The National Conference of State Legislatures recently published an analysis which compared the per-capita number of welfare recipients through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program across all U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Unsurprisingly, the results of the study show that people who the government pay to not work overwhelmingly return the favor [...]
Barbara Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush, recently made this video in support of gay marriage. In the video, Barbara states “I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality. New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love.” [...]
Heavy-handed policies of the United States and the European Union are pushing Bosnia towards civil war. Bosnia is ostensibly governed by a coalition of three groups: Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs. The Croats and the Serbs are racial designations, while the Bosniak designation is a religious one. Bosniaks are simply Bosnians whose ancestors converted to Islam [...]
Amnesty International is criticizing Iran for the planned blinding of Majid Mohavedi. The Iranian government plans to tie Majid down and pour acid in his eyes until he is permanently blind. On the surface, that seems unkind. However, let’s look at the full facts. Majid wanted to take a woman named Ameneh Bahrami as a [...]
The United States is broke. We’re worse than broke, we’re in debt — deep in debt. We’re so deep in debt that even if we accept Paul Ryan’s entire budget proposal we won’t have a balanced budget for 26 years and we won’t be back up to just being broke until 2063. Amazingly, Democrats consider [...]
The good news: Millions of American are talking on free cell phones right now. The bad news: You’re paying for it. A couple years ago, Michelle Obama was seen serving risotto at a soup kitchen down the street from the White House. She was surrounded by poor people frantically snapping photos of her with their [...]
