Sixty-five percent of likely Republican primary voters support GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s call for barring Muslims from entering the U.S., according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday. More than a third said the controversial proposal “makes them more likely to vote for him,” Bloomberg reports. Trump’s rhetoric did not go over so well with the general public, however, with […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for a second time on a challenge to a race-based admissions policy at the University of Texas. Members of the court’s conservative wing indicated they do not believe affirmative action is necessary — or constitutional, with Justice Antonin Scalia saying it would benefit black college students to attend “a slower-track school where they […]

By Kenric Ward  /  Watchdog Texas San Antonio is short 200 police officers, despite offering hiring bonuses and boosting entry-level pay past $40,000 to bolster its thin blue line. Reasons for the shortage are unclear, as San Antonio’s finest have the second-highest police compensation packages in Texas, right behind big-spending Austin. Rookies in the newest cadet class earn an average […]

3 Texas cities have heaviest taxpayer burdens in US By Kenric Ward  /  Watchdog Texas With billions of dollars in “hidden debt,” three Texas cities have among the heaviest taxpayer burdens in the United States. Dallas, Houston and San Antonio owe a combined $23 billion, according to Truth in Accounting, a think tank that rated government finances in the country’s […]

For those sucking at the tit of the government this conference will feature a wide selection of renewable energy approaches and dialogue for networking all government tit dwellers  among supporters in Tennessee. Their International Renewable Energy Conference will showcase Tennessee, German and Philippine government paid and subsidized renewable energy technologies with compliments from UT. Dear TREEDC Supporter, Our 2nd annual conference is only […]

By LU Staff  / Liberty Unyielding In your pocketbook, that is. Although the president hasn’t mentioned it — possibly because he is unaware of it — nearly two-thirds of Syrian refugees are illiterate. That means that hundreds of thousands of new arrivals to those shores are unequipped to hold down a job. Ludger Woessmann, a professor of economics at the University of Munich, tells German magazine Zeit […]

Our Contradictory Goals in Syria Here’s a list of what we’re trying to do in Syria: Destroy ISIS. 2. Accelerate the removal of Bashar Assad and his regime. 3. Protect innocent civilians. 4. Minimize infrastructure and environmental damage. Part of our problem is that these goals, particularly one and two, are contradictory. ISIS launched an attack in Paris and at […]

Let’s say you are the President of the United States and you have just learned that U.S. Intelligence agencies overseas have found the phone number of Osama Bin Laden’s satellite phone. Osama makes a satellite phone call to a U.S. citizen living in a large metropolitan area like Chicago or New York. At the time of the call nobody is […]

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Wrye feels “the agony of da feet” as teachers tell T.E.A. to take a hike. Nothing like losing nearly 1/5 of your union’s membership in one day to brighten up the Holidays, eh? In a stunning and crippling defeat last week, the Memphis-Shelby Education Association, with over 4,500 members one of the two largest teacher’s union locals in the state, […]

By Walter Olson The current trend in social justice circles is to disapprove of tipping, and not coincidentally wage and hour law has been ratcheting up the pressure on tip-based compensation arrangements, both by curtailing employers’ leeway to count tip income as a credit toward regular wages, and by more intense litigation pressure on tip pooling and similar arrangements. Such […]

From Andrew Collins   /  The Franklin Center It’s bad enough for a local government to use eminent domain to seize personal property, but it’s even worse when that land grab happens immediately through an expedited process known as “quick-take” eminent domain. In public projects involving the “making or repairing” of a road, local government can take possession of a disputed property […]

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his recent call to bar Muslims from entering the U.S., telling MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that it was “common sense” given rising danger from Islamist terrorists. “You should be afraid of the other side, not my side,” Trump said. Experts disagreed, saying Trump was inadvertently giving terrorists a boost. “They love him from […]

By Jeff Woods   /  Nashville Scene Secret Santa is back at UT Update: UT has relieved Vice Chancellor Rickey Hall of his oversight of the Office for Diversity of the Office for Diversity’s website. In an apologetic press release, UTK Chancellor Jimmy Cheek is acknowledging “missteps” in posting those holiday party tips, calls them “poorly worded” and says they “did not […]

By Anna Giaritelli  / Washington Examiner Top Democrats bashed Donald Trump Tuesday for his plan to ban foreign Muslims from entering the country. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has encouraged racists to gain a larger voice in public discourse. “I’ll tell you what does worry me […]

By Paul Bedard  /  Washington Examiner The mother of an injured Army veteran of the Iraq war is selling a rare letter from President Obama to cover her son’s medical and personal expenses despite the president’s handwritten promise to do “everything we can over the next four years to support your family.” Cherry McKimmey told Secrets, “Something good might as […]

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

By Mark Lisheron  /  Watchdog Texas The governor of a state whose pension review board was in the business of studying the actuarial soundness of public retirement systems might be expected to appoint to the board an expert who makes a living doing just that. That governor, Greg Abbott, might also expect officials for some of Texas’ most powerful law […]