Organization Hightlight: 2ndVote
2ndVote educates consumers to make informed decisions that align their dollars with their values, empowering them to impact corporate/organization activism.
Family Outings Are Increasingly Out of Reach
With the inflation rate reaching 9.1%, the largest annual increase since November 1981, it’s becoming a bigger financial commitment for families to enjoy their favorite summer actives, such as, attend a baseball game, a movie, or Disneyland.
Lincoln Network opens applications for Policy Hackers
Fellowship program for tech professionals interested in building expertise in the theory and practice of public policy.
What Are Parents’ Rights in Education?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed the Parental Rights in Education bill (HB1557). The bill prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade.
PragerU: What Is Inflation?
Look for the source of a society’s collapse, and you’ll usually find the i-word (inflation) at its core. So what exactly is inflation? How does it work? Why is it so dangerous? And how does it affect your everyday life? Steve Forbes breaks it down.
Post-Roe in America
On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision to the constitutional right to have an abortion.
Elon Musk Threatens to Shut Down Twitter Deal
After offering to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk is threatening to back out of the deal due to a much bigger bot problem than originally disclosed.
Elon Musk’s critics are right: This is the end of Twitter as we know it.
Elon Musk, the eccentric owner of Tesla, is purchasing Twitter for $44 billion. Musk has often been an outspoken critic of the censorship at Twitter, as conservatives are silenced and deplatformed
PragerU: How Much Energy Will the World Need?
Are we heading toward an all-renewable energy future, spearheaded by wind and solar? Or are those energy sources wholly inadequate for the task? Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Cloud Revolution, compares the energy dream to the energy reality.
Your friendly neighborhood roughneck
Oil field workers go by lots of different names, but they are all at the end of the day people. Fathers. Mothers. Sons. Daughters. Neighbors.
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Changes to Denver DMV schedules start Monday as part of city’s immigrant response plan
Rotating closures and other changes at Denver Department of Motor Vehicle offices start Monday and will continue through the rest of the year.
Leading Trans Medical Org Scrubs Website of Child Gender-Transition Guidance after Exposé
The leading world medical organization devoted to transgender health care deleted guidance urging invasive interventions for child gender dysphoria from its website after internal documents revealed that its members had doubts about the safety and efficacy of the approach.
How you tax is almost as important as how much you tax
People skeptical of government overreach often look at a policy proposal and ask whether it reduces the amount of money the government has. If so, then it limits the government’s power and is a good idea.
San Francisco Votes for Police, Drug Tests; ‘Progressivism Is Out’
Voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures on Super Tuesday that expanded police powers, required drug screening for welfare recipients, and reduced restrictions on commercial real estate development — a massive defeat for the left.
EXPOSED: Abortion In America Series, The DC Five, Episode 4: Enacting Justice for the Five
Abortion In America Series, The DC Five, Episode 4: Enacting Justice for the Five
Proven Results: Highlighting the Benefits of Charter Schools for Students and Families
In 2002, I became a fifth-grade teacher at the lowest-performing public school in the South Bronx, New York City’s lowest-performing school district. A mere 16 percent of PS 277 students could read at grade level. The first charter schools were just opening up in the neighborhood back then; there were virtually no alternatives to the schools that had failed children for decades.
Biden hails crime decrease, but the numbers tell a more violent story
President Biden plans to celebrate large drops in crime during his State of the Union address on Thursday, but that doesn’t reflect the experiences of people in cities such as the District of Columbia, Memphis, Tennessee and Dallas.
Homicides are down 35% in this Chicago neighborhood. What’s going on?
How did a pastor in Chicago’s South Side get gang members to lay down their weapons? He asked them to.
Register for one or more of the many great events coming up at the Heritage Foundation
Register for one or more of the many great events coming up at the Heritage Foundation
Why Putin’s Going Big With Nuke Threats — and Why We Need to Be Ready
Russian President Vladimir Putin lies.
With abandon, ecstatically.
“There are no Russian troops in Crimea!” he said as spetsnaz units were occupying the peninsula in March 2014.
“Russia will never start a war on Ukraine!” he repeated virtually up to the invasion two years ago.
Putin’s annual state-of-Russia address last week was no different. (Moscow is “not the one who started the war in Donbas,” the Kremlin’s master said.)
Bidenomics Is Bad Economics
Praise for Bidenomics from some media sources might lead people to believe our economic situation has never been better. What most Americans are experiencing is far less rosy. Inflation is no longer just a buzzword whispered in economic circles. It’s a harsh reality hammering the wallets of Americans.
Abandoning Ukraine Now Will Shred America’s Global Credibility — and Highlight Short-Lived US Promises
Just how long is “as long as it takes?”
Unless the House of Representatives surprises us upon its return to Washington next week with a vote on the supplemental bill providing military assistance to Ukraine, we may soon know the answer: less than two years.