The lowest-ranking enlisted military members are paid less than fast food workers and many other entry-level employees in the private sector, and they often turn to federal subsidies and local donations to feed their families, according to a House panel.
“Snitches get stitches” is a threat typically made by adolescents to avoid punishment by intimidating those who might expose their misdeeds. Yet it seems Harvard is a glorified junior high these days, with Lawrence Bobo, its dean of social sciences, threatening faculty who publicly criticize the university for its mistreatment of Jewish students. Writing in the Crimson, […]
Conservatives are fighting back against the exploitative pornography industry, but it is becoming a tougher battle every day. Pornhub, the largest pornographic website, announced that it is blocking access in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, and Nebraska by the end of July because those states passed legislation requiring age verification to access adult websites. This means […]
A Department of Homeland Security advisory board has disingenuously asserted that supporters of former President Donald Trump compose “most of the domestic terrorism threat” in documents that implicitly overlook far more important dangers. The patronizing claim inherently disregards the real terrorists who have streamed into our country due to President Joe Biden’s lack of care […]
What if I told you there was a nefarious, convoluted right-wing plot to steal power from Democrats that implicates a president? And what if I told you the power being stolen was from the mayor of Oakland, California, and that the president was Joe Biden? This is the incredible conspiracy theory being put forth by […]
One very simplistic vision of big business and big government has remarkable persistence: the notion that the two are rivals, and that the purpose and effect of regulation is to curb the excesses of big business. Some who repeat this error do so out of ignorance. Others are exploiting such ignorance for advantage. The news […]
In his pretaped State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed that California is the “only state in America with a dream.” And apparently that dream is to leave California because no state saw more of its population leave for other states than California did last year. And the year before that. […]
The surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has overstepped his role as a public health official. On Tuesday, he declared gun violence a public health crisis. “Our failure to address it is a moral crisis,” Murthy said. “To protect the health and wellbeing of Americans, especially our children, we must now act with the clarity, courage, […]
You are not supposed to negotiate with terrorists, but if you are the United Nations, you can sit down and have a nice, pleasant chat with them as they oppress millions of women. U.N. Special Envoy Roza Otunbayeva, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, is holding a meeting with the Taliban and envoys from 22 […]