The way violence in Israel is covered in the US shows a noticeable slant against the country. Two of my Israeli friends have recently taken to Facebook to protest as much. The video one friend posted shows a Palestinian man plowing into an Israeli bus stop with his car. He then gets...
I’ve often been reminded that you can easily figure out what you really want by examining the choices you tend to make. In economics class, this was called “revealed preferences.” There has been a lot of discussion recently about what some Americans are revealing by moving between states. Politicians ought to...
With the push to defund Planned Parenthood, which might result in a government shutdown, many have started to bring up the old ‘war on women’ as a way to simplify the debate: you’re against women, or you’re for Planned Parenthood. The controversy specifically stems from videos showing Planned Parenthood representatives...
For the many Americans who have limited time to really dig in to the facts and data behind the ‘climate change’ debate, it’s worth about nine minutes of your time to watch this exchange between Aaron Mair, President of the Sierra Club, and US Senator Ted Cruz. Mr. Mair comes across...
Few would dispute that our K-12 schools are failing our students in some way or another. A Pew report shows where the US ranks for test scores in math and science – in the middle of the pack, behind many European and Asian countries.1.Pew Research And about 20% of students show up to...
At Ladies Can We Talk, we support the original tenets of America’s founding and conservative, free-market principles – something not every Republican does consistently. As a result, we sometimes bring up topics on which not every Republican agrees, and this is one of those. Much of the immigration debate has focused on whether or...
[LCWT Note: “Millenials” seem to be a coveted category of voters. As with other voter groups, we doubt whether the thinking attributed to them is as monolithic as the mainstream media and political consultant class would have everyone believe. In fact, the terms “Democrat” and “Republican” may well become obsolete before millennials become seniors....