By Michael Bastasch Published: March 16, 2015 Former Vice President Al Gore is done with presenting global warming as the ultimate doomsday scenario, instead he’s trying to reinvent himself as a “prophet of possibility,” according to The New York Times. Gore has made a name for himself sounding the alarm on man-made global warming since the release of…
by Riley Flaherty Net Neutrality, Title II, “free and open” internet. These political buzzwords have been consuming the public narrative in the wake of the FCC’s decision to reclassify the internet under new regulatory guidelines. But what exactly is Title II? And what is Net Neutrality for that matter? From a technical standpoint, it’s quite…
Millenials Falling Behind In Critical Subject Areas Millennials have been unfairly slapped with numerous labels that fail to explain reality such as the “entitlement generation”. New research on millennials shows that we are in fact falling behind in literacy, mathematics, and problem solving. Baby boomers should not take these findings as confirmation of their truncated…
By R. Brownell #1. Trail of Tears Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat to occupy the White House, really hated Native American Indians. Whether you were Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, or Cherokee, Old Hickory was an equal opportunity hater. In order to make room for the massively expanding cotton market in the south, President Jackson signed the Indian…
This year’s White Privilege Conference “WPC” has started out in a very controversial fashion. Labeling members of the Tea Party as “screw-loosers” and “bald-faced racists, president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights Leonard Zeskind made his thoughts about the Tea Party very clear on the first day of this year’s White…
By Ivan Plis An unusual rumor spread in Russia this week, amid a flurry of canceled appearances by President Vladimir Putin: that he was seriously ill or even dead. First of all, we should say Putin made an appearance early Friday, perhaps to quell the rumors, because up until that point his entire country was beginning to wonder…
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill which would end government licensing of marriages. Rep. Todd Russ (R-Cordell) introduced the bill to relieve county court clerks of their duty to officiate marriage ceremonies, as some clerks have moral objections to same-sex marriage. However, under the proposed legislation, citizens no longer need clerks for…
By Jonah Bennett Republican Sen. Dean Heller announced Wednesday that he’s adding his name to proposed legislation to legalize medical marijuana on the federal level for states with medical marijuana programs. Sens. Rand Paul, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand proposed the legislation on Tuesday. In a press release announcing his decision, Heller stated, “The time has come for the…
Since the advent of online streaming, Americans are moving away from TV faster than ever, according to new research by Nielsen. As Claire Atkinson aptly wrote in her piece published the New York Post, “Netflix, Amazon and Hulu Plus are no longer just nibbling away at the fringes of the pay-TV business — they’re eating its lunch.” The…
#1. “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” We limited government types love to quote this one, but Jefferson never said it. Monticello’s website lists the earliest known appearance as being printed in 1913 by John Sharp Williams. They think that the reason people quote this is…