by The Standard | Aug 29, 2019 | Lawrence W. Reed
It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic...
by The Standard | Aug 29, 2019 | Clara Del Villar
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, seniors are living longer and are the fastest growing demographic in history. Seniors in the U.S. will likely total almost 75 million within a decade. That translates into 20 percent of our population. But age doesn’t determine...
by The Standard | Aug 28, 2019 | Stewart Jones
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” True to that statement, many emotionally-charged politicians —...
by The Standard | Aug 28, 2019 | Edna San Miguel
When Carlos Garcia, Phoenix’s newest City Council Member raised his right hand to take the Oath of Office on June 6th, 2019, his left hand passed over on a landmark of La Raza Aztlan, Chicano History Textbook, instead of a Bible. The name La Raza means The...
by The Standard | Aug 28, 2019 | The Standard
Well, maybe not anymore! Researchers from Britain and the US have identified a genetic mutation that “creates incipient teeth in bird embryos,” according to an article in Science Magazine. Scientists based at the universities of Manchester and Wisconsin...