I remember campus protests when I was in school. They were small-scale mostly, protesting for higher wages for dining staff. Once or twice they got larger, like when Condi or President Bush visited and people had turned against the Iraq war. I was never a part...
Most arguments surrounding the horrifying attacks in Paris on November 13th have focused on what is to be done to prevent more. The hardest question is how to defeat ISIS and defend its Syrian and Iraqi victims without swelling the group’s ranks. But it struck me...
We’ve heard a lot recently about the student loan crisis. Politicians running for President are essentially required to have a plan to address it – with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wanting to spend $350-$500 billion with a B to solve it over four years...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
[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...