By Kathryn Watson Federal officials spend more tax dollars on Section 8 housing vouchers than they do on cash welfare, and the program often perpetuates poverty rather than alleviating it, according to an urban housing expert. “Its incentives are completely skewed,” Howard Husock, vice president for policy research and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at…
Blake Neff Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan Saturday morning, winning many cheers, and some boos, when he denounced the creation of “safe spaces” on university campuses. “The most important knowledge that you will leave here today with, like the importance of teamwork, has nothing to do with…
A few weeks ago we reported on the possibility of the Drug Enforcement Administration allowing the rescheduling of cannabis under the federal Controlled Substances Act. While this is something they have looked at before, this may be the year that finally brings about some sort of change from the DEA. Last week the DEA gave…
Kathryn Watson More than 850 families have transitioned out of public housing in Delaware since the state began limiting the length of time residents are eligible to receive housing subsidies, and hundreds more have become homeowners. “Before we started Moving to Work, we had people who were on their third or fourth generation of the…
A Florida sheriff’s office announced one of their officers has been fired and charged with battery after a video showed the officer allegedly punching a female detainee. Jacksonville Undersheriff Pat Ivey said officer Akinyemi Borisade inappropriately hit a strip club employee who had been arrested Wednesday, WJXT reports. A video of the incident released by the sheriff’s…
Prince did not leave a will upon his death, which means half of his estate’s worth will be stolen by the government. by Joey Clark In his 2009 song “Colonized Mind,” Prince laments “the blind leading the blind” in a struggle for domination and predation in the name of the law. One line of the…
By Andrew Follett Germany paid wind farms $548 million to switch off last year to prevent damage to the country’s electricity grid, according to a Thursday article in the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche. Germany’s wind and solar power systems have provided too much power at unpredictable times, which damaged the power grid and made the system vulnerable to blackouts. To fix the problem,…
By Andrew Follett Technologically advanced alien civilizations almost certainly exist, according to a new study by astronomers published Friday. The study used the most recent discoveries of planets outside the solar system to estimate the likelihood that other technologically advanced civilizations exist. The study estimates that the odds of humanity being the only civilization in the…
By Blake Neff The faculty senate at George Mason University (GMU) has approved a resolution officially protesting the school’s decision to rename its law school after deceased Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, complaining that Scalia’s jurisprudence was harmful to “marginalized” groups in the United States. GMU announced in March that it would be renaming its law school to…
By Russ Read Senator Dan Sullivan charged the Obama administration with being dishonest in its characterization of the role U.S. troops are playing in the fight against ISIS, claiming that they are indeed involved in combat, as opposed to what the president has said previously. Sullivan’s comments came Thursday morning during testimony in front of…