An entrepreneurship major and graduate of Belmont University, Wes believes that small business, innovation, and creative thinking are required to solve problems and improve our world.
The Obama Era Net Neutrality regulations have officially been repealed this week by the Federal Communications Commission. The changes took effect Monday, much to the chagrin of many Internet content companies, their stakeholders, fans, and supporters. Opponents of the net neutrality rollback say it could cost consumers and content creators
Human Rights Watch has condemned the U.S. policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, following a denouncement of the policy by the U.N. human rights office Tuesday. In a press briefing note from the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations offered
According to a new book by the 44th president's longtime adviser, Benjamin J. Rhodes, shortly after the 2016 elections, Obama wondered aloud to aides in an armed presidential limousine: “What if we were wrong?” But what sounded like a moment of humility turned out to be a prelude
The Two Minutes Hate is from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's the two minutes every day during which members of the ruling English Socialist Party express their hatred for enemies of "the Party," most notably Emmanuel Goldstein. It's a cult-like ritual used
That should be the title of a recent Fast Company article entitled, "How the DNC Is Trying To Prevent A Repeat Of 2016’s Hack." "The committee, along with organizations on both sides of the aisle, is focusing on the basics of cybersecurity as they prepare for
Writes an independent voter in New Castle, Colorado Monday: "If you are a registered Democrat or Republican voter and are fed up with the two major parties, you should register to be an Independent/unaffiliated voter today. No worries, because Colorado now has an open primary system." Oh
On Friday Senator Rand Paul told viewers on Fox Business that yesterday's vote on his balanced budget bill shows which Senate Republicans are really serious about budget responsibility, and which ones are only fiscal conservatives in the abstract, not in practice: "Republicans are, in the abstract, for
On Tuesday, the Democratic and Republican Parties of Pennsylvania nominated candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and the commonwealth's congressional delegation to Washington. Yet 1.1 million independent voters were disenfranchised by closed primaries, which are only open to partisan voters. Nearly half of U.S. states have an
The state elections commission in Delaware claims it just doesn't have the manpower to resolve a dispute after a tiny splinter group recently broke off from the Libertarian Party of Delaware, and confusingly named itself the Libertarian Party of Delaware Inc. Back in February Delaware’s election commissioner
No one could accuse former CIA Director John Brennan of being a peacenik or too soft on the United States' enemies. The lifelong CIA man (he started with the agency as a Mid-East analyst and station chief for 25 years) has faced criticism for overseeing a substantial increase in
In April the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent. That's the lowest it's been since December 2000, after six months at 4.1 percent. But the increase in new hires may have come at the cost of inflation and lower than projected increases
In 2016 the Libertarian Party enjoyed 50-state ballot access for the first time since 1996, and polled higher than any third party had since Ross Perot took the 1992 presidential election by storm on the Reform Party ticket. It was a remarkable year for the LP in its half century