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Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 4, 2018
Yesterday, jurors convicted former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods on 15 felony counts consisting of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Woods was at the center of a corrupt scheme to reward cronies at Ecclasia College and AmeriWorks with GIFs — state General Improvement Funds — in return…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: September 12, 2017
Virginia’s odd-year elections this November 7th offer the nation’s premier race for governor, pitting Republican Ed Gillespie against Democrat Ralph Northam . . . . . . oh, and also Libertarian Cliff Hyra. Could it be a repeat of four years ago? In 2013, notable Friend-of-Bill and Democratic Party nominee…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 15, 2019
The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States;…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: September 22, 2015
The Washington Post headline, “Black teachers flee schools, leading to concerns about diversity,” left me less concerned about “diversity” and more with why teachers — black or otherwise — would “flee.” A study by an institute funded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) looked at nine large cities —…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: September 23, 2019
One of the better arguments for government relies upon sobriety: we want rational, measured responses to threats, not panicky, hot-headed reactions. We have a rule of law to prevent revenge and vendetta, replacing them with justice and civil order. But when we expand the concept of “threat” far beyond interpersonal…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 19, 2019
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its awards, the presenters say, “And the Oscar goes to . . .” We should hand out an award for lying in government — and name it after President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. On March 12,…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: June 24, 2019
“I love my students so much,” a protesting teacher in Hong Kong told a BBC reporter, wiping tears from her eyes. “I worry about they cannot have the freedom we have before. They cannot speak what they want to speak like us. So, I don’t want . . . this.”…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: March 18, 2014
How do you turn a fine, upstanding, conscientious and goal-driven young man into a terrorist? By fiat. That is, by treating him like a terrorist. That is, treating him very badly. Drop the whole weight of the law on him . . . for holding the wrong opinions. What opinions?…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: July 15, 2021
“How is this not a subject of bigger concern in the country?” Emily Jashinsky asked last week on The Hill’s morning TV program, Rising. Hunter Biden’s “addiction and dysfunction are the public’s problems, too,” explained Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, “given that Hunter was wrapped up in an influence-peddling…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 23, 2021
Bravely risking damage and scorn, San Francisco engaged in a grand sociological experiment: testing whether or not we might all be better off “essentially ‘legalizing shoplifting.’” Before announcing the conclusion of this daring research, let’s review. “Shoplifting cases are all too common in San Francisco,” explained the UK’s Daily Mail,…