Senator Bernie Sanders wants to protect low-income Americans at the expense of the planet's poorest people, but there's not much evidence his plan would work. Alex Nowrasteh comments.
Doesn’t Child Protective Services exist to protect children against abuse? Former Child Protective Services investigator Carlos Morales tears down the institution’s benign facade, and discusses the truth about its methods and activities, in this compelling discussion. About the Guest Carlos Morales is a former Child Protective Services investigator, president and founder of Child Protective Services Victim ...
The truth about the death of Samuel DuBose at the hands of Ray Tensing in Cincinnati might never have come to light if not for Tensing's own body camera. Matthew Feeney comments.
Would an emphasis on character education give rise to political leaders who value liberty? or does liberty allow character to emerge? Foundation for Economic Education President Lawrence W. Reed comments.
David Cameron has made a speech about Islamic State and integration but Gaunty is not impressed! How come the MSM has not picked up on the Australian TV programme about child abuse. And sepp Blatter has been showered in money...
As the nights start, noticeably, to draw in and despite the occasional heat our thoughts turn to winter and the coming yuletide season – only twenty-three Fridays to Christmas, don’t you know – it’s easy to write off the year as almost done. But as the world turns and the big events fill our media horizons we forget at our peril that the real meaning of life and all its mysteries lies much closer to home…
As you can probably tell from the title of his book, Alex Epstein is not a man with conventional views. A small business owner from California with a background in moral philosophy, Epstein has set out to defend as good something that, in modern society, is almost universally regarded as an evil: our continued and expanding usage of fossil fuel energy...
Tim Montgomerie is joined by Richard Fletcher and Roger Boyes to discuss Greece and its future in the European Union. Subscribe via iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/did-you-read
This may well be the only article posted here this week as Puddlecote Inc is going through a major reorganisation. I've been with Reed this afternoon discussing recruitment of two new specialist transport roles to handle a large uptick in fortunes which led to the best results in the company's 20 year history last year. We're also commissioning architects to expand our office space until we can source suitable new premises. All very exciting but it tends take chunks out of my fun time...
Chancellor George Osborne made a surprise announcement in Wednesday's budget of a new national living wage of £7.20 from next April. "Britain does have a low-pay problem," he told Today. "It’s a country… that has not been productive enough. "We have a welfare system that is unsustainable."
This morning (July 9th) I was watching BBC World just after 6:00 a.m., in the Ibis Hotel in Strasbourg, to be greeted by the cheerful news that the world is facing its sixth mass extinction event (the fifth, 60 million years ago, saw the extinction of the dinosaurs)...
Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and publisher Jürgen Todenhöfer, who embarked on one of the most hazardous journeys imaginable for a western journalist. Last December, the 74-year-old German spent 10 days inside the territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State movement. He was taken to the group's base in Raqqa, Syria, and then to their most highly prized asset in Iraq - the northern city of Mosul. He emerged unscathed with a remarkable story. What motivates the jihadist fighters? (Photo: Jürgen Todenhöfer)
In December 2012 Prime Minister, David Cameron, told Parliament that “We will never support a European Army”. But under a deal reached in Brussels earlier that month, leaders of all 27 EU member states, including David Cameron, had promised to ‘strengthen’ Europe’s ability to deploy troops ‘rapidly and effectively in any future crisis’...
Let's stop pussyfooting around we are at WAR. We might not be fighting them on the Beaches as Churchill said but the Islamic State have decided to slaughter us on the beaches of Tunisia...
We are pleased to release episode two of LA Questions. We hope to continue to receive excellent questions through Facebook, Twitter, email, or in the comments section below, for the next episode in two weeks’ time. Enjoy.
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