An interesting nugget from the big new Pew Research Center poll of the 2016 election: Among voters under age 30, Donald Trump is at 21 percent … and Gary Johnson is at 22 percent. Yes, Trump is in danger of finishing third among young voters — at least according to this one poll. But it’s […]

I wonder if he were to claim “fear for his life” if that would suffice in a jury trial ? KFVS reported: The driver of an SUV hurtled through a group of protesters during a “Black Lives Matters” march in southern Illinois on Sunday, July 10. Demonstrators were blocking traffic along Illinois Route 13 at

A woman who became the first black Miss Alabama triggered a fierce backlash by expressing mixed emotions about the attack that killed five police officers in Dallas. Kalyn Chapman James, who was crowned Miss Alabama in 1993, recorded an emotional video message (above) Sunday morning after leaving church, calling the attacker a “martyr.” In the

Cassandra Hendricks on Twitter 35W Shutdown in Mpls right now!! #Justice4Philando #wakeyourassup

No surprise here. If they are going to raise employees pay by 5%, then they are going to have to increases prices by that much.  Starbucks says it’s increasing prices slightly on brewed coffee, espresso and tea latte beverages. The Seattle-based coffee chain says prices on select sizes of brewed coffee in U.S. company-operated stores

With less than a week until the Republican National Convention, election watchers see an unexpected trend, with voters threatening to jump party lines. The Republican Party is even underfunding its grassroots efforts for the 2016 White House race. In Aurora, Colorado, a diehard Democrat in his 70s is planning to cast his first-ever ballot for

Sources inside the Trump camp are now leaking to the press that Trump has narrowed his selection down to a choice between Newt Gingrich, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and Mike Pence. Of course, it’s entirely possible that the Trump campaign is throwing out intentional misdirection and it ends up being someone completely surprising – and with Trump,

Next week’s GOP convention in Cleveland has raised all the anticipatory angst of a condemned man being led to the gallows. Many GOP regulars are skipping Cleveland entirely. (“I would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend,” says Will Ritter, an up-and-coming Republican digital strategist who worked on the three previous conventions.) And among those

Just as economists promised: raising the minimum wage reduces the number of low-skilled workers hired and retained.  Well done, progressives!  Perhaps one of the more interesting data points from last week’s Employment Report is displayed in the graph above, which shows that the jobless rate for black male teens (aged 16-19 years) increased to 40.1%