Fort Smith, Arkansas is a town of about 88 thousand that was made famous by the movie “Footloose” for their No Dancing on Sundays policy. Just recently, they repealed that law after over 50 years of it being on the books.
The ordinance, passed in 1953, was known by the locals as the “Footloose ordinance” since it was the basis for the 1984 Kevin Bacon film.
Prohibiting dancing on…
Oliver Cameron was born in the United Kingdom with a large benign tumor on his heart. The tumor, called a cardiac fibroma, “occurs primarily in infants and children, with no numerical disparity by sex,” according to medical reports.
“They couldn’t treat the tumor in the U.K. because they didn’t have any doctors with the right expertise,” his mother, Lydia, told Live Action. “They said our only…
A family in Mount Dora, Florida sued their city for fining them $10,000 for painting a mural of Van Gogh’s famous "A Starry Night" on their house so their autistic son could always find his way home. After a year-long court battle, the family won and the city had to pay them $15,000.
The Nemhauser family decided to paint their house like Van Gogh’s famous "A Starry Night" because they want …
The July 30th edition of TIME magazine will feature a photoshopped picture of President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin fused as one person.
The cover's title? “The Summit Crisis.”
TIME’s new cover: Trump wanted a summit with Putin. He got way more than he bargained for https://t.co/sUu9gGKmmP pic.twitter.com/qq6iOjlis1
— TIME (@TIME) July 19, 2018
The Time cover is meant to be…
Israel's parliament has passed a law called The Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People, officially making Israel the only self-defined Jewish nation state in the world.
"A hundred and twenty-two years after [the founder of modern Zionism Theodore] Herzl made his vision known, with this law we determined the founding principle of our existence," Benjamin Netanyahu said of the…
Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez, from Dallas, Texas, was on vacation in Key West and thought she would pick up some shells as gifts.
Now, she's going to jail for 15 days for it.
Fiscal-Gonzalez pleaded guilty in the Monroe County Courthouse this week to picking up 40 Queen Conch shells, the Miami Herald reports. What she didn’t know is that it is illegal to collect these shells from any Floridian shores…
Thanks to the tireless work of passionate activists with nothing better to do with their time, if you search Google for the word “idiot,” images of President Donald Trump now come up as the top results.
Newsweek is reporting that out of the top five image search results for the term "idiot," four of them are Trump.
The Guardian reports that the connection between Trump and the term was done…
The Justice Department just settled a four-year lawsuit with Defense Distributed, a non-profit, private defense firm, allowing them to release their data and blueprints on how to 3D print a firearm.
The company first released their blueprints for a gun, called the Liberator, in 2013. After the files were downloaded over 100,000 times, the State Department claimed they violated International…
In an interview with Firing Line on PBS, socialist Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that unemployment is low because "everyone has two jobs" and still are barely able to feed their families.
There's just one problem: that's not how unemployment works.
The 28-year-old Democratic candidate, who's running for New York's 14th Congressional District on a platform of helping the…
