Disecting the GOP Debate From a Libertarian Perspective [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he fourth GOP Debate was a turning point in the presidential contest. Lindsey Graham was removed from all debates, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee were demoted to the undercard debate, and there was more time to go around for all candidates on the main stage. Thus,…
Guy Bentley Claims that the gender pay gap effectively means that women are working for free from Nov. 9 are based on manipulated statistics and encourage a “victimhood mentality.” The Fawcett Society, a women’s rights group in the United Kingdom, marked this year’s equal pay day by claiming there was a 14.2 percent overall pay…
Andrew Follett The New York Times reported Tuesday that solar, wind, and other “green” energy sources won’t be deployed in the developing world soon enough to stop global warming. “Even as the world shifts toward lower-carbon forms of energy, the changes are happening too slowly to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels,” The New…
Steve Ambrose The director of the National Security Agency and Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers said that in 2014, 91 percent of software vulnerabilities discovered by the NSA were publicly disclosed. He made the comments at the Reagan National Defense Forum Nov. 7, where a gathering of national security officials discussed the…
Guy Bentley The majority of Americans are woefully misinformed about the health effects of vaping, with public health campaigners bearing the brunt of the criticism for spreading scare stories about the dangers of e-cigarettes. A poll conducted for the Boston Globe and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that only 44 percent of Americans…
Guy Bentley The war on drugs isn’t working and is destroying the lives of some of the poorest people in the world, according to a new report from the charity Christian Aid. Criminals running the illegal drug trade have gained so much power that they are “virtually shaping the economies, governance and social fabric of…
Blake Neff The infamous “Shrieking Girl” at Yale University who now famously berated a professor for not making Yale a “safe space” is from a relatively privileged background and has been frantically moving to delete her online presence, an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveals. Also, despite shrieking “Who the fuck hired you?”…
Casey Harper The city council in Knoxville, Iowa, will be full of new members in January after a dispute over a veteran’s memorial bearing a cross led voters to boot out the incumbents. It all started when Americans United for Separation of Church and State demanded that the city council take down a veteran’s monument in Young’s…
Blake Neff Dartmouth College is under fire for using its largest auditorium to host a Hillary Clinton campaign event, after previously telling the Donald Trump campaign that it would now allow said auditorium to be used by presidential candidates. Dartmouth’s decision was first reported by the website Campus Reform, which was told of the situation…
Kathryn Watson Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials recently used a warrant-less subpoena on a Texas-based grocery chain that fired an employee who failed a post-maternity leave physical fitness test, demanding the home addresses and Social Security numbers of every company employee. The EEOC’s action was made possible because officials there used warrant-less demands – formally…