The Washington Standard

Warning: You May Be Next: 400,000 People Just Had Their Pensions Cut By 50%: “Going to Happen To The Rest Of Pensions in the United States”

The Central State pension fund in Kansas became the first such fund to take advantage of the 2014 law as 400,000 Americans who depend on their monthly pension income to pay for such things as their mortgage, groceries…

Is Mitch McConnell Backtracking on Blocking Obama’s Anti-Gun Supreme Court Nominee?

Senator McConnell said that the next president should get to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat. But he’s now coming under intense pressure to buckle under.

Sheriff Blocks Feds From Harassing Raw Milk Farmer: “Stem the Tide of Federal Overreach”

Sheriff Brad Rogers investigated a complaint from a constituent farmer and found that he sided with his case – there was no justified cause for invasive inspections happening repeatedly since 2011 every couple of weeks. Basically, they were…

US Prisons Nothing More Than Criminal Universities and Crime Corporations

The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in state and Federal prison. With a current inmate population around the size of the entire Houston geographical area, we now basically have a criminal community…

Female Student College Group Demand “Trigger Warnings,” But Stifle Dialogue from Opposing Views

A student group at a fancypants women’s college on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has dedicated a whole wall of its student center to an art installation dedicated to the legitimacy and seriousness of trigger warnings.

Clear and Present Danger!

America, there is no liberal side of the law!  There is mercy to the repentant (Isaiah 66:2).  Outside of that, the Law merely condemns crime; it is not turned to justify crime.  Furthermore, we only have one Constitution!

How Bernie Sanders Can Break Through the “Clinton Firewall” in the South

Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his “Feel the Bern” tour here to Atlanta this week. Sanders, hoping to break through something called the Clinton “firewall.” What is that, and can he do it?