A North Carolina man who became an internet sensation by speaking at a city council meeting in support of gun rights says he was standing up for freedoms that the nation’s Founders died to give all Americans.
EPA will soon stop relying on “co-benefits” in crafting new regulations, Pruitt said Wednesday. President Donald Trump’s administration would soon stop the “social cost of carbon” estimate from being used crafting regulations. EPA used the metric to justify the Clean Power Plan, which is now slated for repeal.
The number of Los Angeles’ homeless in the past six years greatly increased by 75 percent from 32,000 to 55,000. The number grows to 58,000 if Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach are included in the statistics.
What has been so disappointing has been the silence of the Vermont State Legislature. This body has turned a blind eye at any attempt to determine how Vermont laws might have been ignored. It is only a matter of time before the next sizable real estate project fails.
“I understand I may lose support over the decision to sign these bills today. Those are consequences I’m prepared to live with.”
President Donald Trump in late January offered to grant amnesty to 1.8 million young illegal immigrants brought to the country as minors in exchange for immigration enforcement that included a border wall, adopting a merit-based immigration system, and cracking down on sanctuary cities — issues many Democrats had voted for or voiced support for previously.
Most federal student loan programs do not require a credit check, nor do they require a cosigner. Rather, the loans are backed by nothing more than the borrower’s future earnings with a college degree, but the kind of degree isn’t a consideration in the loan process.
In this Statehouse Headliners, the governor pledges to veto a minimum wage hike, the House approves lawyers to help immigrants in federal courts, the carbon tax is being called ‘market decarbonization,’ and a prostitution bill dies in committee.
Judge William Young held that the AR-15 and similar weapons aren’t protected by the Second Amendment because they were originally designed for military service and because democracy means policymakers are best suited to regulate weapons.
In what many view as a stark about-face, College Republicans across the country are endorsing a carbon tax to address climate change.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spared over political bias and censorship during the Senate’s hearing Tuesday.
Statistics matter, and they can help households, businesses, and governments make informed decisions. But statistics — particularly selective and incomplete ones — can also be misleading, and even detrimental. The pay gap is the perfect example of statistics gone awry.