A recent Minnesota Senate hearing reignited the debate surrounding the state’s firearm laws and prompted DFL lawmakers to renew their calls for red flag legislation and universal background checks.
Read MoreDay: December 28, 2019
Commentary: The FBI’s Darkest Hour
by Adam Mill One can imagine the unspoken question hanging in the darkness during the January 2017 ride back to the airport. A small gaggle1 of FBI agents had just concluded their long-overdue interview with Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source. The silence must have been deafening. Steele had tried to conceal2 his…
Read MoreMan Arrested in Deadly Hit-and-Run Accident Had Been Deported Six Different Times
The man arrested for a deadly hit-and-run accident in Colorado is not only living in the United States illegally, but has been deported six different times in the past two decades.
Read MoreFree Speech Organization Defends Turning Point USA Group That Was Denied on PA Campus
A nonpartisan free speech group alleged that a Pennsylvania university engaged in viewpoint discrimination when it denied status to a conservative student group.
Read MoreCommentary: The Tortoise and the Hare of Modernity Reconsidered
ot to be overly paradoxical about it, but the names Donald Trump, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler will not appear in this essay. Like you, I am weary of that shrill and unproductive static. Let us, then, take a brief holiday and consider a different sort of problem, a problem that stands behind—admittedly pretty far behind—that static I mentioned and which we might do well to think about. Let us, for lack of a better phrase, call it “Modernity and Its Discontents.”
Read MoreAnalysis: Average Salaries for Professors by Rank
Faculty salaries at public universities vary widely by rank and by institution type. The widest range of salaries occurs at doctoral universities with the highest amount of research activity (like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill or North Carolina State University.)
Read MoreCommentary: Big Tech Censorship Enters Dangerous New Phase
Do non-conforming voices have a prayer against Silicon Valley in November’s critical election? Before the cycle even begins, disturbing new developments show how conservatives and others already may have been marginalized by Big Tech behemoths.
Read MoreEnd of Year Review: National Debt Growth in 2019 Unprecedented, Unsustainable
The national debt in 2019 reached its highest level relative to the size of the economy since 1948, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF) said in its end-of-year review of the national debt.
Read MoreThe Minnesota Sun’s 10 Most Popular Stories of 2019
The dominant conservative storylines of 2019 included the ongoing reports of fraud and corruption at Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, the scandals of Rep. Ilhan Omar, violence in the Twin Cities, and the radical policy proposals passed by the DFL-controlled Minnesota House.
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