YouTube is currently restricting 21 educational videos from PragerU, a conservative advocacy organization. According to YouTube, videos that are restricted contain vulgar language, violence and disturbing imagery, nudity and sexually suggestive content, and portrayal of harmful or dangerous activities. Videos that fit this description are not available to logged-out users, those who are under 18 […]
Planned Parenthood is about to celebrate its 100th birthday. It’s an odd, and frankly grotesque, commemoration for an organization that is responsible itself for ensuring over 7 million babies will never have the opportunity to celebrate even one birthday. Planned Parenthood was founded on Oct. 16, 1916, by population control advocate Margaret Sanger. Though the […]
By Benjamin Morris | OCT 13, 2016 AT 5:20 PM With the election only weeks away, Hillary Clinton appears to have the lead and the momentum. As of this writing, the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast gives her around an 87 percent chance of winning — up from around 55 percent in late September – and that may […]
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Evan McMullin has named a Jewish running mate, Mindy Finn, JTA reported Tuesday. Finn, 35, is president and founder of Empowered Women, a nonprofit organization that aims to foster discussion of feminism. She has worked on digital operations programs for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and also at Twitter heading […]
Charles Murray | 10/12/2016 It would be difficult and highly unlikely, but it’s certainly possible for computer hackers to change the outcome of next month’s presidential election, experts say. “I’m not sure that a single hacker could do it alone,” Eugene H. Spafford, professor of computer science at Purdue University, told Design News. “But an organized team […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Women’s health advocates have delivered hundreds of condoms to Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s (AY’-ahtz) office in New Hampshire bearing the message “Protect Yourself from Trump.” The delivery from Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund ties together two issues that have landed Ayotte in the news. Last week, her campaign handed […]
Social Security’s benefit structure is so complex that few Americans understand it. There’s a simpler way to provide benefits that also would help to improve the program’s worsening finances. Most Americans don’t understand the rules and details that affect their monthly Social Security retirement benefits, according to a Government Accountability Office report based on data […]
Yet again, the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act has spawned an out-of-touch regulation that could harm millions of Americans. The proposed rule titled “Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans” covers small-dollar loans with terms less than 45 days, as well as certain loans with terms longer than 45 days that have an “all-in” annual percentage […]
Pakistan took a positive step forward last Thursday when it passed legislation to increase the penalties for individuals guilty of committing so-called “honor killings.” Honor killings, the practice of murdering female family members who allegedly brought dishonor upon their family by disobeying them, usually on issues of love or marriage, took the lives of more […]
On Wednesday, September 28, The Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion on “Geopolitics and Economic Development: Assessing the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.” The discussion focused on the economic viability of the proposed $46 billion China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), security concerns impacting CPEC, and the geopolitical and geostrategic implications of the formation of an economic corridor linking […]
