by Alejandro Canosa The homeland of my youth is a warning, yet also a promise of what could be in the “land of liberty” I now call home. For decades Argentina’s government has grown by regulating the economy and increasing social spending. As the economy suffered, Argentina’s government attempted to “stimulate” it by spending, printing…
This feline may have been the first of its kind to watch a Chiefs game, after his owner smuggled him in under his coat. The picture is cute but raises questions. What kind of security are they running there? Questions of waste disposal also come to mind, as the stadium doesn’t offer litter boxes. None…
Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the soaring cost of child care for American families. As the WSJ explains, “the cost of child care and nursery school has increased nearly twice as fast as overall inflation since the recession ended” in 2009. Particularly striking is the change in child-rearing costs between 1960 and…
Rob Shimshock Maryland lawmakers voted Friday to give voters the option to direct all of the state’s casino profits to K-12 public education, instead of reserving some of them to balance the budget. The state’s principal teachers’ union, the Maryland State Education Association, reported that Maryland has appropriated a total of nearly $2 billion in…
by Josh Guckert In recent weeks, the media has acted similarly to football officials late in a one-sided game. In those instances, viewers often sense those in black-and-white stripes attempting to throw more flags in favor of the losing team in an attempt to create a more competitive contest and save ratings. Likewise, followers of…
By Ali Motamedi The withdrawal of all US government personnel from Afghanistan marked the end of what is often considered to be one of the least popular wars in American history and, more importantly, the end of a costly decades long nation-building initiative. While the operation was horrifically botched at the expense of American lives,…
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