Click here: Real state and local income, sales and property taxes all hit records in 2017, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.
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Lenore Skenazy, President of Let Grow, encourages parents to do what parents have always done: follow basic safety rules, and then let their kids be kids. See what she means in a short 5-minute video.
Click here: Wreckage from the USS Juneau (CL-52) was discovered on Saturday, March 17, 2018. The Juneau was sunk by a Japanese torpedo during the Battle of Guadalcanal, ultimately killing 687 men including all five of the Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa. The ship was found resting on the floor of the South Pacific off the coast of the Solomon Islands.
When asked about their thoughts on a State Called Constitutional Convention:
Justice Antonin Scalia said in 2014, “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention. Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Warren Burger wrote in 1988: [T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.
Click Here: States Likely Could Not Control Constitutional Convention on Balanced Budget Amendment or Other Issues
The south used to vote Democrat. Now it votes Republican. Why the switch? Was it, as some people say, because the GOP decided to appeal to racist whites? Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, explains in a short 5-minute video.
While a student at Columbine High School, Neville watched 12 of his classmates and one teacher lose their lives. “From that point on, I kind of wanted to make a difference.” He explains how in this short 5-minute video.