect of a nuclear Iran…
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Politics
FEMA will punish global warming deniers by withholding disaster-preparedness funds
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change,” writes Katherine Bagley of InsideClimate News…
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Law and Government
Tweet of the Day: Tommy Vietor knows why Ted Cruz is running for president
But does he know why the caged bird sings? Tommy Vietor, should the name escape you, was spokesman for the…
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Education
Fans at NCAA game greet spectator Barack Obama with ‘4 more years’ chant (Video)
An item at the Blaze notes that Barack Obama was greeted by a chant Saturday by the crowd at an NCAA basketball…
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Quick Takes
Two men OD after mistaking white heroin for cocaine
Life imitates art, only with a more deadly outcome. In a real-life replay of the scene from “Pulp Fiction” in…
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Religion
Facebook Post of the Day: Ben & Jerry’s in Israel rolls out ‘charoset’ ice cream flavor for Passover
Why is this ice cream flavor different from all other ice cream flavors? For those unacquainted with the Jewish festival of…
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Email Featured
No, Obama, Iran’s — and U.S.’s — ‘best opportunity in decades’ was 2009 Green revolt, which you sat out
On Thursday, Barack Obama delivered his annual Nowruz message to the people of Iran. The name of the holiday, which marks the…
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Science and Technology
From the horse’s mouth: Woman raised by lesbian couple says gay marriage hurts kids
Who you gonna believe? Your lyin’ eyes or “Heather Has Two Mommies”? A woman raised by her mother and her mother’s lesbian…
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Quick Takes
Long-awaited answer on whether toilet paper should be hung ‘over’ or ‘under’
It’s a debate that has divided households for centuries. It is so great a bone of contention that it has…
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Politics
Video: Welcome to Hillary’s Fun Camp
In a paid speech yesterday, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and still-unannounced 2016 presidential candidate addressed the deficit. No,…
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Media
Transgender activist launches #WeJustNeedtoPee ‘bathroom selfie’ campaign
Ordinarily, a movement that uses the hashtag #WeJustNeedtoPee (alternates include #occupotty) would be filed under TMI (too much information). But Michael Hughes, of Rochester, Minn.,…
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Politics
Dick Durbin’s office once called Bush judicial nominee ‘dangerous’ because ‘he is Latino’
Some day, all of the politicians in Washington who were born before Al Gore invented the internet will have died. No…
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