If you’re the one in school, it’s your freedom that’s at stake Have you ever known young people to be scared when their parents and their teachers talk? They have reason to be. The gap between these two powers—the one ruling their home, the other in charge of them at school—is one of the places they…
Michael Bastasch The water crisis in Flint, Mich. isn’t the first time the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has come under fire for allowing children in an economically-depressed area be exposed to high levels of toxic lead. The agency backed a controversial study in the 1990s that intentionally exposed young children in Baltimore to lead. The study eventually…
Actor and comedian Tim Allen had some choice words when asked his opinion on the current election cycle, blasting people who want “free” things and comparing the Clintons to an STD. The star of the politically-outspoken sitcom Last Man Standing railed against political handouts and underscored his concern for the national debt in a recent interview. Candidates “are…
Democratic presidential candidate and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders pledged to raise taxes at a CNN Democratic town hall this week, mere days before the Iowa caucus, where Sanders is neck-and-neck with rival Hillary Clinton. But just how much more does Sanders intend to burden Americans with? According to analysis by The Tax Foundation, an independent…
By Lina Bryce Rand Paul was asked a question relating back to Ferguson, Missouri during the Fox News Republican debate Thursday night, and his response may be a pivotal moment for the Republican party. Since announcing his presidential bid, Paul has frequently said, “Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips…
From our friends at Hypeline.org by Emily Hennig Feminism: “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” By the Merriam-Webster definition I am a feminist. When the feminist movement started it was about women having the same rights as men. At this time women did not have rights; they couldn’t vote,…
It’s an increasingly well known fact that the halls of academia are littered with liberalism, but new statistical evidence demonstrates just how liberal they really are. Karl Marx, author of the notorious The Communist Manifesto, is the most assigned “economist”, to use the word loosely, in U.S. college classes. As far as notable works relating…
From our friends at Hypeline.org: By Stephen Rowe In an effort to ‘avoid the gender binary,’ the Labor Department proposed a new rule that seeks to remove the pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’ from an anti-discrimination regulation. And it will cost taxpayers roughly $4 million dollars. It also updates the list of things that count as…
Blake Neff A $2,700 per head fundraiser hosted by Chelsea Clinton Wednesday afternoon attracted so little interest that the Hillary Clinton campaign ended up selling the last of its 60 tickets for just $50. Clinton stopped by a New York City location for SoulCycle, a popular indoor cycling exercise chain, for what seemed like…
Blake Neff One of the country’s largest teachers unions is suing Detroit’s public school system, seeking to force its emergency manager out of office, while compelling the city to spend the money needed to fix up badly-decayed school buildings. Detroit Public Schools (DPS) teaches some 46,000 students from K-12, and has been rocked by a wave…