The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which promotes the city's tourism and events, fired an employee who argued in a wrongful termination lawsuit that his only crime was wearing a Trump t-shirt, WBTV reported.
"It’s this whole cancel culture and some people can have their beliefs at work, other people can’t,"...
(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) Hunting, breeding livestock, even pest control would be all but illegal under a ballot initiative backed by Oregon animal rights activists and opposed by incensed Oregon farmers.
The proposal, Initiative Petition 13, would lift virtually all exemptions to state laws related to animal abuse, neglect and sexual...
(Headline USA) Law enforcement officials say the first few days of this year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally have been among the busiest they've seen, despite constant COVID-19 fear-mongering from the corporate media, health bureaucrats, and elected officials.
Some 700,000 people were expected to celebrate their enthusiasm for motorcycles at the 10-day...
A new survey of government spending on homelessness in the Denver area says that the money spent on homeless people exceeds the money spent on students in the area by as much as five times, while also exceeding the money spent on public safety and veterans.
Denver spends more than...
The largest teachers union in the United States sued a Rhode Island mother on Monday and again on Thursday because she seeks more than 200 records about critical race theory and gender ideology at her child's school.
The National Education Association Rhode Island claims in the lawsuit filed on Monday...
(Associated Press) CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
CNN chief Jeff Zucker told staff members of the firing in a memo sent Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were mandatory if they report to the office or out in...
(Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigations) Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice president, John C. Calhoun, to North Carolina...
(Headline USA) Two Democrats who have been supportive of Facebook's censorship of conservative dissenters expressed their 'concern' about the company's suppression of left-wing research into its advertising algorithms.
Facebook shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through...
I've never been a great fan of the Olympics---that quadrennial parade of fleeting patriotism for mostly unfamiliar sports, involving athletes who will, even in the best-case scenario of winning the gold, fade back into irrelevance after their 15 minutes have passed.
The growing politicization (and likely corruption) of the games,...
(Headline USA) The party for the nation's 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends.
Former president Barack Obama has scaled back his 60th birthday bash set for this weekend at his opulent Martha's Vineyard home off the Massachusetts coast after a public backlash on social media...
(Kerry McDonald, Foundation for Economic Education) On Monday, the Massachusetts Teachers Union unanimously voted to endorse mandatory mask-wearing for all students in preschool through college, calling on the governor to issue a mask order.
Teachers unions have recently advocated for required school masking in other states as well, and the head...
While Olympic athletes in Tokyo are going for the gold, investors are going for anything that might provide positive real returns.
In a yield-starved environment where bonds and cash are returning less than inflation, there are no guarantees. But there are certainly opportunities outside of fixed income instruments.
Investors who try...