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David Welch: The Man Who Slayed California Tenure

Behind the conservative’s dream-come-true victory of tenure laws and union contracts for California’s public schools teachers being ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Los Angeles Superior Court, is an organization called Students Matter. The group is led and funded by Silicon Valley

David Welch: The Man Who Slayed California Tenure

We Aren't the World: Why America Resists Soccer Imperialism

Demonstrative enthusiasm for European football stands as a popular passive-aggressive way that Americans announce their superiority vis-à-vis the rubes next door. Like smallpox, Nazism, and Cliff Richard, soccer is something that Europeans should have kept to themselves. We’ll instead take

We Aren't the World: Why America Resists Soccer Imperialism

Japan PM Vows to Continue Whale Hunting Policy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday that he was committed to restarting Japan’s controversial commercial whale hunting program, despite the UN denouncing the policy and demanding Tokyo stop the killings immediately. The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Japan PM Vows to Continue Whale Hunting Policy

Bowe Bergdahl's Homecoming Rally Cancelled

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s hometown of Hailey, Idaho canceled the rally that was planned for later this month to celebrate his release from five years of Taliban/Haqqani captivity. The cancellation comes in the wake of serious allegations made by former

Arizona Singer of Cartel Songs Murdered in Mexico

33-year-old Tomas Eduardo Tovar, a performer from the U.S. known for singing about the drug trade, was shot in Mexico on May 29. According to the AFP, Tovar was a singer of “narco-corridos,” a music genre dedicated to glorifying the drug trade and narcotics trafficking.

Arizona Singer of Cartel Songs Murdered in Mexico

U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22%

After five years of the federal government telling the public that despite a $3.5 trillion increase in monetary expansion, the inflation rate is below +2%, the Department of Agriculture (DOA) just warned the American public that the consumer price index

U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22%

Mark Cuban runs afoul of the Thought Police

If memory serves correctly, Mark Cuban was one of the people made a bit uneasy by the Donald Sterling auto-da-fe, wondering where the crusade against impure thoughts would end.  Well, now he knows it doesn’t end with him.  Reuters reports:

Vietnam and Philippines Unite against China

On May 21, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam and the Philippines will stand together against “illegal” Chinese activities in the South China Sea. According to the AP, Dung and President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines stood together

Vietnam and Philippines Unite against China

FCC proposes not-entirely-neutral Net Neutrality rules

Hardcore “Net Neutrality” advocates won’t be very happy with the rules proposed by the FCC today, since as Reuters reports, the rules “may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to

LeBron Doesn't Play If Sterling Allowed to Stay

The vice president of the National Basketball Players Association told interviewer Jim Rome that the NBA’s marquee player will sit if the NBA’s pariah owner doesn’t quit.  “I was just in the locker room three or four days ago,” Derrick

LeBron Doesn't Play If Sterling Allowed to Stay

Chinese Blogger Arrested for Reporting Police Brutality

The Chinese government arrested Xiang Nanfu, a “senior reporter” on the New York-based website Boxun.com, for publishing stories about the government that “seriously harm the country’s image,” according to Xinhua. Xiang is accused of writing stories of police brutality, government

Chinese Blogger Arrested for Reporting Police Brutality