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Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year. Gallup began asking this […]

Because ObamaCare is doing so well.  I guess if your boss is paying for your healthcare, you don’t care so much.  Sixty-five percent of Americans are satisfied with the way the healthcare system works for them, down slightly from 67% in 2014. Americans with Medicare, Medicaid and military or veterans’ insurance continue to express the

At least at the local level, you can vote the bums out!  For the past 15 years, Americans have expressed more confidence in their local government than their state government to handle problems. Similar to polls since 2013, about seven in 10 (71%) say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust

So who wins here?  The University of California, Berkeley has announced that it may eliminate free online content rather than comply with a U.S. Justice Department order that it make the content accessible to those with disabilities. The content in question is all free and is for the general public to use. “The department’s findings

In New Jersey, thousands of students languish on waiting lists for charter schools, desperate but unable to leave failing public schools. The main reason? Teachers unions, which have spent of millions of dollars attacking charter schools—and those who support them. Governor Chris Christie recently admitted as much, insisting that union bosses are keeping students trapped in “failure

This is what you get when teachers want to teach, but the political bureaucracy wants them to babysit.  More than 200 teachers quit the Highline district near Seattle this spring,”many saying the new approach to student discipline has created outright chaos,” reports Claudia Rowe in the Seattle Times. Three years ago, Superintendent Susan Enfield eliminated out-of-school suspensions, except for threats to

Mainstreaming students with disabilities (which includes behavioral problems) is the norm in gov’t schools.  “Including” young children with emotional and behavioral disabilities affects the learning and behavior of their non-disabled classmates, researchers conclude. Other students “had more absences, lower math and reading scores in kindergarten and 1st grade, and were more likely to act out in the classroom or struggle

Add a politically correct subtitle to the book of the week in the National Association of Scholars’ contest.

The next president could choose up to five new Supreme Court justices. John Stossel writes: “Gridlock is a feature, not a bug,” says Ilya Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Cato Institute’s Supreme Court Review journal. “The founding system was not to make government more efficient. It was meant to pass policies that have large agreement that’s sustained across

Even The New York Times seems to have had it with campus political correctness, writes Shikha Dalmia. In a recent front page story it painted an unflattering portrait of the comical efforts of Clark and other universities to warn incoming freshmen against microaggressions. But the good news is that Clark may be part of a waning trend given

These laws were clearly passed by people who have never run a business in their lives.  LAS VEGAS — Officials from 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Labor Tuesday over a new rule that would make about 4 million higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay, slamming the measure as inappropriate federal overreach by the

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The future of Wyoming wolf management rides on a federal court hearing set for Friday in Washington, D.C. The hearing before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals comes two years after U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington, D.C., sided with national environmental groups and rejected Wyoming’s wolf

The following Letter to the Editor ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  Thank you, Daily News, for publishing Jeremiah Thompson’s Letter to the Editor (Aug. 23, Volunteers who save lives). I have since been following his blog, Bring to Light, Stories from Latah County. Though I am thankful for the emergency medical service volunteers’ terrific

Residence facilities most popular locale for student crime.  The University of Idaho’s 2016 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report lists alcohol offenses as the highest area of reported crimes involving students both on and off campus. According to the report, released Monday by the UI, 32 students were arrested for violation of liquor laws on

Four members of WSU football players facing potential felony charges Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy said the process of deciding whether or not to prosecute the four members of the Washington State University football team facing felony charges could take several months, meaning the players – some of whom are key contributors to the team

That’s one way to meet your quota.  CAMP LEJUENE — Following the repeal of the ban on transgender service members, a senior Marine Corps officer has revealed that the service has exceeded its female gender quota for Fiscal Year 2016 by forcing select males to identify as females. Col. John Barrett, Chief of Staff of 2nd

What if there wasn’t a one-size-fits-all solution to school discipline? J.D. Tuccille writes: There’s plenty of stupid to go around in public schools with the application of all flavors of discipline policies. The commonality here isn’t lenience or rigidity—it’s the government-run monopoly that still prevails for many Americans, despite growing options. Advocates of educational choice

Taping over or otherwise covering up your computer’s web camera is a “sensible” thing that everyone should do, according to FBI Director James Comey. US spy agencies have had the ability to hack into webcams for years, according to whistleblowers.  Read Full Article

The deadline is December 1. If Congress fails to act, the FBI gains the power to hack and surveil an unlimited number of computers, based on just one warrant from any federal judge. “Rule 41” marks a new line drawn in the cybersecurity-privacy battle.  Read Full Article

Now that’s inconvenient. And not backups, either…. About a quarter of all police body-camera footage stored by the Oakland Police Department was deleted by accident in 2014, according to a sergeant’s testimony in an East Oakland murder trial.  Read Full Article