By Blake Neff Published: August 12, 2014 A popular, twice-a-year concert at Columbia University has been put out to pasture after administrators decided that the event was causing sexual assaults at the school. The university’s four undergraduate deans, acting over the protests of students and even anti-sexual assault groups on campus, announced that Bacchanal, a major campus concert…
By Greg Campbell photo by: (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post) A peculiar campaign to keep kids from smoking pot in Denver — involving giant cages and the message for teens not to be “lab rats” by experimenting with marijuana — is getting mixed reactions.Some say the giant props are good for starting conversations with young…
By Michael Bastasch How old is too old for employment data? Well, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using decades old economic data to analyze regulations, according to a government watchdog report. The Government Accountability Office reported the EPA “estimated effects of its regulations on employment, in part, using a study that… was based on data…
By Blake Neff Published: August 12, 2014 Attending college has for some time been associated in the public mind with a decrease in religiosity. Now a new paper in the social science journal Social Forces argues that this association may have halted or even reversed, with individuals with a college education now more likely to be religious. The…
By Blake Neff For the first time in U.S. history, when public school students return to the classroom this fall, a majority of them will not be non-Hispanic whites, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. The news is derived from data kept by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a division of the federal…
By Peter Fricke Despite decades of federal intervention in the housing market, home ownership rates are virtually the same today as they were in 1968, according to an brief released by the Heritage Foundation on Monday. According to the report, “the rate of U.S. homeownership has remained nearly constant over the past 50 years as government intervention…
By Michael Bastasch Critics are saying Bill Nye “the science guy” and former Vice President Al Gore got their global warming science wrong, citing previously published research. Back in 2011, Nye and Gore teamed up to show that global warming was real using “a simple lab experiment.” The problem is that such experiments have been…
Edit 3/5/15: A reader wrote in to correct our article. Three Mile Beach is in the city of Penticton in the interior of British Columbia, not near Vancouver at all. We strive for accuracy in journalism, and appreciate this correction. A homeowner near a beach in Penticton wants nude sunbathers to be “convicted of terrorism.” A group of…
Rick Wiles announced on his Christian talk show program that, “Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion.” Wiles, host of the “Trunews” show seemed enthusiastic about the outbreak and the potential for it to kill the groups of people he despises. “It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe…
MOORE COUNTY, FL – Carlos Gascon is sitting in jail for brutally beating his girlfriend after he had a dream that she cheated on him. Gascon’s girlfriend was luckily able to call for help after being beaten all day last Friday. He allegedly choked her, cut her legs up with a knife, poured hot coffee…