Blake Neff Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water is grabbing headlines around the country, but a critical part of the city’s desperate situation is being overlooked: The role of costly public pensions. The immediate cause of Flint’s crisis is obvious. In April 2014, Flint stopped using Detroit’s water system and start drawing water from the Flint River for…
Juliegrace Brufke Just hours before the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, 2016 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rolled out his Medicare-for-all plan Sunday. The federally administered, single-payer health-care program, which is designed to mirror the system already in place for seniors, is slated to cost a whopping $1.38 trillion a year according to the…
Guy Bentley The majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, according to the latest poll. The percentage of Americans who support marijuana legalization rose four points to 52 percent from when YouGov last asked the same question back in March 2015. More than half of adults under the age of 65 support legalization but there…
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is an unsettling lesson in military adventurism and a damning indictment of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. The film follows a group of military contractors, including two former Navy SEALs, as they employ security for CIA agents in Benghazi, Libya, arranging to buy arms from unsavory groups in order…
Last night Donald Trump managed to feign personal outrage over Ted Cruz’s remarks about “New York values.” Now a video has surfaced showing Donald Trump is very familiar with the “New York values” Cruz spoke of– in fact, at one time he was quite proud of them. How did Cruz define liberal values? The Texas…
Libertarian elitism is something that truly annoys me, but it really shows itself when we have these Rand Paul vs. Ron Paul discussions during our current election cycle. Do not get me wrong, it isn’t completely absurd that someone would compare a man to his father. But if one is alluding to an expectation that Rand is…
A picture of bottle allegedly filled with Flint, Mich., tap water taken by photojournalist Jake May of The Flint Journal made its rounds on the front page of Reddit Friday. Michigan governor makes federal appeal for help in Flint water crisis https://t.co/SvHzTRdbcl pic.twitter.com/VM4f6iHQ1U — CBC News (@CBCNews) January 15, 2016 May took the picture while attending a protest…
Personal tragedy has a way of reminding you of what is really important life, and national electoral politics is very low on the list. by Joey Clark [dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] year or so ago, I took to the airwaves and told my local radio audience about the tragic news transpiring in my family. Usually, the…
Rachel Stoltzfoos The New York Times borrowed a favorite line of logic from the pro-life movement Wednesday in an effort to hit Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz with campaign finance allegations. Cruz took out two loans in 2012 that may have helped his Senate bid, but did not disclose them to the Federal Election Commission,…
The countries of Canada and Mexico may have to plead their case before the mighty United Nations if they wish to legalize marijuana, lest they violate several international conventions that govern the global war on drugs. This information comes from a briefing note received by new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau’s Liberal Party came…