Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and the political machines are charging full speed ahead. Marco Rubio has been on a whirlwind tour hitting the states of Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Minnesota, all within a few days of the primaries. Cruz is staying a little closer to home, trying to increase the odds of a…
Is Philadelphia in line to become the next nanny-state like New York City? According to Citified, a Philadelphia-based magazine, Mayor Jim Kenney plans to introduce a soda tax during his budget proposal next week, the details of which are currently unknown. The city has been hammered with new taxes over the past several years, including a…
Guy Bentley A new study calls into question one of the most frequently cited arguments for regulating e-cigarettes and doubting their potential to reduce harms caused by smoking. Published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the study shows levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde emitted from e-cigarettes are significantly lower than levels found in regular cigarettes….
Connor D. Wolf Rebecca Friedrichs spoke with fellow teachers and right-to-work advocates Saturday about her case against forced union dues and her years of allegedly being bullied for speaking out. Friedrichs spoke at the Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU) conference about her experience with the California Teachers Association (CTA). The same experience that…
Casey Harper A Florida appellate court lifted an injunction Friday against a contentious law that states women must wait 24 hours before getting an abortion. Florida passed a law last year that requires women seeking an abortion see a doctor and then wait 24 hours before actually ending the pregnancy, The Tampa Bay Times reports….
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both claimed they will unite the American state. So who’s the real uniter? The man calling for unified strength or the woman calling for compulsory group love? by Joey Clark I was sitting on the balcony of my father’s fifth floor beach condominium, recovering from the preceding day’s adventure…
By Elias J. Atienza The first Libertarian Party debate was hosted in Biloxi, Mississippi, by the Libertarian Parties of Mississippi and Alabama this past weekend. Here, despite my own personal bias, there were several clear winners and losers. The debate was split into two parts; one with all eleven candidates and then the second half…
John Oliver has pretty much ignored Donald Trump… Until now. The 22 minute segment tears Trump apart in hilarious fashion!
Casey Harper Bernie Sanders may be in trouble for illegal donations. The Federal Election Commission may take “further legal action” after the Bernie Sanders campaign was caught accepting thousands of illegal donations, the Washington Free Beacon reports. The FEC sent a letter Thursday to the campaign pointing out over 3,000 donations that violated campaign finance…
Jonah Bennett Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said that if Donald Trump takes over as president, the military may flat-out refuse to follow orders from Trump. Those orders are based on certain campaign pledges Trump has made during his campaign tours, Hayden said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Politico reports. Hayden…