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Avery Gagliano — a piano prodigy and truant. Yes, the 13-year-old musical genius, who was chosen to join 11 other musicians from around the world to play in Munich last year, playing this masterpiece… … is also a truant in the eyes of the D.C. public school system. In March, Avery traveled to Connecticut for…
Congress has just returned from a 5-week recess to a lot of unfinished business—it has yet to send even one of the 12 spending bills due on Sept. 30 to the president’s desk. A new report by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and Our Generation reveals that members of Congress take home a big paycheck for…
Fox News host Megyn Kelly talked Monday to Judge Andrew Napolitano about a grand jury investigation into a whether a mosque located in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minn., is involved in recruitment for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
We’re not all that surprised when weather predictions for next week—or even tomorrow—don’t pan out. So when the United Nations seeks to drum up support for this month’s Climate Summit by posting videos of “weather reports from the future” to show us what weather will look like in 2050 if we don’t change our carbon-emitting…
How many adults does it take to tackle a girl standing only 4’10” tall and weighing just 100 pounds? Well, at Sam Houston High School the answer appears to be three. Ixel Perez is that girl. She is a 10th grade student at Sam Houston High School in Texas who claims three school resource officers…
Entrepreneurship matters. It fosters discovery and innovation. Entrepreneurs also engage in the creative destruction of existing technologies, economic institutions, and business production or management techniques by replacing them with new and better ones. Start-up businesses account for most of the new job creation in the economy. Entrepreneurs innovate, providing consumers with new or better products….
In an interview just days before the 227th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, former attorney general Edwin Meese III issued a sharp rebuke of President Obama and his administration’s actions. “This is the most lawless administration in the history of the country,” Meese told The Daily Signal. After serving in the Reagan administration, Meese went…
Amazing what a difference another video makes… The Baltimore Ravens announced today via twitter that they “have terminated RB Ray Rice’s contract.” And the National Football Leagues says he has been indefinitely suspended. The #Ravens have terminated RB Ray Rice’s contract this afternoon. — Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) September 8, 2014 About time. Actually, past time…
Cosmopolitan magazine is getting serious this year. For the first time ever, the racy women’s reader will be endorsing candidates for office in their #CosmoVotes campaign. .@Cosmopolitan spits in the face of democracy & insults readers’ intelligence. As a dedicated subscriber of women’s magazines from Marie Claire to Women’s Health, I’m well aware of how…
Eyewitness accounts of the Benghazi attack—broadcast by Fox News over the weekend—have now publicly and directly contradicted the official account as shaped by the State Department, the White House and even the House Intelligence Committee. During a Fox News special that aired over the weekend, three CIA security staffers posted to Benghazi told reporter Bret…
Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, a popular quick-service chicken restaurant, died this morning. He was 93. Cathy was a hard worker who had a knack for innovative ideas on how to improve his craft in a competitive industry. According to its website, Chick-fil-A, with more than 1,800 locations in 39 states and Washington, D.C.,…
Kate Middleton is known for setting trends with her outfit selections. But she’s really bucking the current societal patterns with her announcement today: She and Prince William are expecting their second child. In the United States today, the average birth rate per woman is 1.9, according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2014 Index of Culture and…
MetLife appears to be losing its battle with the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), but the life insurance company is not about to go down without a fight. The FSOC has now voted to designate MetLife for special regulation by the Federal Reserve, a process that identifies the company as a so-called systemically important financial…
When the Senate reconvenes today, the No.1 legislative priority of Democrats is to pass a resolution that would gut the First Amendment, one of the few times in American history an amendment has been proposed to cut back on part of the Bill of Rights. It’s probably no surprise they want to restrict political speech…
Recent reports of foreign fighters from Europe and the U.S. in Syria and Iraq have caused speculation regarding the security of the U.S.’s Visa Waiver Program (VWP). While there have been concerns regarding the security measures of supplementary VWP requirements and lack of information sharing, these worries are outdated. The program as a whole has…
S. Truett Cathy, the founder of the fast-food restaurant chain known for its boneless chicken sandwiches, waffle fries, staunch support for traditional marriage and conservative business plan, died early Monday. He passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones. He was 93. Cathy opened his first restaurant in 1946 with his brother in the…
Castro’s Cuba, America’s sworn enemy in our hemisphere, is exploiting the breach between academia and the nation. An unclassified FBI advisory published Sept. 2 was clear on the subject: “The Cuban intelligence services (CuIS) are known to actively target the US academic world for the purposes of recruiting agents, in order to both obtain useful…
The House is expected to vote on legislation as soon as Tuesday that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from moving forward with their proposed "waters of the U.S." rule. In April, the EPA and Corps proposed regulation that would define what waters that they can regulate under the Clean Water Act. …
In North Carolina, the number of homeschoolers has now surpassed the number of students attending private schools. That statistic may seem shocking if you’ve been a stranger to the growth of the homeschooling movement, which has rapidly increased in recent decades. In 1973, there were approximately 13,000 children, ages 5 to 17, being homeschooled in…
Start-up companies are the reason America’s economy is more innovative, prosperous and dynamic than the economies of other industrialized countries around the world. New companies create roughly 3 million jobs every year, while existing companies tend to shed 1 million jobs. It is no secret why a healthy entrepreneurial culture is important. Think of it this…