By Lina Bryce Stefanie Williams took to Medium on Monday to compose an open response to former Eat24 employee Talia Jane, whose post on poverty allegedly resulted in her termination. Williams’ brutal honesty serves as a wake-up call for anyone looking for employment, while unwilling to do what is necessary to pay the bills. “She is on the receiving end…
The libertarian Republican from Michigan, Justin Amash, has endorsed Ted Cruz for president. In an op-ed in Independent Journal Review, Amash first praised Rand Paul calling him the ‘most passionate defender of our rights on the national stage,’ lamenting that Paul has dropped out of the race. He asks, “what now?” It’s easy to withdraw from politics when…
By Michael Bastasch House investigators want to know how much carbon dioxide a top Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official spewed into the atmosphere while traveling the country promoting agency rules aimed at curbing global warming. Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith’s office wants to know how much CO2 Janet McCabe, the head of EPA’s air and…
What would you do if you had to watch your child suffer through dozens of seizures a day? If you are like most parents, your answer is “anything I can do to help them.” That’s how Forrest Hurd feels. Forrest and his son Silas live in Nevada County, California. Like many parents in his situation,…
By Guy Bentley The leader of Britain’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn suffered a humiliating blow in the House of Commons Monday, with members of Parliament erupting into laughter at his irrelevance in the UK’s debate on whether to leave the European Union (EU). After Prime Minister David Cameron delivered his statement on the newly negotiated…
By Blake Neff The president of California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) unceremoniously ordered the cancellation of a planned event featuring conservative writer Ben Shapiro so it can be replaced with a more diverse featured speaker. The event, titled “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” was organized by CSULA’s chapter of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and was going…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Many college students will be too busy drinking and partying on spring break to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders in March, just as his presidential campaign gears up for a series of crucial Democratic primaries in their states. More than half a million college students — a key demographic for Sanders —…
Venezuela Clearly on the Road to Serfdom by Ben Ramanauskas In 1944, when continental Europe was on the verge of being liberated from fascism and while much of the world suffered under the oppressive yoke of communism, the Austrian economist F.A Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argued that the abandonment of individualism and…
By Andrew Follett Computer scientists should be more in touch with their feelings and emotions, according to a peer-reviewed study by a Purdue University academic published last week. The academic in question spent five years conducting an autoethnographic study on how introductory computer programming courses should be taught. Autoethnography is a form of “scientific” research that explores the researcher’s personal…
History Shows that Central Bank Policy Equates to Destruction by Ben Ramanauskas On September 15, 2008, the global investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was—and still remains—the largest bankruptcy filing in the history of the United States and precipitated a global financial crisis that has had a devastating impact on the world economy….