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Is California Intentionally Making Bad Schools Appear Good?0
- Education
- March 16, 2017
With the increased emphasis on transparency in recent years, it has become easier for parents to get some idea of the quality of education their child is receiving. But while such transparency is good for parents and children, it’s not so great for our country’s education system. Much to the chagrin of Americans across the
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When Euthanasia Becomes Murder0
- Culture
- March 15, 2017
In the Netherlands an elderly woman suffering from dementia was held down against her protests as a lethal injection was administered by a doctor. In the days before her “euthanasia” she repeatedly said, “I don’t want to die.” The doctor was cleared of wrongdoing. Another elderly woman in the Netherlands was euthanized due to her
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Professor: The Reason College Students are ‘Helpless’ is…0
- Culture
- March 15, 2017
In the last year or so, a handful of college faculty have been going public about the problems they see in the latest generation of students. First it was the college president who described his students as “day care” kids victimized over every little offense. This viewpoint was seconded by Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who suggested
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How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer0
- Education
- March 15, 2017
Driving down a country highway in the Midwest can seem an endless ribbon flanked by green walls of corn, neatly planted in stately rows. But who would guess that a plant that feeds a planet might hold clues that could help us better understand, or perhaps cure, insidious human diseases? Recent research from Dr. Mark
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How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular0
- Culture
- March 15, 2017
Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their
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Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever0
- Culture
- March 15, 2017
In the last several years, comedienne Amy Schumer has burst on the national scene and enjoyed a decent amount of success. Like many of today’s comedians, Schumer’s humor capitalizes upon crass and crude subjects, which the Los Angeles Times recently described in the following way: “Schumer’s renown for obliterating narrow ideas about female sexuality, double
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Which States Are the Biggest Moochers?0
- Economics
- March 14, 2017
Since Donald Trump’s election, some leftists have been trotting out analyses showing that many states that voted for Trump are also states where federal spending plays a disproportionately large role in the statewide economy. In other words, many of those states that talk a lot about states rights and less federal government — it is
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Study: Kids Relying on Google to Learn Basic Life Skills0
- Culture
- March 14, 2017
In the last several years, it has become increasingly apparent that many children no longer know how to perform tasks that were once essential to running a household. But while it’s easy to chalk up this deficiency entirely to laziness or lack of interest on the part of kids, a recent European study found that
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New Republic Writer: Blue and Red States Should Go Their Own Ways0
- History
- March 14, 2017
Nearly a week ago in The New Republic, writer Kevin Baker penned an open letter stating that blue and red states should breakup. In the letter, addressed to “Red State Trump voters,” Baker spends about 4,700 words making an intellectual case for progressivism, insulting people who live in West Virginia and rural Arkansas, and explaining why
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