Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Posted on February 27, 2014
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but the underlying trend suggested no shift in labor market conditions. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims for the prior week were revised to show 2,000 fewer […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 27, 2014
An Ohio high school basketball coach resigned this week after a Facebook post by his now ex-girlfriend accused him of cheating and alleged that he was “borderline pedophile.” Jason Stonebraker, a high school basketball coach in Ohio, resigned this week after the school launched an investigation into alleged inappropriate contact with a student. On Monday, […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 21, 2014
13-year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, is one heck of a smart marketer. On Monday, she sold 117 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in two hours. Her locations? Outside a medical marijuana clinic. Moreover, the Green Cross Cannabis Collective was pretty “high” on the idea too: “It’s no secret that cannabis is […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 21, 2014
A Georgia family is in shock following the death of their 17-year-old son, who was accidentally killed by a police officer who believed the video game controller he was holding was a gun, according to the family’s lawyer. Christopher Roupe of Euharlee, Georgia heard a knock at the door of the family’s home last Friday […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 21, 2014
A 23-year-old New York woman was fired from her job at McDonald’s after she bought breakfast for a group of firefighters in her community. Heather Levia, a mother of twins who was working two jobs to put herself through nursing school, said she knew the firefighters had been working in sub-zero temperatures. A New York […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on February 21, 2014
In June of 2013, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Maryland vs. King dealt a potentially fatal blow to the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court’s decision held that when a suspect is arrested for a serious offense and is brought to the police station for booking that a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is allowable. […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 19, 2014
Tesla Motors, Inc., its stock trading at an all-time high, releases fourth-quarter results Wednesday after the market’s close. Analysts surveyed by FactSet see it earning 22 cents a share, sharply reversing a year-ago loss. Those same analysts see it posting revenue of $679 million for the quarter, more than doubling the $306 million reported a […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 19, 2014
After failing to return multiple requests for comment Monday, USC spokesman Wes Hickman told TheBlaze in a statement Tuesday that the school is “committed to academic freedom and a vigorous public discourse.” “Our faculty are free to select texts for their courses and our students are encouraged to raise questions, challenge convention and develop their […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 19, 2014
Move over Bill Nye and Ken Ham. There’s a new public debate over cosmology and God’s role in the universe — and it’s set to unfold this weekend between atheist physicist Sean Carroll and theologian William Lane Craig. The debate, titled “God and Cosmology: The Existence of God in Light of Modern Cosmology,” will be […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 18, 2014
In an “interview” with the President before the NBA All-Star game, journalist former basketball player Charles Barkley lobbed softball after softball at Obama about the Affordable Care Act and the importance of signing up. Unbiased and hard-hitting! But although it appears to an average viewer that the direction of the interview was predetermined (and possibly […]
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