Category: Blogosphere

The EU Attacks the Right to Privacy… Insists STATE-ISSUED ID CARDS Be Used On Social Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The European Union has a new way to make sure no one is mean to you on the Internet tubuals. You’ll only be allowed to post if you log in using a government issued ID number. What could go wrong with that, I ask you? Raheem Kassam of Breitbart London also points out that this […]

 

Officer Kills Himself When Falsely Linked To Ashley Madison By Cop Block [Video]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This is just unbelievably sad. Captain Michael Gorhum committed suicide after his email was linked to the Ashley Madison web site. The cop-hating website Cop Block posted his name and email over the whole Ashley Madison affair. The only problem is, it wasn’t true. Gorhum never signed up or paid to be a member of […]

 

Netroots Nation’s Group Identity Politics Disintegrates into Anarchy

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

For years, the right has been frustrated by the left’s ability to unite various interest groups successfully as a force. The right hasn’t had as much success, with factions calling each other RINOs and lecturing about Reagan’s 11th Commandment. Now, it looks like the left’s ability to work together is finally unraveling. It is happening […]

 

The End Of Constitutional Government

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

NoisyRoom.net It’s been an historic week and although I am not surprised by the Supreme Court decisions, they saddened me beyond belief. I have sadly come to the conclusion that many of my colleagues are correct… our Constitutional form of government is now dead and Obama’s transformative ‘change’ is all but complete. Things are now […]

 

Obama is quietly implementing an OUTRAGEOUS rule against gun owners

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Here it comes… the full-out assault on the First and Second Amendments, while we are all chasing the latest squirrel that has us scared to death. Under the auspices of ITAR, Obama is seeking to censor sites on the Internet from being able to mention guns or even to discuss them. Blogs and forums would […]

 

The Milspo Project Empowers Military Spouses To Be Entrepreneurial

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman Back in April, I attended a dinner in Georgetown with 10 or so military spouses.  My friend Rocky Harrigan, owner of BuildorBuyAR.com,  invited me along to catch up and meet her friends. (They’re stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayettville, NC with their husbands.) Little did I know that I’d be meeting some entrepreneurial […]

 

11 Books Millennials Should Read for Career Advice

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by Joshua de Gastyne Biographies 1) Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (2015) Hot off the press and selling like hot-cakes, this new bio profiles the journey of an ambitious young man from South Africa who has already founded billion-dollar companies in three radically different industries: cars, rockets, and […]

 

Rosemary Willis Ferrera Brings Pageant Flair to Politics and Fitness

Posted on by Counter Cultured

Rosemary Willis Ferrera is someone right-minded Millennials should get to know.  We’ve had the pleasure of making her acquaintance here in Northern Virginia and are happy to profile her! Rosemary is perhaps best known for her involvement in the Miss America Organization (MAO) as Miss Virginia 2012. She currently works for Washington Free Beacon as their […]

 

US Sec. of State Kerry Wants More Laws to Hobble the Internet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Get ready for RightWingNews or any of your other favorite conservative news sites to be legislated out of existence if Secretary of State John Kerry has his way. Kerry is calling for an avalanche of new laws to hobble the Internet. Kommie Kerry claims he wants the Internet to “work properly” but in Obama commie […]

 

UCSD Professor Ricardo Dominguez Makes Students Strip In Class

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman UC-San Diego professor Ricardo Dominguez is coming under fire for requiring his students to strip for a final exam. Dominguez, an associate professor of visual arts at our alma mater, is being rightfully criticized for subjecting his students to partaking in erotic behavior. Dominguez has taught a course called Visual Arts 104A: Performing the Self for […]

 

Young People Should Visit Liberty Farm

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman I recently had the pleasure of visiting Liberty Farm in Paris, Virginia. Its owner is freedom farmer Martha Boneta, who’s a household name here in the Commonwealth. Situated roughly 65 miles west of the nation’s capital, Liberty Farm is like a small slice of heaven marked by green pastures, clear blue skies, and […]

 

The Continuity of Government – The Mystery of Peters Mountain

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

NoisyRoom.net Hat Tip: Trapper Pettit A friend sent me an article from Zero Hedge that I find intriguing and it raises far more questions than answers. I did not know that there was something called a PreparAthon held by FEMA on April 30th. Did you? Supposedly the nationwide drills are for – get this – […]

 

A Millennial Response to “Cultural Conservatives Have Barely Begun to Fight”

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman Yesterday, David French penned a great article in National Review called “Cultural Conservatives Have Barely Begun to Fight”, which addresses many of the issues we cover here at Counter Cultured. This article is a response to Rod Dreher’s “The Accidental Benedict Option” at The American Conservative, which suggests that Christians should retreat from American culture and instead focus on building […]

 

Crayle Vanest Is Standing Up for Gun Rights On Campus

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman Here at Counter Cultured, we are inclined to give our fellow right-minded Millennials the spotlight if they are doing big things. Our movement grows when we have more passionate voices–not fewer voices. One Millennial worth profiling is Crayle Vanest, a 22-year-old Indiana University senior passionate about the Second Amendment.  Crayle currently serves as […]

 

Meet Matt Perdie: A Young Conservative Filmmaker

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman Matt Perdie is a Millennial who is passionate about making quality films focused on conservative ideas. His past projects include filming or editing conservative videos, interviews, and films. These include Justen Charters’ music video “Six Trillion Dollar Man,” Smart Girl Politics videos, Romans XIII (a conservative web series), Tea Party News Network CPAC interviews, Tea Party: The Documentary, Runaway Slave, Stand […]

 

“Get Hard” Symbolizes What’s Wrong With Our Culture

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman Yesterday I saw the film Get Hard, which features Will Farrell and Kevin Hart. Anticipating a film full of humor and silliness, I walked out of the theater disgusted with the content of the film, which was very sexually explicit, politically correct, and characteristic of the rotten state of our culture. However, the […]

 

Why Online Dating Might Not Be Worth Your Time

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman Yesterday, The Daily Beast had some interesting insights into online dating in an article called “Why Online Dating Is Killing Your Anonymity”. It discussed how dating apps like Tinder and websites like OKCupid have made it harder for people to maintain anonymity online when looking for someone to date because people whom you know often […]

 

UCSD Makes Bold Move Evicting Ché Cafe

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman On Tuesday, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) allowed the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to seize the Ché Cafe. The co-op was handed an eviction notice on March 17, 2015, after more than a decade of back-and-forth over the building’s decrepit state. The controversial cafe- which pays homage to communist Ché […]

 

Communism Is So Not Hot, Paris Hilton

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman Paris Hilton is partying with Cuban communists? That’s so not hot! Hilton hotel heiress and celebrity Paris Hilton recently vacationed in Cuba. This comes after the Obama administration announced its intention to bolster diplomatic ties between our two countries, while easing restrictions on travel and exports. Hilton isn’t the only American celebrity to […]

 

Meet Aivis: A Culturally Conservative, European Millennial

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman Aivis Indāns, originally from Latvia, is a culturally conservative and European Millennial who lives in the UK.  I first met Aivis last year in the summer when he was visiting Washington, D.C., through my sister who was corresponding with him via Twitter. Gabriella and I love to meet conservative Millennials from around […]

 

President Obama’s Spying Eyes

Posted on by Derek Varsalona

NEW CYBER SECURITY AGENCY FORMED BY: Derek Varsalona Guess what, America?  President Barack Obama really cares about your cyber security and cyber presence in this nation. He really does care a great deal about your Facebook updates, your life on twitter; he cares about what emails you are reading and what websites you are going […]

 

Nanny Statists Give Cultural Conservatives A Bad Name

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman and Gabriella Hoffman  Big government sadly pervades our country today. Whether it’s the marriage of big business and government or the union of nanny statism and Cultural Marxism (political correctness), big government policies adversely affect people on the cultural and economic fronts. Though we are inclined to criticize and condemn the […]

 

The Coolest Guns from SHOT Show 2015

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Gabriella Hoffman While at SHOT Show last week, I checked out some of the latest rifle, handgun, and pistol models from various gun manufacturers.  As a relative newbie in the gun industry, SHOT Show gave me a glimpse into this unfairly vilified yet wonderful community. The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) SHOT Show attracted roughly […]

 

Support School Choice, Not ‘Free’ Education

Posted on by Counter Cultured

Education is in dire need of serious reform and overhaul. As our government continues to grow in its size and scope, our quality of education subsequently plummets. Big government initiatives such as Common Core, “Free Community College“, and student loan forgiveness – among many things – have plunged the U.S. further into obsolescence as a […]

 

More Women Are Flocking To The Gun Industry

Posted on by Counter Cultured

Las Vegas, Nevada — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)’s 37th annual SHOT Show convention is underway in fabulous Las Vegas, NV. Over 60,000 people are in attendance at this year’s convention. In fact, a large fraction of convention attendees are female. NSSF President and CEO Steve Sanetti unveiled a new study this morning at […]

 

Counter Cultured Chats with Chris Cheng at SHOT Show

Posted on by Counter Cultured

Las Vegas, Nevada — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)’s 37th annual SHOT Show convention is currently underway. This is the largest gathering of outdoor industry professionals, buyers, sellers, and enthusiasts in the United States. NRA News commentator and Top Shot winner Chris Cheng was gracious enough to sit down with Counter Cultured for an […]