Politics

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-2 decision to uphold Michigan’s affirmative action ban, which prevents the use of race as a factor in college admissions.  Justice Kennedy issued the Court’s opinion, joined by Justices Alito and Chief Justice

A new study suggests that the literary genre of poetry is likely to become endangered in the Common Core-based English classroom due to the dramatic reduction in time spent on literary texts in favor of informational ones, a change that

Brett Hulsey, a Wisconsin state representative and Democratic candidate for governor, thinks he has a surefire way to shoot past his better-funded and better-known primary opponent. He has announced that he intends to hand out homemade KKK hoods to Republican

SEATTLE, May 1 (UPI) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced a plan Thursday that would give the city the highest minimum wage in the United States, $15 an hour. The increase would be phased in and small and large businesses

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed former George W. Bush administration official and first-time candidate Taylor Griffin a week before North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District’s GOP primary, which will be held on Tuesday, May 6.   Griffin, an Eastern North

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Sixty-two students were arrested Thursday after police said they broke into their high school overnight for a senior class prank, urinating in hallways, greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs to lockers. Police said

When does government incompetence turn to government corruption? When the incompetent government officials lie, stonewall, and refuse to obey transparency laws. That is exactly what is happening inside the Obama administration in an attempt to cover up an Obamacare blunder

A family represented by a humanist group is suing a Monmouth County school district, claiming that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is discriminatory because it asks students to use the phrase “under God.” According to NorthJersey.com, the American

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An apparent gas explosion all but destroyed a jail in the Florida Panhandle, killing two inmates and injuring more than 180 people, and officials lost track of three inmates in the chaos, authorities said Thursday. The

At a press conference Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed a new “smoking gun”email about the Obama administration’s response to the Benghaziterrorist attack as “diversion” and “subterfuge.” “I haven’t seen it, but I will say this again–diversion,subterfuge–Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

Home ownership in the U.S. hit a peak in 2005 and began a long slide in 2007 leading into the recession. Currently home ownership is at its lowest rate in 19 years. The Census Bureau released a report Tuesday showing

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released on May 1 shows independent voters overwhelmingly choose Republicans over Democrats on the issue of guns. Published in The Washington Post, the poll asked, “Which political party is closer to your own opinion on

A new study finds that, compared to those whose fathers are not involved in their lives, teens who say they have involved fathers are 98% more likely to graduate from college, and teens with very involved fathers are 105% more

Federal prosecutors are probing yet another Illinois governor, incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn, as reports emerged Thursday that the Department of Justice had asked state officials about his Neighborhood Recovery Initiative Program, which has also been probed by state and local investigations. 

A Louisiana Republican political activist is filing an ethics complaint against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) for filming a campaign advertisement in the Louisiana statehouse. Landrieu made headlines after it was discovered that she re-created and filmed a scene from one

Former Minnesota Governor and failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said that Republicans should support increases in the minimum wage, though he was against the Senate bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.  “If you’re going

A Super PAC launched by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spent upwards of $100,000 on an all-out campaign to sink Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, after the grassroots favorite surged to the front of the race against

On Tuesday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly met with 10 GOP House members in his office to strategize how to combat the push for amnesty in the coming months.  Roll Call reported that Cruz and House Republicans, including Reps.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) believes he can call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” because Thompson, like Thomas, is black.  Thompson initially called Thomas an “Uncle Tom” over the weekend because, he said, his decisions on the Supreme

Memphis imam Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Dean of Academic Affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute, is back in the news this week for a controversial video that he has made saying that Jews and Christians are filthy and that their lives

On Thursday Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) blasted Senate Democrats for their hypocritical “fair shot for everyone” campaign to raise the minimum wage after passing massive amnesty legislation that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined would actually lower the wages of

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said on Thursday that it would be “corrosive” to the House of Representatives if Republicans joined with Democrats to ram through amnesty legislation. Appearing on Bill Bennett’s radio show, Sessions said there are too many rumors

Everyone who practices abortion law in federal court knows about NOW v. Scheidler, the organized crime conspiracy case litigated by the Thomas More Society that has pitted pro-abortion and anti-abortion activists against each other since 1986. Now it’s finally over.

This book review first appeared at The Liberty Fund.  by Jamie Gass, Katherine Apfelbaum Title: Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of SchoolingTranslator / Editor: Frederick M. Hess & Michael Q. McShanePublish Date: 2014Publisher / Edition: Teachers

The Pentagon plans to destroy $1.2 billion in ammunition amid widespread ammo shortages for private citizens. According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report acquired by USA Today, the ammunition is being destroyed because the Pentagon does not know what ammunition

If you’ve lost Louis C.K. and Chuck Norris, have you lost America? Both the acerbic comedian and the action-star-turned-activist have come down hard on the Common Core academic standards, which were once widely hailed as a bipartisan success story but

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued a report Wednesday saying that one-third of people who signed up for health insurance through new federal exchanges hadn’t paid their first month’s premium as of mid-April, which could undermine the Obama administration’s claims

BALTIMORE, May 1 (UPI) —A block-long sinkhole that opened up in a residential neighborhood in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday prompted the evacuation of several houses in the area. The concavity is located around 26th Street & N Charles Street, the

Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added 215,000 jobs in April. A moderate improvement over February and March when the pace averaged 195,000, indicating growth will improve this spring over its tepid winter performance. Still good