What's the matter with Kansas? Republicans are suddenly worried about the special election in Kansas' 4th congressional district. Ron Estes is running for the seat Mike Pompeo vacated to head the CIA.[...]
Like many of our readers at The National Pulse, I have been following the United Airlines story obsessively. If you are somehow living under a rock and don’t know the details, here are the cliffnotes:[...]
Years after former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put soda in the nation’s crosshairs with a proposed ban on large beverages, soft drinks are once again being targeted by nanny-state politicians looking for an excuse to raise your taxes. But this time, their efforts are even more absurd.[...]
Ordinarily, I would thank Pulitzer board and congratulate Peggy Noonan on learning that she has been awarded a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize "[f]or rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns."[...]
A teen who sued a Virginia school board for the right to use the boys' bathroom was compared on Friday to civil rights activists by appeals court Judge Andre M. Davis. According to Davis, 17-year-old Gavin Grimm is as much a champion as the Virginia couple that fought to legalize interracial marriage as well as others who, in the same way, “refused to accept quietly the injustices that were perpetrated against them.”[...]
Last April, Target adopted a new nationwide store policy -- allowing customers to use any bathroom or changing room corresponding to their "gender identity" -- subsequently sparking a huge controversy across the country. While large numbers of liberals and the LGBT community praised the department store chain for its progressive policy, many regular shoppers found the new policy troublesome, citing fears of predators entering the bathrooms which women and young girls used.[...]
Country music legend Charlie Daniels isn't exactly afraid of weighing in on politics.[...]
Claremont McKenna College was clearly trying to do a lot of things right. They invited Manhattan Institute scholar and journalist Heather Mac Donald to make a substantive case that cops are not racists and that the Black Lives Matter movement is costing black lives in crime-ridden cities.[...]
Large national organizations like the National Association of State Boards of Education and the American School Counselors Association have already admitted that one of the main purposes of the Common Core standards and the aligned testing is to mold and profile students’ attitudes, beliefs and behavior -- through what’s called social emotional learning (SEL) or “21st Century Skills.” Now, these Common Core-aligned state tests are being accompanied by something new: student mindset and school climate surveys, which are already popping up in several states across the country.[...]
After several long walks in the woods and months of sober self-reflection, Hillary Clinton thinks she has figured out why she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.[...]