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Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Use El Chapo’s Drug Money to Fund Border Wall 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2017
Via the Hill: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is introducing a bill to allow assets seized from drug lords, like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to fund President Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Cruz’s bill, the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act, also known as the “El Chapo Act,” is a
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Mike Rowe is Offended by Nordstrom’s $425 Fake Muddy Jeans 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2017
We’ve all seen those torn jeans that upscale stores sell for a couple Benjamin Franklins. Well, Nordstrom’s recently took it a step further. Via Mike Rowe: “This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society. Behold the latest assault from
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‘Adulting’ School is Great – If It Happens in Elementary School 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2017
By now many have heard about the “adulting” school in Maine, which teaches young, college-and-career-age professionals to live responsible and self-sufficient lives. Among the topics covered in adulting school are cooking, household management, and financial basics. Not surprisingly, the adulting school has been met with outrage, not because the American public disapproves of the subjects
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Harvard Poll Finds that Millennials Basically Live in Bubbles 0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
A new poll from Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) reveals that millennials, or people aged 18 to 29, are enclosed in ideological bubbles. Their social and professionals circles are largely segregated along partisan lines: conservatives interact almost exclusively with conservatives, liberals with liberals. Here’s a snapshot of the poll findings: More conservatives know
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Is School Curriculum Preventing Kids from Reading?0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
When I was five, I nabbed the book my mother was reading out loud and used my fledgling phonics to sound out the captions below the pictures. Since then, reading has been one of my favorite pastimes. But when I was in second grade, my English curriculum dictated a unit study on the Beatrix Potter
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The Benefits of Delayed Schooling 0
- Education
- April 25, 2017
If you are one of those parents who decided to delay your child’s schooling, or forgo it altogether, you have plenty of company. According to Education Week, in the years 2008-2010 fewer than half of U.S. children under age five attended preschool, and the number of stay-at-home-parents has been rising over the past decade. Additionally, there are more
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Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Use El Chapo’s Drug Money to Fund Border Wall 0