Category Archives: Students

Utah’s Epic Earth Day Fail

Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 by Cindy Rose

What do you get when your state officials declare there is no such thing as climate change? You get “celebrations” of earth day that require kids to pay homage to Big Oil. Think Progress reports on Utah’s “state-sponsored Earth Day … Continue reading →

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Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“…men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.” –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America In 2007, a teenager in a depressed county of Northeastern Pennsylvania, recently bereft of … Continue reading →

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Vetting Paul Ryan, Part 4: Ready To Lead Who Exactly?

Posted on Friday, August 17, 2012 by Cindy Rose

This final installment of the series looks at how a Paul Ryan Commander in Chief would affect the various voting blocs that make up the country; the Vice President is after all supposed to be “ready on day one” to … Continue reading →

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The Citadel No Place For Schlafly’s Vitriolic Garbage

Posted on Friday, April 6, 2012 by Cindy Rose

Phyllis Schlafly recently appeared as a guest speaker at the Citadel as part of a  lecture series for a new course oxymoronically titled “Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America”. If The Citadel’s intent is to set themselves back decades, or fan … Continue reading →

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Occupy Dallas protestor pushed off 4 foot planter, police officer covers own ass

Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Doug Marquardt

On Saturday, November 5th, eight people were arrested at an Occupy Dallas protest after a Dallas Police officer assaulted a protester and a riot broke out. That’s the truth, but the officer told this story: After being directed to get … Continue reading →

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Bachmann says she would ‘not do anything’ for children of illegal immigrants

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Ashley Grof

Michele Bachmann entered an extended exchange with a college student (who was a democrat) over how to handle the immigrants who are brought to the U.S. illegally as children. After finishing a speech that focused in part on repealing the … Continue reading →

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Executive Orders – Its about time

Posted on Monday, October 31, 2011 by Doug Marquardt

I, for one, am ecstatic to see the President bypassing the do-nothing Congress with an Executive Order a week as part of his “We Can’t Wait” campaign. As a former college student who paid off massive student loans, I was … Continue reading →

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