It’s been a little over two years since retail marijuana sales began in Colorado and guess what? Legalization looks pretty much the way activists have been saying it would. Catastrophe has not ensued! Of course less people are going to jail for weed; that’s a given. On top of that, a ton of economic activity…
One of the lesser reported moments from the president’s Town Hall event on Guns in America hosted by CNN, was the moment where the president confessed that the first lady had said she might want to own a gun. “At one point, Michelle turned to me and she said, ‘You know, if I was living…
There’s a brilliant new meme that is allowing Millennials to vent their frustrations with the economy they’ve inherited. Meet Old Economy Steve, the man whom they wish they could trade places with. The meme examines the vastly different economies which Millennials and their parents inherited by pairing statements regarding opportunities and advantages Baby Boomers had…
As Bernie Sanders gains in the polls, remember he’s just as serious (and confused) about gun control as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. by Joey Clark Bernie Sanders has been taking fire from the left by Hillary and her ilk as “soft” on the issue of gun control. Sanders, a Senator from rural Vermont, has tried push…
By GRANT PHILLIPS Robert Reich’s new video series focuses on ten problems in our economy. In video number four, Reich offers various measures to “tame Wall Street” because “Wall Street screwed us once.” His proposal is a concoction of talking points from “greedy bankers” and “too big to fail” to “inequality” and “fairness.” To Reich’s…
Juliegrace Brufke President Barack Obama is expected to cover a wide range of topics topics Tuesday during his last State of the Union, and it’s pretty unlikely that one of them will be exploding health care costs under Obamacare. Freedom Partners, an Arlington, Va.-based conservative non-profit, reported Sunday that premiums in the individual market place will jump in all but…
Blake Neff With the Powerball lottery jackpot currently at an unfathomably enormous $1.4 billion as of Monday afternoon, many people likely have questions about how, exactly, the lottery works. Thankfully, Powerball itself has you covered with its refreshingly honest, surprisingly bizarre Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page that is filled with humor one doesn’t normally associate…
Democratic sources are saying that Secretary of State John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden, or even Al Gore could be tapped as a late entry if Hillary Clinton is unable to get the job done. With Bernie Sanders nipping at her heals and the FBI investigation on her getting more serious by the day, Democratic…
Even if You Did Give Everyone $4.3 Million, Poverty Would Get Worse [dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] popular meme going around Facebook attempts to paint the narrative that giving everyone $4.3 million from the Powerball would solve poverty for good. Not only is the math for this completely wrong, but the economics behind this whole concept wouldn’t work…
Andrew Follett NASA announced Friday that it has formalized a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to defend Earth from asteroids that could potentially end humanity. The new office will aggregate previously existing American asteroid detection programs such as the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search, and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System. The office will also work…