Colorado Boy Punished For Normal Childish Behavior This past Monday, Elijah Thurston, a 6-year-old Colorado boy, was punished with a 1 day suspension from Stratton Meadows Elementary School after he pointed his finger in the shape of a gun at another classmate and said, “You’re dead.” Elijah was also required to sit down with a school…
The 21st century technological revolution has been a profound era of human development. The wide range of high-tech products have come with countless implications for both the good and bad. Drones have become a popular technology with multiple applications. How they are used and by who is a distinction that should be made. Drones are…
By: Casey Bennett Eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the three daily meals to which we are so accustomed, might actually be a sign of our deep-seated racism towards Native Americans. Mother Jones senior editor Kiera Butler argues that eating three meals a day is racist because early European settlers imported their eating habits to America…
By Ryan Carrillo [dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]ey men, want to get lucky? Just put on some rubber gloves and start scrubbing those dishes! At least that’s what Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg would have us believe. According to Sandberg, most women will likely have more sex with their significant other if they just do more chores. She’s even given…
by Jose Nino A recent congressional study revealed that Obama’s November amnesty plan will cost taxpayers $1.7 billion over a period of 10 years. This news came two days after high-ranking Republicans where able to fend off opposition to a 2015 budget bill that will fund Obama’s unpopular amnesty plan for approximately 5 million illegal…
Maryland parents Danielle and Alexander Meitiv believe in the concept of “free range children,” the idea that children should be afforded a reasonable amount of independence for their age and maturity without so-called “helicopter” parents watching over every move. It’s a concept my own mother and father bought in to, and their children are certainly all…
John Stossel was born in Chicago 68 years ago today. In his life, he has gone from liberal consumer reporter to libertarian hero, along the way shifting the dialogue from the ways in which government must protect us, to the ways in which we must be protected from government. After graduating from Princeton in 1969,…
A recent story in the Guardian highlighted that an average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the United States went undocumented in the country’s most prominent crime statistics every year for nearly a decade. This unprecedented attempt to estimate the number of “law enforcement homicides” revealed that the FBI’s…
On December 18th, 2014, President Obama signed an executive order establishing The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. This past Monday the president touted that commission’s interim report as a chance to take action in advancing national standards and practices for local policing. The plan is nothing short of the beginning of a nationalized…
Hillary Clinton Offers Lesson In Irony [dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arlier this week, it was discovered that Hillary Clinton had been using a personal email account at the State Department to conduct government business. This may have violated federal requirements that official communications be kept on record. Following Hillary Clinton’s lesson in regards to the Obama administration’s vow of transparency, she has…