Unsafe Liquid Plumr Bottles Recalled The Clorox Company has recalled 4.5 bottles of Liquid Plumr whose caps are not child-proof. The recall was announced July 14. The bottles are easily opened by children, who would then have access to the highly caustic and toxic substance. Included in the recall are the products Liquid Plumr Pro-Strength
Tesla Admits Autopilot Involved in Montana Crash Automaker Tesla has confirmed that its autopilot function was activated when a Tesla car crashed earlier this week. The Model X car collided with a guardrail near Whitehall, Montana. Neither the driver nor passenger was hurt. According to the Detroit Free Press, Trooper Jade Schope said the driver,
A brief obstacle was placed in the way of the security state when a federal judge elected to suppress evidence gained by surveillance technology without a warrant. U.S. District Judge William Pauley ruled in Manhattan on Tuesday that evidence of a defendant’s location by use of a stingray, a device that makes use of a
Tonight Americans will turn on their TV’s, check their Facebook pages, watch YouTube and otherwise plug into the opinion-forming current of mass media. What they will see, hear and read from that mass media, corporate-owned and corporate-controlled, will try to persuade them that they live in a country torn in two by race. A country
The Supreme Court gave a major victory to abortion rights advocates on June 27 when it struck down a Texas law that put restrictions on abortion providers and clinics. The case, Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, was decided by a 5-3 majority. The 2013 Texas law placed two significant restrictions on abortions, the requirements that
Attorneys for the movie theater chain Cinemark want victims of the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting to pay $700 thousand in legal fees following an unsuccessful suit in which the victims sued Cinemark. The 2012 shooting left 12 dead and another 70 injured at the midnight premier of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. The
Universities across America are often seen as a hot bed for progressive and liberal ideas. With an increasing demand on the left for higher minimum wages it appears universities have turned a blind eye on student workers. The irony is universities seem to support liberalism so long as it does not involve increasing student payroll.
Last Thursday the Supreme Court denied a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action policy. The decision was met with relief by colleges and universities across the country with similar programs and hailed in the media as “a major victory” for supporters of affirmative action. What goes unspoken on college campuses and
Two wars are racing toward us. Each will be global in scale. Each will bring unimaginable waves of suffering and destruction down upon the world’s people. One can be seen approaching now in the lightning of the protests in France, the massacre of teachers in Mexico, and the separation of Britain from the European Union.
Trump’s nondisclosure agreements are cause for concern. With the recent firing of his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump returns to the public’s attention the matter of his notorious employee nondisclosure agreements. These agreements, in turn, bring to our attention the profoundly anti-democratic ideas Trump fosters about what the public has a right to know