By Blake Neff A 50-page report released on Monday by New Jersey’s Department of Education rates over 97 percent of the state’s teachers as either “effective” or “highly effective.” Out of New Jersey’s roughly 100,000-strong teaching corps, just 2,900, or 2.8 percent, received the lesser ratings of “partly effective” or “ineffective.” Under the state’s rating system, a…
By Bedford After a series of recent reports exposed the FBI’s fleet of domestic spy planes, Congress is demanding answers. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, wrote a letter calling on FBI Director James Comey to give the public the skinny on how much he is invading Americans’ privacy with his fleet of small spy planes….
By Connor D. Wolf A plan by the Los Angeles City Council to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 could result in an anti-gang charity firing half of their cases– men and woman already at risk of returning to a life of crime. Late last month the city council voted 14 to 1 on a…
By Blake Neff A sex ed teacher in Minneapolis caused an uproar after she took her class on a field trip to an adult novelty store without telling parents. The Smitten Kitten bills itself as “a progressive sex toy store for everyone,” and “everyone” apparently includes middle school-aged students at Gaia Democratic School, an unconventional K-12 private school…
By Peter Fricke Former Republican Rep. Ron Paul claims that even though the Export-Import Bank benefits hostile regimes, interventionists support it because it subsidizes the military-industrial complex. The libertarian-minded Paul outlined his objections to the bank in his weekly column for the Ron Paul Institute. He said taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize either state-owned foreign companies or “America’s biggest…
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By Blake Neff Mike Huckabee wishes he could have been a transsexual in high school so he could shower with girls. At least, that’s what the 2016 presidential contender says in a recently-released video of him attending the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention. The event was held in Nashville, Tennessee several months ago, but a video…
By Josh Fatzick A man in Japan died Sunday after a giant bamboo-framed kite came crashing out of the sky and crushed four people. The 1,500 pound kite was being flown as part of a festival at a park in the city of Higashiomi when a gust of wind forced it to the ground from around…
By Casey Harper Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a serious embarrassment over the weekend when Congress let certain key provisions of the Patriot Act expire at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning. At the end of a chaotic weekend and with a new bill likely to pass in the next few days addressing the vast and complex federal surveillance…