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Nobody questions the importance of getting enough sleep. At minimum, it’s essential for rejuvenating the mind and revitalizing the body. But, what is enough? And what does it look like? Many people find they wake during the night and wonder if they’re suffering from a sleep disorder or other health issue. While that could be […]

By Activist Post A day after Cloudflare removed service to the Daily Stormer, it has now terminated service to Cody Wilson’s website GhostGunner.net, Wilson announced…

Sam Howzit/flickrAnother questionable college sexual assault investigation winds up in court. Lindsay Marchello writes: Augustana University and a former student expelled in the wake of a Title IX sexual assault investigation in 2015 have agreed to a dismissal of the student’s lawsuit against the university. Koh Tsuruta, of Lake Mills, Iowa, and Augustana agreed in […]

As the Twitter kids say, #ItBegins. First came news that controversial nationalist Steve Bannon was finally being shown the White House door. Next came widespread follow-up musing on how dangerous Bannon might become to President Donald Trump from the outside (including juicy quotes like, “If he leaves, it’s the French Revolution”). Then came this ominous […]

Christian Britschgi|Aug. 18, 2017 4:30 pm Jeff Malet Photography/NewscomSteve Bannon, Trump’s controversial chief strategist and former Breitbart head, has been forced out of the White House. Mainstream Republicans have expressed relief at his departure. Breitbart commenters have not. Britain slowly cobbles together a plan for what a post-Brexit world might look like. Eugene, Oregon-based sexual […]

Thomas Hawk/flickrLast week’s boogeyman, North Korea, didn’t get much attention this week, as neo-Nazi marchers and Confederate statues captured the news cycle. But Washington and Pyongyang are taking slow but hopefully steady steps toward a diplomatic resolution. President Trump’s “fire and fury” comment came and went, making waves in domestic and foreign media but ultimately […]

“Everyone who lives in the city is going to die when the SHTF.” Have you ever been on a preparedness website and read that? It makes my blood boil, and not just because it’s a negative and discouraging thing to say. I am also not convinced that it’s correct.  Wherever you live, there are pros […]

By Aaron Kesel A group of concerned citizens has brought a 325-page class action lawsuit against Nestlé Waters North America, the company that owns Poland…

The white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville last weekend, as well as their confederates who cheered from afar, are now learning just how expensive it is to own those views in public. In the week since “Unite the Right,” Four of the men who marched in defense of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s statue no longer […]

There are so very many free speech/First Amendment controversies on in the wake of the Charlottesville unpleasantness, and in the run-up to planned alt-right demonstrations (and counter-demonstrations) that will make headlines the rest of summer. Can lefty politicians pre-emptively ban such demonstrations on grounds of incitement? Does the American Civil Liberties Union, in the words […]