SocietyNews
Arizona County Weighs Hiring Ban on Smokers for Government Jobs
One Arizona county may be closing its doors on smokers today. Pima County, home of Tucson, is voting on a proposal that bans county offices… Read More
SocietyNews
Virginia Farmer Hopes to Get Conservation Group Off Her Back
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta’s desire to have an environmental conservation group replaced as overseer of her property has moved a step closer to reality. Officials… Read More
SocietyNews
After Debate, Massachusetts Town Won’t Ban All Sales of Tobacco
Smokers and nonsmokers alike in Westminster, Mass., came together to push back against a move by the town’s board of health to ban the sale… Read More
SocietyNews
Why Is John Stossel Always So Cynical? We Caught Up With Him to Find Out
Wondering how libertarians view the world? The Daily Signal caught up with John Stossel, host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network, to hear how… Read More
LawNews
Watch This Local TV News Reporter Turn the Tables on a Squatter
Squatting, the practice of occupying a house you don’t own, is a problem in downtrodden Detroit. But when Charlie LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter at Detroit’s Fox… Read More
LawNews
Outdoors Foundation’s Offer Could End Farmer’s Dispute With Green Group Over Property Rights
RICHMOND – Martha Boneta’s eight-year battle with an environmental group over a conservation easement on her farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country moved closer to resolution… Read More
LawNews
Breakthrough Eyed in Farmer’s Property Rights Dispute With Green Group
Martha Boneta’s years of struggle with a powerful conservation group could come to the beginning of an end this week. Boneta owns the 64-acre Liberty Farm… Read More
SocietyNews
A Massachusetts Town May Ban All Tobacco Sales
A Massachusetts town might become the first in the nation to ban all tobacco sales, according to the Boston Globe. Westminster, Mass. is a town… Read More
SocietyNews
Man Ordered By City to Remove Most of U.S. Flags Hung at His Business
In one Texas town, a business owner is in trouble for displaying too much patriotism. Andre “Frenchy” Rheault, who owns a landscaping company based in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Sugar Is Evil and Other Silly Claims in the Obesity Wars
Don’t go blaming willpower for the obesity epidemic–that’d be a “crime” according to the documentary “Fed Up,” by the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” Laurie… Read More
SocietyNews
As His Wife Delivers Their Baby, LGBT Group Smears This Pro-Marriage Professor as International Criminal
Having a baby is supposed to be one of the happiest moments of your life. But for Bobby Lopez, an unusual figure in the marriage… Read More
Commentary
What We Should Learn from Watching Hong Kong Demonstrations
No matter how adventurous your teenage years were, chances are you had nothing on Joshua Wong. Labeled “a threat” an “extremist” and “an infiltrate” by… Read More
EnergyNews
City Imposes Fine on Residents Who Throw Away Food
The Seattle City Council has imposed a mandatory composting ordinance, requiring all residents to separate their biodegradable trash from other kinds of refuse. The city… Read More
SocietyNews
University Reconsiders Questionnaire About Students’ Sex Lives
Officials at Western New Mexico University say a controversial questionnaire that sparked complains elsewhere in the country because it asked students about their sex lives and drinking habits will… Read More
EducationNews
S.C. High School Apologizes for Forcing Students to Remove American Flags on 9/11
Administrators at a South Carolina high school confiscated American flags from students’ trucks on 9/11 as part of a rule preventing students from calling “an… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why the Washington Post Is Right to Oppose Legalized Pot in D.C.
In a refreshing move, The Washington Post came out against legalizing pot in the District of Columbia in an editorial this weekend. The Post supported… Read More
SocietyNews
Virginia School Bans Chapstick
A school board in Virginia got an earful from one of its students last week over its ban on lip balm. Last winter, Grace Karaffa,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Michelle Obama Shouldn’t Decide What Your Child Eats
The primary focus of the federal school meal programs should be meeting students’ needs. But for that to happen, there must be recognition that parents… Read More
SocietyNews
Teens Who Smoke Pot Daily 60 Percent Less Likely to Graduate From High School
Teens who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to graduate from high school than their peers who never use, according to a… Read More
SocietyNews
Philly Set to Change Penalty for Having Small Amount of Pot to $25 Fine
Soon, the city of brotherly love could be the largest American city to decriminalize marijuana. On Monday, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced a potential agreement… Read More
SocietyNews
Why ‘Holly Hobby Lobby’ Changed Her Mind About Owning Guns
Holly Fisher, a mom of three from West Virginia, never thought she would be a gun owner. But when her husband joined the military in… Read More
SocietyNews
Area Residents Take to the Streets of Ferguson. But Not for the Reason You Think.
St. Louis County residents who wanted their voices to be heard decided to show up in Ferguson, Mo. Their goal: To give some much-needed business to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
7 Harmful Side Effects Pot Legalization Has Caused in Colorado
There is more bad news out of Colorado regarding the negative impact of marijuana legalization. As I reported a few weeks ago, some professors published… Read More
LawNews
Can You Stop an Assessor From Entering Your Home?
A Dover, Wis., couple has filed a lawsuit in state court in which they allege their property was assessed in 2013 at an “excessive, arbitrary… Read More
SocietyNews
Q&A: Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift, Government Overreach, and ‘The Giver’
For 14 years, film producer Micheal Flaherty made it his mission to bring “The Giver,” Lois Lowry’s award-winning 1994 novel, to the big screen. Flaherty, president and co-founder… Read More
LawNews
Florida Mom Could Face 5 Years in Prison for Allowing Son to Play Unsupervised
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida law enforcement came down hard on a single mother last week for the crime of letting her 7-year-old son play at a neighborhood… Read More
SocietyNews
Progressive Leader Outlines Plan to ‘Take Down’ Free-Market State Policy Groups
The recent Netroots Nation gathering, billed as a “giant family reunion for the left,” included a directive from one leader of a progressive state policy… Read More
SocietyNews
Christian Mom Sentenced to Death in Sudan Arrives in Italy, Meets Pope Francis
After spending several harrowing months in Sudan, Meriam Ibrahim Ishag, the mother of two who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Do We Save Baseball From Extinction?
Let me begin by saying I love baseball. I grew up playing whiffle ball nearly every summer afternoon in a vacant lot in suburban Chicago,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Holder Claimed Some Americans Oppose Him Because of ‘Racial Animus’
Were you aware that your opposition to Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama is due at least in part because of your “racial animus,”… Read More
