By Casey Harper While most Americans put on a few pounds for Thanksgiving, the federal government has been spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars researching why obese girls don’t have sex. The National Institute for Health grant allocated $466,642 to the Magee-Women’s Research Institute to study the sexual habits of obese girls, including how…
By Blake Neff Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gave a strong reaffirmation of his support for Common Core on Thursday, declaring that the controversial multi-state education standards represent the “new minimum” for what students must learn in the classroom. Bush was in Washington, D.C. to give the opening address at the 2014 National Summit on…
President Obama seemed visibly uncomfortable when asked a question about whether or not he was deceitful in selling health care reform to the American people. Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was caught admitting that Democrats counted on American voter’s stupidity and economic ignorance, forcing the president into a very uncomfortable situation politically. Obama claimed that Gruber…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos If Americans understood how much it costs the IRS to collect taxes, and how much it costs for taxpayers to file them, they might demand change, an economics lawyer said Friday. “We’re talking about a massive amount of money,” Dan Mastromarco said at a Heritage Foundation event on tax compliance. “If we…
Police in Braintree, Massachusetts issued a summons to a man for impersonating a police officer after they spotted his $100,000 Maserati, which was painted black and white. Braintree Deputy Police Chief Wayne Foster reported that the owner of the vehicle was stopped when they spotted his car, which was allegedly made to look like a…
By Peter Fricke Despite decades of federal intervention in the housing market, home ownership rates are virtually the same today as they were in 1968, according to an brief released by the Heritage Foundation on Monday. According to the report, “the rate of U.S. homeownership has remained nearly constant over the past 50 years as government intervention…
By Michael Bastasch President Obama has said he would not approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it significantly increased U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, a huge nod to environmentalists who oppose the project on global warming grounds. A new report, however, shows that Obama’s failure to approve the pipeline may substantially increase America’s carbon footprint. The American…
A new CNN poll shows that popularity of Russia was fairly popular in the United States until the recent airline disaster in Ukraine. Still, despite the plummeting of opinion, the former Soviet Union is still more popular than the United States Congress. From CNN: Most Americans say Russia is directly or indirectly responsible for the…
COFFEE COUNTY, GA – A Coffee County Sheriffs deputy tried to shoot a dog that was allegedly running towards the deputy while he was looking for a suspect. Instead, the cop shot a 10-year-old kid. The child, who was shot in the back of the knee, was transported to the Coffee Regional Medical Center…
By Blake Neff New data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicates that American students finish behind their international peers when it comes to financial literacy. The results were the product of a test taken two years ago by some 30,000 15-year-old students in 18 countries. The test was designed to see if…