By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Birmingham Parks and Recreation board voted unanimously Wednesday to remove a monument to the Confederacy from a public park across the street from Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse. Parks and Recreation Board member and former Birmingham Mayor Benard Kincaid told a local Fox affiliate he wants to respect history, but…
Obama Finds It’s Surprisingly Tough To Eliminate His Wage Gap By Blake Neff Data recently released by the White House has revealed President Barack Obama’s staff continues to have a large pay gap between male and female employees, a reality that suggests Obama’s campaign against a “discriminatory” gender pay gap rests on shaky ground. The…
Enviros That Supported The Pope’s Encyclical Tout Abortion To Solve Global Warming By Michael Bastasch Here’s some irony for you. The same environmentalists that fervently supported the Pope’s call for global governance over the climate and oceans are also pushing explicitly anti-Catholic policies to fight global warming: more access to contraceptives and abortion. The Sierra…
By Blake Neff Zandria Robinson, the recently-departed University of Memphis professor who described “whiteness” as synonymous with “terror,” had even more old tweets resurface Thursday, in which she blames whites for every lethal riot in U.S. history, blasts Dick and Jane stories for being “heteropatriarchal,” and even attributes her menstrual disorder to white “microaggressions.” (RELATED:…
By Casey Harper New body camera footage out of Texas shows just how quickly police interactions can turn violent and gives a window into the kind of incidents we will be seeing as police departments across the country adopt body cameras. Sgt. Gabriel Green and Officer Kaylynn Griffin fatally shot James Bushey, 47, outside a restaurant…
Club For Growth Warns About Christie’s Mixed Fiscal Record By Blake Neff The Club for Growth, an organization promoting lower taxes, entitlement reform and other conservative economic causes, has released a white paper warning that Republicans should be wary of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s fiscal record. Christie has described himself in recent interviews as a “conservative Republican”…
Get A Warrant, Flatfoot! Authorities in the great state of Iowa will now need a full blown search warrant if they intend on searching your vehicle. The case arises out of a stop three years ago, where a man was pulled over for driving with expired plates. Jesse Gaskins admitted to officers that he had…
By Blake Neff About 1,400 Chicago public school teachers and staff are expected to lose their jobs in order to finance a pension debt of $634 million, the city announced Wednesday. The layoffs are part of an aggressive $200 million budget cut to help finance the pension payment, which is required of Chicago Public Schools by Illinois law. The rest of the…