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Entrepreneur: Why I Left the Left 0
- Economics
- March 7, 2017
This past Saturday I drove down to the local gun store in my quaint mountain town to pick up some bismuth shells, just in time for an early morning Sunday hunt. As I perused the impressive selection of bird bashers, a small fracas in my periphery began rising to a twangy crescendo. I rounded a
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Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
Taylor Beggs is a female wrestler in Texas who is “transitioning” to a male. She recently won the state girls wresting championship to the dismay of many of the other girls competing, some of whom dropped out rather than face someone with a competitive advantage. The process in which a person “transitions” from one gender
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Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
AP released a poll this week showing that Americans are deeply divided. Those seeking to better understand why might consider reading Shelby Steele’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, argues that “white guilt” has created in the American system “a mock politics based on the pretense
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The College Textbook Racket 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading
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Which States Spend the Most Per Student?0
- Economics
- March 7, 2017
When it comes to choosing a place to live, most parents select their home with a wary eye cast toward the schools the neighborhood offers. Although it’s not often uttered outright, conventional wisdom suggests that the more expensive your neighborhood – or the more property taxes you pay – the better the schools. But schools
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Legislation Would Reintroduce the Bible to Public Schools 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2017
In 1963, the Supreme Court removed official Bible readings from America’s schools. Since that time, almost everything related to religious or biblical literacy in education has been questioned on grounds of separation of church and state. But one state is questioning the wisdom of this removal. According to U.S. News and World Report, the Kentucky
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