Commentary

~~by Steve Klein~~Wyoming Liberty Group~~ Jim McBride, former Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction, told a fascinating and shocking story Oct. 8 while testifying in favor of the Common Core State Standards before the State Board of Education...

~~By Micah Halpern~~ Next week in Geneva (on October 15th and 16th) a conference will take place between Iran and the world powers about the current nuclear impasse. In discussing the matter, the Iranian speaker of the parliament, who is also their former nuclear negotiator, gave a recipe for predicting the success or failure of the meetings...

~By Jim Kouri~ The calls for a DOJ inquiry into the Trayvon Martin case make organizations like the ACLU choose between pursuing racial justice and opposing double jeopardy. Civil rights and civil liberties often go hand-in-hand, but what happens when they collide...

~~By Frosty Wooldridge~~ Just when you think our cities cannot become more crowded, our air more polluted, our highways more gridlocked, our schools more crunched, and our impending water shortages more critical in seven states—Congress expects to jump legal immigration from 1...

Every time I think I have seen just about the dumbest decisions ever made regarding road construction in our fair city, sure enough, something new convinces me otherwise. Case in point...the milling and resurfacing projects now simultaneously under way on Central and Warren Avenues between East Pershing Blvd...

~~By Ernie Goss Ph.D. ~~ Mountain States Job Index Sinks for September: Affordable Care Act Having Large Negative Impacts September survey results at a glance: ·         Regional index declines to a weak but positive reading...

by Donna Garner   On Monday, 9.30.13, Obama stated, “The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can't shut it down…”     Other pundits have picked up the same chant so as to make the Republicans’ efforts to defund Obamacare look foolish and stupid since obviously Obamacare will keep right on moving ahead anyway.   Is ...

~~~By Steven Klein, Wyoming Liberty Group~~~ Over the last few days Jon Gibson of Somers, N.Y., launched an Internet sensation after photographing the theft of a political sign from his yard. The sign simply stated “Repeal the Safe Act...

~~By Amy Edmonds~~Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced this week that Florida would be pulling out of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), one of two federally funded testing consortiums created to assess the Common Core State Standards ...

I just received this information in a press release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. " Orders placed today under Project BioShield contracts will increase the national stockpile of leukocyte growth factors, a treatment for acute radiation syndrome...