Why Generation X is Way Cooler Than Millennials by Dallas Brooks Generation X rules. Millennials drool. Tweet it, post it, Snapchat it, or throw it on whatever the latest app is. Anyway you cut it, those of us born between 1961 and 1981 (GenX) are the cool kids wearing leather jackets, sitting on our V-twin…
by Kitty Testa The United States takes in more immigrants than any other nation on earth. The U.S. is only about 4% of the world’s population, but we take in 20% of the world’s immigrant population. There are about 42.4 million immigrants in the United States, about 13% of the population. Whether you think that’s…
by Josh Guckert On Thursday afternoon, “Gary Johnson” began trending on Twitter. This appears to have stemmed from an article from Mother Jones. The piece by Jeremy Schulman entitled “Gary Johnson Wants to Ignore Climate Change Because the Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day” and subtitled with “Attention, millennials…” seems only the latest attempt by…
by Josh Guckert In 1968, the Supreme Court created the “stop and frisk” standard in the case of Terry v. Ohio. Since then, many cities have instituted such a policy allowing for officers to stop individuals if there is “reasonable suspicion” that they have committed or are about to commit a crime. Further, the officer may…
by Jonah Bennett A majority of active-duty troops stringently oppose nation-building efforts abroad, according to a new poll, preferring instead that the military focus on doing what it does best: killing terrorists and keeping the homeland safe. Commissioned by Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, the poll found that…
If I owe my being a classical liberal or libertarian to any thinker, it is definitely the economist Milton Friedman. I accidentally stumbled on a YouTube video of him a couple of years ago and both his charisma and simple argument about the correlation between capitalism and freedom convinced me that a free society required…
by Josh Guckert In Charlotte, North Carolina, a black man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by a police officer on Tuesday night. The officer, Brently Vinson, is also a black man. As in any police shooting where this is the case, many conservative publications have seemingly insisted that this on its face destroys any…
Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan Calls out Obama for his absence in the inner cities by Brittni Kates Follow Brittni on Twitter, Like Brittni on Facebook When you look at history, there is no question the Democratic Party has always been an enemy of African-Americans and their rights. From the very beginning of the Democratic Party,…
by Phillip Stucky Republican nominee Donald Trump reacted to the ongoing violent protests in Charlotte, North Carolina on Fox and Friends Thursday morning. “It’s a terrible thing we’re witnessing. Something’s going on that’s bad. This is the United States of America,” Trump said over the phone. “Well, it’s ‘wow, here we go again, You look at what…
by Blake Neff Rioters in Charlotte attempted to throw a photographer into a fire they started, a local news station reported Wednesday night. WCCB said in a tweet at 10:48 p.m. that its reporters witnessed “protesters” attempting to burn the photographer. #WCCB witnessed protesters try to throw still photographer into fire in Uptown #Charlotte. https://t.co/T6i8AH5iGu…