Michael Bastasch House lawmakers will unveil a carbon tax bill this week that critics have labeled “population control through taxation” because of a provision they see as a “backdoor two-child limit.” “The carbon tax is a bad idea. Even the French don’t like it,” Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), said in…
Neetu Chandak Students and faculty at a Michigan college are getting ready to use hockey pucks as weapons in case of a campus shooter situation. Oakland University American Association of University Professors (AAUP) President Thomas Discenna led an effort for the union to buy 2,500 94-cent hockey pucks, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday. Pucks were distributed…
Hanna Bogorowski Advisor to the president Ivanka Trump responded to the criticism she’s received for her use of a private email during her time in her father’s administration, saying there is “no equivalency” between her situation and the one that plagued Hillary Clinton. Reports surfaced earlier in November claiming Trump sent hundreds of emails in 2017 to…
Neetu Chandak A California professor assigned an essay prompt worth 30 percent of students’ grades that featured a hypothetical scenario with “Donald Rump” and “Students for Offensive Speech.” “Students for Offensive Speech” invites reality TV star “Donald Rump” to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the assignment, Campus Reform reported Wednesday. Students have to pretend…
Grace Carr The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will require full studies in order for new products and devices to be approved, meaning companies won’t be able to get their products approved anymore based on 40-year-old “equivalence” standards that allowed potentially unsafe products to hit the market. “Data show that nearly…
Peter Hasson New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday compared members of the migrant caravan attempting to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Members of the caravan on Sunday rushed the border at the San Ysidro port of entry, which connects Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California. WATCH: emma murphy ✔@emmamurphyitv…
Evie Fordham The difficulties some members of Congress have affording housing are again front and center because of Nov. 8 comments from Democratic New York Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about making rent. Her comments about “squirreling away” money until she starts receiving her congressional salary of $174,000 in January re-ignited debate on the issue that has included proposals…
Nick Givas The New York Post published an article about the founder of Thanksgiving Saturday and credited a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale with crafting the holiday as we know it. The pilgrims are said to have carried on the tradition of Thanksgiving, but they only celebrated the holiday “sporadically” and never held it as a custom, according to The New York…
Chris White President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he is thankful for his family, as well as the difference his presidency is making to the country and the world. “I’ve made a tremendous difference in the country,” Trump told reporters on Thanksgiving Day. “This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took…
Jason Hopkins Heavy rains in northern California are helping firefighters contain what has now become the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history. Mother Nature is giving firefighters badly needed relief as they continue to battle Camp Fire, a raging wildfire in the northern region of the state that has killed at least 84 people and…