By Connor D. Wolf In preparation for a possible federal challenge, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the district court to allow the state to drug-test food stamp recipients. “This lawsuit seeks to provide clarity that the state of Wisconsin has the authority to require drug-testing for FoodShare recipients,” Schimel said in…
By Blake Neff A major donor to Ohio University (OU) is under fire for his novel strategy to fight student and faculty protesters: “Just play the race card!” Steven Schoonover is a trustee for the OU Foundation and has his name emblazoned on the school’s communications building, which he donated over $7 million to build. Now, students…
By Josh Fatzick After speaking with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, D.C.’s Delegate to Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton said she got Clinton’s personal support for the D.C. statehood movement. Norton had been following Clinton to various Capitol Hill Meetings and after the pair left a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Norton popped the D.C. statehood…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The real value of $100 varies sharply from city to city in the U.S., a new map from the Tax Foundation based on federal price data shows. Prices for the same goods are often much higher in major cities such as New York or D.C. than in smaller cities or rural areas….
By Blake Neff The Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has called for the destruction of Stone Mountain, an enormous bas-relief sculpture commemorating three leaders of the Confederacy. The demand puts them in unusual company: with the Taliban of Afghanistan. Stone Mountain, begun in 1923 and finished in 1972,…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Democratic presidential candidates were silent in the wake footage released Tuesday showing Planned Parenthood’s top doctor allegedly describing how the clinics sell the body parts of aborted babies. None of the declared Democratic presidential candidates — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Sen. Jim Webb, and…
By Blake Neff The star of a viral video that was used to demonstrate the severe catcalling women experience while out and about is now suing the video’s director for $500,000, according to TMZ, claiming everybody involved with the video has made money except for her. In the video “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” which has garnered…
By Blake Neff An Arizona black history professor has been caught repeatedly plagiarizing material for textbooks, including by copying paragraphs from sites like Wikipedia. Despite this, he has been punished with a relative slap on the wrist, keeping his job and losing only a small part of his generous salary. Until the last few days, Matthew Whitaker was a full professor…
By Michael Bastasch Organic farming is often sold as more environmentally friendly, but a new study out of Oregon found that large-scale organic farms are more greenhouse-gas intensive per acre than conventional farms. “My analysis finds that the rise of certified organic production in the United States is not correlated with declines in greenhouse gas emissions…
By Jonah Bennett Kliff Donald Speaker, a 46-year-old man, walked into the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center Tuesday morning and tried to light himself—and the hospital—on fire. To accelerate the process, Speaker doused himself in gasoline at the facility, Newsnet5 reports. For now, the Louis Stokes facility is closed, although hospital officials released a statement saying the facility will reopen…